February 03, 2003

Music: Let it Be Better

This one is for me: Rapidly-fading-in-stature music mag Rolling Stone is reporting (in an ongoing torrent of Beatles-related news) that the final Beatle record "Let It Be" will be released without the bloated string arrangements added after the band abandoned the project to the hands of gun-nut wall-of-sound producer Phil Spector. Pitchfork Media has a nice piece on it, which we'll point to since RS has been so stinky of late (like since 1997). Spector's strings, long-derided by Beatles fans and Paul McCartney, will be lifted out of the title track, "Across the Universe" and, of course, "The Long and Winding Road."

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