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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me, Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people Living in the world agree, There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted, there is Still a chance that they will see, There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, Whisper words of wisdrom, let it be.
And when the night is cloudy, There is still a light that shines on me, Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
THE BEATLES: Let It Be UK LP, RARE FIRST UK PRESSING.
BOTH THE RECORD AND COVER WERE EXCLUSIVELY MADE FOR INCLUSION IN THE Let It Be BOX SET, ISSUED 8th MAY, 1970.
IT WAS NOT SOLD INDEPENDENTLY OF THE LIMITED EDITION BOX AND THEREFORE ALSO A LIMITED EDITION COVER AND RECORD.
I always identify the pressing and individuality of very first pressing that were genuinely exclusive, but this goes the extra mile by being unplayed and in true Mint condition.
Last week I sold an equally stunning very first pressing of Abbey Road and this was bought from the same one owner, he would not part with the Let It Be Box Set and book and that gives me the opportunity to offer the very special and unique album.
The cover was stored inside the Box Set and this is precisely what an unplayed cover with the red Apple logo looks like after 47 years without being handled or used.
As I remark with every early 1970 pressings with the green Apple logo covers, laying flat in the Box could not prevent a record impression forming, the ultra slim spine design saw to that, but gravity affects horizontal and vertical cardboard and lamination exactly the same.
With that made clear, this an absolutely stunning unused condition red Apple logo cover, like the Abbey Road cover with the misaligned Apple logo from 1967, I am proud to offer this album, not forgetting an unused, Mint- authentic EMI inner sleeve for the very first pressing of the Beatles final album , the wonderful, Let It Be.
As I will not be playing this extremely rare unplayed -2U/-2U , very first pressing for the Box Set release, I can take longer over the pressing info.
Personally Let it Be has always generated great fascination and a massive collecting of unofficial and official material, never before and obviously never again, did the Beatles ever perform such a variety of music from the past, present, and as this is now 2017 and interest will never decrease now......music for the future.
For the immediately following standard Let It Be records with green Apple logo covers.
that were sold in record shops, I always tend to give the correct numerical maitrix for identication purposes, technically there can be -2U/-3U or -3U /-2U depending which side had the digit increase.
It makes no difference at all because as long as one side is still on the very first pressing only -2U , the next increase was moved up to to the next indexing ending digits, -3U / -3U.
I will repeat this in capital letters for the emphatic effect necessary to confound those who choose to manipulate the historic release of Let It Be.
The final Beatles UK album issued just before they disbanded, should not be subject of those without morals.
For anyone new to all this, it might sound very complicated, not at all, as easy as 2 , 3 or I should say -2U/-3U.
All will be explained below in an easy to understand history of the first UK pressings of the Let It Be album.
THESE Let It Be BOX SET LP COVERS HAD A RED APPLE LOGO ON THE BACK COVER, THE RECORD HAS THIS A MAITRIX ENDING OF -2U /-2U.
REGARDLESS OF THE RIDICULOUS CLAIMS OF THOSE SWAPPING RECORDS AROUND, WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTIONS, THE RED APPLE LOGO COVER AND -2U /-2U RECORDS WERE INDEED EXCLUSIVE TO THE BOX SET, ACCOMPANYING THAT, THIS RECORD HAS A POSITIVELY DARK GREEN LABEL ON SIDE 1.
THE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING RECORDS MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE NON BOX SET ONLY, THE VERY FIRST MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE Let It Be ALBUM ONLY RELEASE.
ALSO WITH THE SAME DARK GREEN APPLE LABEL, WITH ONE DIGIT INCREASE ONLY TO SIDE 1: -2U / -3U or -3U /-2U The above was written to make it as simple as possible, a numerical rise on the second side s maitrix followed a logical sequence from the pair of individual first pressings.
Yes, you CAN have two individual first pressings, that is no different to today, Limited Edition releases include extra tracks, DVD s and even a complete extra bonus CD.
Vinyl cannot be made like cloned CD s and a numerical indexing allows every successive pressing for the rest of 1970 to be placed exactly in the long sequence, only the actual first release was very complex.
As I sell individual 1970 UK Let It Be pressings I carefully unravel the seemingly unfathomable, first of all, the two individual first pressings are simplicity itself to identify, they alone shared exactly the same dark green Apple labels on Side 1.
From the late 1960 s, as found on the two previous UK domestically released Beatles Apple albums, The White Album Abbey Road.
They alone can be correctly named as Very First Pressings due to unusual events, the whole manufacturing cycle began with a red Apple logo cover, exclusive to the Let It Be Box Set.
The whole point is, EMI did not allow the printers making the non Box set LP covers, or their pressing plant making records for them, to stand idle with a brand new Beatles album being released and a film being premiered.
Printed items had to be made in advance of the release of low selling titles, for an anticipated instant No.1 Beatles album, full scale, round the clock manufactured before the release date, now for the first cover complication, I have fairly recently written about the first covers with a green Apple logo.
There is no questioning one first pressing of Let It Be in the UK, nothing could be more identifiable than a Box Set with a book, an exclusive red Apple logo on the back of the LP cover and a -2U / -2U maitrix ending.
Strictly speaking all standard record and cover releases that followed the Box Set s deliberately earliest lone release, are later pressings, but that s too ridiculous for words.
A May release pushed the release into the fifth month of the year and close to the half way point of the year for the 1970 originals with green Apple logo covers.
Better to document the May to December, 1970 originals and accept the complex and unique release of the final Beatles album in the UK, a sequence I know back to front and have regularly detailed on ebay.
Apart having from the distinction of being the very first green Apple logo cover and record to follow the Box Set, no other 1970 original pressing had so many unique features, than the first pressings made for the Box Set s red Apple logo, and the 2U / 3U first pressing for the genuine very first green Apple logo covers.
Essential to a UK Beatles collection, alongside the Box Set, the first green Apple logo -2U / -3U pressing belongs there, that includes in my own Beatles collection.
In fairness, I have other originals from 1970, I love the four identifiable features of the - 3U /- 4 pressing, another item is an EMI 1970 promo inner sleeve among other EMI pictured LP covers, they re-promoted unsold Let It Be Box Sets around the autumn of 1970.
I made that point in a previous description and EMI wanted extra quality for the - 3U /- 4 records, with unused 1960 s quality, shape and spine design, what could better quality than the covers that were considered for all of the very first -2U / -2U pressings for the Limited Edition Box Set version of Let It Be.
I will make further comparisons to the only other Let It Be pressing I have encountered in this rare pointed spine, shaped cover.
Regardless of the first red Apple logo or the first green Apple logo covers, the May, 1970 inner sleeves were not promotional but a similar design first introduced for the 1966 first pressings of Revolver.
Curved corners without a die-cut centre and thick, slightly textured paper, the only printing was on the front bottom rim, a Patent Number and Made In Gt.
Britain/England.
Move along a few months and the EMI Promo inner sleeve for 1970 EMI albums....included among the double sided maroon tinted colour pictures of LP covers and catalogue numbers, the Let It Be Box Set had this text printed underneath: PXS 1 record in presentation box with book LET IT BE THE BEATLES The last time a PXS 1 catalogue number appeared in print was the April, 1970 music press announcing the release of Let It Be as a box set with the As Nature Intended text.
Even if this new design of EMI s promo inner sleeve had been printed in May, all the previously issued red green Apple logo cover records, were in plain white inner sleeves for every lower maitrix than the - 3U /- 4 records.
I have consistently sold that pressing when trading at record fairs and then after 2001, while on ebay.
Was this just a coincidence around August,1970? I think not, in May not all of the expensive Box Sets with a 59/11d price tag had been sold and EMI were keen to sell them while the demand for the album was still very high.
If not, why print the picture and make sure it included the Box Set s unique PXS 1 catalogue number, along with enticing text that was purely promotional, record in presentation box with book about three months after the initial release date? That inner sleeve type was not printed when Let It Be was first released, but in the latter part of 1970, no other EMI records existed with this type as early as May, because it was not available until the late summer.
Right, onto the comprehensive details of the red Apple logo cover and the very first EMI pressing of Let It Be.
DARK GREEN APPLE LABEL: PCS 7096.
MAITRIX: YEX 773 - 2U / YEX 774 - 2U.
Available to view in close-up pictures, is the indexing of the one and only, authentic Let It Be pressing made exclusively for the UK Box Set s red Apple logo cover.
EMI STAMPING CODES: CDR unstamped digit at 9 o clock / GMO 1 G I fully expected this to be unstamped at 3 o clock, exactly as I have found on several -2U / -2U pressings.
G signified 1 at 3 o clock and was regularly machine stamped to represent the first mother.
AS DETAILED EARLIER ORIGINAL 1970 EM I/ APPLE INNER SLEEVE IN UNUSED MINT- CONDITION.
As usual, pictured to see the virtually unaged, outstanding condition and the unique shape.
VERY FIRST ISSUE ONLY, FULLY LAMINATED, UNIQUELY SHAPED COVER, THE FIRST PRINTED WITH A RED APPLE LOGO ON THE BACK.
THE COVER IS TOTALLY UNWORN AND THAT INCLUDES THE EDGES, THE SPINE AND ALL FOUR CORNERS, THE DELUXE LAMINATE IS STILL AS DEEPLY GLOSSY AS IT WAS IN 1970.
THE COLOURS OF THE FRONT ARTWORK ARE EQUALLY UNAFFECTED BY TIME, UNFADED AND VIVIDLY BRIGHT, A REALLY BEAUTIFUL UNCREASED, PERFECTLY STORED RARITY.
The cover in absolutely stunning, beautiful gleaming condition, I do not have an item of wear to describe, the only thing I can offer is a natural event that affects every cover ever made in every decade.
the record s impression and a few tiny related edge laminated lines.
The unique shape is like two separate suspension supports, due to how the corners slope down to create a pointed shape.
As I explained, unique to this pressing because of the shape of the very thin spine, that creates the distintive slope, from the centre of the cover, outwards and down towards the four corners.
The red logo covers and only the very first with the green logo, have that shape, this is like second nature to me, putting details in straight forward, easily identifiable formats does simplify the minutest but very telling differences.
The shape and spine design are distinctive without even looking at the Box Set s red Apple cover, why that shape? Well, the same applied to the first issue only Abbey Road cover in 1969, my conclusion is 1969 was the end of flipback edge covers.
EMI instructed Garrod Lofthouse to experiment with a new design and after the initial first batches were made for the first red green Apple logo covers then, economics enforced a standard design.
The various 1970 Abbey Road covers were undergoing the same scenario, but Let It Be was much more complex due to being a Limited Edition Box Set version.
This just happens to be an unused example and the main consistent feature of the first red Apple logo cover, is the sheer quality of the thick, deluxe deeply glossy lamination and the deeply toned colours on the four Beatles pictures.
The deluxe laminate on the back and front is like new, ultra glossy, the colours are the same original deep and rich tones.
All to describe for grading, is the naturally formed record shape impression during 47 years, including a few minor related tiny laminate edge lines.
I never find it easy grading a beautiful cover with all four corners, the edges and the spine in as perfect condition as it gets.
The later 1970 s decade covers are hard enough to find without any defects, let alone the much rarer shape, which also made the first edition covers vulnerable to wear and severe creases.
For such remarkable condition, I should never grade this under Mint- but there is little difference between Near Mint and Mint-, I cannot include a record impression when this never left the Box Set until I bought it THE UNAVOIDABLE RECORD IMPRESSION CANNOT BE AVOIDED, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST PRESSING VINYL IN THE FIRST RED AND GREEN Apple LOGO COVERS.
THEY WERE MASSIVELY THICK AND HEAVYWEIGHT AND BEING UNUSED, THERE IS ONLY ONE POSSIBLE GRADING FOR SUCH A BEAUTIFUL COVER, NEAR MINT CONDITION.
THE RECORD HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED, THE TEXTURED LABEL DO NOT HAVE ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES.
THERE ARE NO SCRATCHES OR MARKS AND ANY FACTORY HANDLING COMES UNDER THE NEAR INVISIBLE VARIETY, THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION.
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SIDE 1 Two Of Us Dig A Pony Across The Universe I Me Mine Dig It Let It Be Maggie Mae SIDE 2 I ve Got A Feeling One After 909 The Long And Winding Road For You Blue Get Back John Lennon: vocals rhythm guitar lead guitar - Get Back lap steel guitar - For You Blue acoustic guitar - Two Of Us , Across The Universe Maggie Mae six-string bass guitar - Dig It , Let It Be The Long And Winding Road Paul McCartney: vocals bass guitar piano - For You Blue , Dig It , Let It Be The Long And Winding Road acoustic guitar - Two Of Us Maggie Mae Hammond organ - I Me Mine electric piano - I Me Mine George Harrison: vocals, lead rhythm guitars acoustic guitar - For You Blue I Me Mine tamboura - Across The Universe six-string bass guitar - Two Of Us Maggie Mae Ringo Starr: drums percussion George Martin - producer maracas on Dig It Linda McCartney - backing vocals on Let It Be Billy Preston - electric piano on I ve Got A Feeling , One After 909 Get Back Hammond organ - Dig It , Let It Be , The Long And Winding Road Across The Universe Originally Recorded, February 1968 At Abbey Road.
The Album Was Recorded January 1969, At Twickenham Film Studios Apple Studios.
Overdubs - March April 1970 Glyn Johns - sound engineer mixing for the originally titled Get Back LP tapes.
Alan Parsons - assistant sound engineer.
Phil Spector - producer, post production of orchestral choir overdubs and final mixing.
Few UK Beatles albums as first issues had straight forward releases, the sheer scale of the sales and manufacturing added to the creation of many, many variations, to the records being pressed and to the printed material, the labels, inner sleeves and covers, plus where inserts etc.
were applicable.
I find myself in the position of constantly detailing the most intricate, finite identification points of individuals copies, what often appears to be a very confusing volume of closely connected pressings, is in reality, easily placed in the precise position it occupied in the extremely long chain.
Chain is the best analogy to use for something that can be logically examined, because everything printed and pressed were individual links and they originated at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of manufacturing process.
Let It Be was re-issued throughout the 1970 s decade and every step away from May,1970, saw gradual to enormous changes, from the original very dark green colour Apple labels, to the vinyl thickness and obviously the quality of the covers.
Let It Be became the last ever Beatles album released, making it the most historically significant of them all for multiple reasons.
Some bands released albums as they broke up and fans had the chance to see them on farewell tours but the news the Beatles had broken up was given on the 10th May, 1970.
Let It Be had been released the day before on the 9th May, but as a Box Set only, I will never forget how one of the UK s most respected music papers, New Musical Express, reviewed it, a truly brilliant piece of writing that summed up the sadness we all felt when buying and first seeing the Let It Be Box Set, the review in NME named the box, A Cardboard Tombstone.
During their meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide fame the Beatles had turned the 1960 s decade into a magical journey, altering the very conception of music and even society itself.
Cracks and tensions among the four rapidly maturing individuals appeared during the recording of the White Album , songs were being recorded solo for the first time by all four, Ringo walked out at one point, that individuality of the Fab Four had grown to such an extent, that could have easily become the final album.
Late on in 1968, they decided to take a fresh approach to recording, brought about by the sense of finality among them, deciding to dispense with how they had previously worked in a studio, without the endless volumes of overdubbing and large productions.
To re-create a fading unity, they formed an extraordinary idea to play a live set for the first time in three years, arranging for the event to be filmed, including all of the rehearsals, the song writing process and the time spent learning the new material.
After the New Year of 69, on the 2nd January they arrived at Twickenham film studios with a film crew in place to record every second.
The venue for their live set was the biggest stumbling block, North London s Roundhouse in Chalk Farm was originally planned for the 18th January, but that was soon dropped because none of them wanted to just perform conventionally on a stage.
So they sat down to discuss ideas and it was almost agreed to try the most exotic settings, extremes like Saudi Arabia in desert, Russia was another option and to even sail out to sea on a cruiser, then as the sun rose at dawn behind them, they would begin performing the latest songs while it was filmed and recorded.
Maybe for any other artists, that would have been arrogance to not have songs pre-written, but this was the Beatles and with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison to call on, collectively, this was still the greatest songwriting trio ever to grace a band.
I sincerely believe Let It Be is vastly underrated and for the songs alone, this album is just about the finest representation of their true genius.
They all rather liked the idea about filming a set at dawn on a ship, then George strongly objected and it appeared like the whole attempt at renewing their creative unity would fail, the Let It Be film contains how close that was.
After only six days on the 8th January, George had a bust up with Paul over such a simple guitar arrangement and he walked out and it looked like the film was over, Lennon even quipped, Let s get Clapton in.
All I have written here has been listened to, word for word, from very lengthy intensive discussions, plus good natured humour.
Everything above is preserved on bootlegs taken directly from the camera s sound tape reels, the conversations and dates are a true diary of the whole of January, 1969, collecting them has been a little hobby /obsession of mine for 45 years Eventually they found a compromise all four were comfortable with, the roof top of the Apple building in Saville Row, London was agreed on, for the first and the last time, a Beatles live set was recorded and included on an album and a film with the brand new songs as they evolved.
To offset being unable to overdubb the basics of keyboards, Apple artist Billy Preston was brought in, the film contained unique performances, then there is some amazing unofficial footage The full month s rehearsals contained a real treasure trove of new performances, including a huge chunk of what would next become the Abbey Road LP, only a tiny fraction made it onto the LP and into the film.
To me this always was and always will be a really fascinating part of the Beatles legend, I would by far prefer to continue with the recordings made for such an amazing album, the need for accurate details about those initial pressings can always use some first hand knowledge.
Like my fellow obsessive Beatles collector s, once you have nailed down every second of the month long recordings and dialogues, that even included sandwiches and tea breaks, Let It Be records, covers and maitrix are simplicity itself.
So here is, all you need to know about the May,1970, UK Let It Be first issues.
The first to reach UK record shops was the Let It Be box set, a few weeks were allowed to pass to encourage sales of the more expensive package with a book included, priced at 59/11 , which was a penny under three pounds.
The first standard album not in the box set was this, the first ever green Apple logo cover pressing priced approximately, Two pounds five shillings 45/- .
The difference in costs really told in the late 1960 s - May,1970.
As the very first standard UK issue pressed this can be rather confusing, not surprising when technically a second pressing can also be named...a first pressing Let It Be was a long time coming,16 long months after the recording and filming were finished, the variations in the first year of the eventual release are many and could be very complex.
Thanks to EMI / Apples s meticulous indexing system that is actually straight forward, as EMI used the ending digits of maitrix numbers to signify further pressings, it becomes very easy to place any of the many originals to the month and even the 1970 year of release in their precise sequence.
The cover underwent many changes in in the design and shape,I will give a full history to accurately place the pressing into the correct context, because the first pressing was only in the box set, that is a fixed point everything else followed.
All consequent 1970 pressings are shrouded in uncertainty, after all, they made up the unbelievable volume of copies pressed and bought, directly after what should be rightly regarded as being a limited edition, because so few box sets were made.
That is true about the background to this first green Apple logo cover s record, because I long ago concluded the red Apple logo cover records were given set numbers to press, but so were the first green logo records and that is why both with the maitrix I gave above are also rare today.
Lower maitrix numbers of all pressings immediately following the box set, were still bought in the late spring /early summer of 1970, this year is the 47th Anniversary of Let It Be.
I do not agree with anyone who names these first green Apple logo covers as re-issues , utter nonsense, because the sheer volume necessary to meet the demand, saw those being actively bought as the latest Beatles album The very nature of the ultra extremely Let It Be Box Sets, took every single one of the early 1970 issues into an area of being technically re-pressings but reality is not a slave to technicalities.
You walked into a British record shop in late May, 1970 and asked for and bought Let It Be as an album only, you had to be there much earlier to buy a Box Set version, providing you got there immediately after EMI delivered them For records I always differentiate between a first pressing and a very first pressing , this album and say the black gold Please Please Me LP, or the red label single of the same title have such positive visual differences.
Very first UK pressings and the covers printed for Let It Be were made exclusively for the Box Set, the unique first cover with a red Apple logo on the back, was positively never separately sold in record shops without the Box Set, along with the Get Back book.
This record is also very rare for being in astounding condition, the massively heavyweight, deep grooved record is gleaming with that very special glossy sheen of mint vinyl, the unplayed status will be preserved.
A really beautiful looking record, combining an extremely rare Beatles very first pressing with an exclusive cover with a red Apple logo on the back.
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