10 Albums Saved By Ridiculously Last Minute Changes
5. Phil Spector Puts Together The Beatles' Swansong - Let It Be
With almost a decade of shaping rock music to look back on, the Beatles were reaching the end of the line at the end of the 60's. In a last ditch effort to get the band back on the same page, Paul McCartney proposed making a no-nonsense rock record that would be focused on songs rather than lavish production.
From the word go, the sessions stalled with the Fabs struggling to find the right sounds for each song. Ultimately, the band decided to abandon the project and work on Abbey Road, but eventually acquiesced when the record company needed one more record. Not wanting to continue working together any further, most of the tapes from the sessions were brought to Glyn Johns and Phil Spector with the intent that they would make a record out of the fragments.
What finally surfaced in 1970 was Let It Be, which stands as the jagged swan song to the Beatles' stellar 60's run. Though Spector brought in his signature broad production style, McCartney expressed particular distaste to the treatment of his songs, and eventually released his own version of the album decades later. Regardless of its slapdash recording style, Let It Be is still an impressive feat given the Beatles' massive internal dysfunction.