10 Classic Albums With Glaring Errors
3. Let It Be - The Beatles
The Beatles had really come into their own as a studio creation by the late ‘60s. Even though the band’s beginnings were as a nice bar band playing around Liverpool, their frenzied audience forced them off the road and into the studio, where they made some of the biggest reinventions in recorded music.
As the band started arguing though, their attempt to get back to their roots ended up finally splitting them up.
It seems apocryphal to call an album that has a song like “Let It Be” on it a mistake, but the entire project still feels like it’s half-finished. Initially thought up as a more organic recording, none of the band could get on the same page for any of the songs, leading the sessions to grind to a halt.
Wanting to wash their hands of everything, the band assembled the tapes and gave them to engineer Glyn Johns to make a record out of, which ended up being a disaster.
However, the band did reassemble and eventually released Abbey Road as the definitive end to their discography, but the release of Let It Be just a year later felt like a somber final note from the greatest pop band of all time. With some of the band’s best songs being put next to impromptu jams and older material, Let It Be is an album that would have made for phenomenal EPs and singles rather than a full album of material.