10 Rock Albums That You Were Never Supposed To Hear

For a band that was all about peace and love in their heyday, the end of the Beatles was marred by a lot of ugliness. After the White Album barely left the group on speaking terms with each other, Paul McCartney tried to extend an olive branch by making an album of straight up rock and roll without any of the extra bells and whistles. According to the legend, these sessions went so bad that the band decided to shelf it and go make Abbey Road, which became their last great artistic statement...or was it?

Yeah, so as it turns out, those sessions ended up coming in handy once the Fabs realized that they owed one more record to their label, culminating in Let It Be. Though there is a lot of jaded beauty to be found here, a lot of these were considered odds and ends thrown together with miscellaneous singles the group were writing at the time. Instead of the traditional joyous moments in the studio, this was assembled by producer Glyn Johns from the scraps left over from the Get Back sessions.

Even with the more half-hearted performances, these lead to some of the most interesting moments in the group's catalog, from the acoustic folk tune Two of Us to every single second of The Long and Winding Road, whose Phil Spector-arranged orchestra pissed off Paul McCartney to no end. With yet another iteration of these tapes being put out in the early '00s, Let It Be is the one album in the Beatles' catalog that cannot get any peace.