🍏 GEORGE MARTIN on The Beatles' LET IT BE album 🍏

One of the great lines of all time by George Martin: "Produced by George Martin - over-produced by Phil Spector".

“Overproduced by Phil Spector“… George really nailed it

The last words are pure gold

George Martin always spoke the truth. No exaggeration, no slanting the story his way. It was always the truth of how things went when George spoke. A brilliant man. The Beatles would have never had the success they had without him. He was the only true 5th Beatle.

"None of your production rubbish" John said to George Martin. It was George Martin's "production rubbish" that made songs like "Strawberry Fields Forever' and "I am The Walrus" unforgettable. It made "A Day In The Life" and the whole second side of "Abbey Road" super unforgettable. John was a great songwriter but as a person he was a bit of an a-hole. Didn't like to acknowledge greatness in others. That's why he pissed on Paul most of the time. He always felt threatened. The I'm just a jealous guy type.

Sir George was a suave and good looking cove when he was young… it doesn’t surprise me that he was given a screen test for James Bond. A brilliant producer, of course.

Sometimes George Martin is my favorite Beatle.

The Let It Be Naked album is a real improvement over the original Let It Be (which I bought on vinyl and enjoyed when it first came out). The Naked album seems more cohesive as a finished product, plus it is more true to the stripped down concept The Beatles originally agreed to for the album, without the Spector embellishments and the odd little bits like Maggie Mae and the snippet of Dig It, which are replaced, as they should have been originally, by Don't Let Me Down, one of the best songs from those sessions.

It took a guy this cool to go out on a limb and bring us the greatest band in the world.

Interesting how John didn’t want any “production rubbish” and yet was ok with Spector’s sappy work.

Great interview with George Martin. I never knew the whole story behind let it be, and why Spector got involved. It showed real cracks in the beatles then when John wanted to do things differently. George Martin had lost control so it was in danger of trashing beatle quality, and in a way this happened with Let it be. Thank God they all got back together in unity to do Abbey Road, which showed team beatles at it it's best. They were becoming so divergent by then it doesn't look like another classic beatles album would have been possible anyway.

I bought this album the day it came out and found it as exciting as the rest of the Beatles' albums. I never stopped to think about Martin or Spector, they were the Beatles and that was enough, for me it was pure emotion.

The Phil Spector original Let it Be album is what I was brought up with. I've never had any problems with it. Naked is fine, but I kinda like the Spector orchestra production and all his over dub bits.

Let it Be Naked really got me to start liking that album again. It was always down near the bottom of my fav list, along with the Movie. Now it’s in my top five to listen to. Cheers to Paul, Ringo and Giles to get that version produced and back to its roots. I just wish it wasn’t a “boutique” album. They should have made it an official release. Glad I got the vinyl before it skyrocketed in price.

Sir George Martin always told the truth! Spector was not necessary at all!

That last line is pure gold.

Notice that George said there were fights during the recording. The Beatles arguments have been edited out of the “Get Back” film. Specifically what happens on the Blu-ray between 1:34:00 and 1:36:00 on Disc 1, Chapter 6. We see the Director Hogg say that this may be the last filmed Beatle show. Ringo responds that he is only saying that because he has just been watching the Beatles arguing. But Ringo says it may not be their last show because the Beatles have been arguing “for the last 18 months.” Right after that we find out that John and Paul have had a big argument. But we DO NOT SEE any of that. All we see comes a few minutes later when George quits the group. We do not see WHY George quits; we just see him walk off. Did George and John trade punches over Yoko? Did George get really mad at Paul? We still do not know because all of the Beatle arguing has been edited out. But we know it really happened because the Beatles have told us these sessions left a sour taste in their mouth for years. And George Martin here just confirmed it.

I remember buying the original vinyl release of Let it Be back in the 70s and remember the Apple press notes at the back of the cover which said something like "this is a new phase Beatle recording.." What a con job that was from Apple. They knew the Beatles was over by then in May 1970. As of the album produced by Phil Spector --- it is what it is -- not great but not bad either. I don't know how George Martin could ever have made it sound any better as good as he was.

This explains so much about everything in the Let It Be documentary. Nice summary

I read in a comment section elsewhere that previous to recording Let it Be, the New York Times ran a story saying George Martin was the real mastermind behind the Beatles. Martin said at the time that although flattered by the article, it was absolutely untrue. However the damage had been done, and the Beatles (immaturely in my opinion) took umbrage at this and froze him out. It was only for Abbey Road that he was given back his role in the driver's seat.