McCartney Times

Although Paul McCartney had his criticisms with Phil Spector’s production on Let It Be, John Lennon felt sufficiently happy with the results to hire the American producer for Plastic Ono Band and Imagine.

Lennon was critical of George Martin, as was clear from his conversations with Jan Wenner, and found Spector more amenable to work with as a solo artist. George Harrison was also reluctant to work with Martin again, feeling that the producer undervalued him as a creative thinker. “I was always rather beastly to George,” Martin told Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation author, Philip Norman.

Harrison was anxious to work with Spector, having stockpiled nearly 30 songs for a solo album. And unlike The Beatles producer, Spector was overwhelmed by the maturity, the majesty and the diversity of the material presented to him. “It was endless,” Spector recalled. “He had literally hundreds of songs and each one was better than the rest. He had all this emotion built up when it was released to me”.

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