McCartney Times

When it comes to the titular track on The Beatles’ parting effort, John Lennon was always strongly dismissive.“That’s Paul,” he bemoaned. “What can you say? Nothing to do with The Beatles. It could’ve been Wings. I don’t know what he’s thinking when he writes ‘Let It Be’.”In essence, his gripe was that the band were revolutionaries who once said that they were bigger than Jesus, and yet their closing remark was defined by a quasi-religious ballad that had more to do with hymns than Hendrix and the psychedelia they had stirred up with the likes of Sgt Pepper.“We were going through hell,” Lennon commented at the time in an interview with Howard Smith that wasn’t uncovered until 2013, and ‘Let It Be’ proved a little too heavenly for his money. Yet, that dichotomy was always part of the magic of the band. Thanks to the patchwork makeup of the members, the music they produced was an equally indefinable affair.

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