The Beatles "Let It Be" Box Set Apple PXS 1 UK 1st 1970 2U/2U red apple + book
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The Beatles ? "Let It Be" Apple Records ?PXS 1(PCS 7096) UK 1st press Limited Edition Limited Edition Vinyl, LP, issued in a Box Set with a 164 page book.
A complete original 1st UK set of the excellent 1970 album (PXS 1, PCS 7096 red apple LP). The record is in great clean excellent condition with only a couple of very light and wispy surface marks. The sleeve is in excellent condition with some light edge-wear. The vinyl is housed in the British Patent inner. The inner tray is in very good condition with a light tear at the bottom. The book is in great shape with minimal signs of wear. The 'holding' tray is very good with some creases. The outer box is also in very good condition with some edge-wear and a small paper tear on the top right edge. Matrix / Runout (Run-out etching: A-Side): YEX 773 - 2U Matrix / Runout (Run-out etching: B-Side): YEX 774 - 2U
The official catalogue number of this box set is PXS 1, however the LP sleeve and the record itself carried the standard catalogue number PCS 7096. The original box set LP sleeve had a Red Apple Logo on the reverse, which was replaced with the standard Green Apple for the later non box set. The box set was deleted in December 1970 and replaced with normal LP format, without the book. This is an original, with a Red Apple logo.
"Let It Be" is the Beatles' twelfth and final studio album. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group's break-up. Like most of the band's previous releases, it was a number one album in many countries, including both the US and the UK, and was released in tandem with the motion picture of the same name.
The album was conceived as Get Back, a return to the Beatles' earlier, less complicated approach to music. It was recorded and projected for release before their album "Abbey Road" (1969); for this reason, some critics and fans, such as Mark Lewisohn, argue that "Abbey Road" should be considered the group's final album and "Let It Be" the penultimate. Rehearsals began at Twickenham Film Studios in January 1969 as part of a planned documentary showing the Beatles preparing to return to live performance. A project instigated by Paul McCartney, the filmed rehearsals were marked by ill-feeling, leading to George Harrison's temporary departure from the group. As a condition of his return, the Beatles reconvened at their own Apple Studio, where they completed the recordings with the help of guest musician Billy Preston.
Following several rejected mixes by Glyn Johns, a new version of the album was produced by Phil Spector in March–April 1970. While three songs from the sessions were released as singles before the album's release, "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" and "Let It Be", the songs were remixed by Spector for the album and "Don't Let Me Down" was not included.
In a retrospective review, Richie Unterberger of AllMusic described "Let It Be" as the "only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews", but felt that it was "on the whole underrated". He singles out "some good moments of straight hard rock in 'I've Got a Feeling' and 'Dig a Pony'", and praises "Let It Be", "Get Back", and "the folky 'Two of Us', with John and Paul harmonising together". Despite a mixed review from Rolling Stone at the time of its release, the album was ranked number 86 in the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003 but was moved down to number 392 in the 2012 version.
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