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"Let It Be"
The Beatles

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"Let it Be", the title track from the troubled documentary on The Beatles in studio. The Phil Spector post production was not a hit with Paul McCartney.

The Beatles Song facts

Composers
Paul McCartney

Genre
Pop

Album  
Let It Be

Year of Release  
1970

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Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett brings bel canto to the Beatles.
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85%
Joan Baez
7%
Leo Sayer
3%
Gladys Knight and The Pips
3%
Lesley Garrett
2%

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... evocative and yet strangely compelling and haunting ...

David Thomson, Stockport
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