Let It Be
	Produced by George Martin
	Released on March 6, 1970
	UK CHART POSITION #2 . . . US CHART POSITION #1 (charted Mar. 21, 1970 for 14 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
2764 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

F or those who lichen’d the Beatles to a religious experience, let it be noted that they closed their career with two Hymns: this and “The Long And Winding Road.” In the sweltering September of my madness, I’ve begun to map out music to the Tarot, driven by a longstanding desire to connect the music to the mystic and a hatred for the small, mathematical minds of Man who must reduce everything beautiful and complex to the brute simplicity of numbers and Boolean expressions. Mathematics is merely the chattering of chimpanzees at the foot of life’s impenetrable obelisk. (Not that I’m defending the Tarot as a system of defining anything, which in its dull innocence assigns the number 8 to God, but at least it admits the existence of chance and a higher author in contrast to that conceited devil, the decimal system.) If I tell you this song is 9/10 stars or 4 out of 5 bananas, I’ve told you nothing. But if I point my bony finger to the card of Death, where a princess weeps for a dead King and a proud priest stands hopeful of tomorrow, I’ve done the decimal system 1.0 better. The Be side is The Beatles doing their best Bonzo Dog Band impression, beloved by many as the silliest song they’ve ever written. It’s actually a patchwork of sessions from 1967 and 1969, and features a funny saxophone solo from the Stones’ Brian Jones (and thusly the Tarot begins to weave its strange magic...).

TRACK LISTING

1. LET IT BE    (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)    3:50
2. YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP MY NUMBER)    (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)    4:20

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