LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 16, 2019… ON THIS DATE 49 YEARS AGO, THE BEATLES RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘LET IT BE’. MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A BIBLICAL REFERENCE WHEN THEY HEARD “MOTHER MARY” IN THE SONG, BUT MCCARTNEY HAS SAID IT WAS A REFERENCE TO HIS MOTHER, WHO DIED WHEN HE WAS 14. ACCORDING TO PAUL, ONE NIGHT WHEN HE WAS FEELING ANXIOUS AND PARANOID, HE HAD A DREAM WHERE HE SAW HIS MOTHER. IN THIS DREAM SHE “BROUGHT HIM WORDS OF WISDOM MUCH PEACE WHEN HE NEEDED IT.”
HE TOLD THE STORY TO JAMES CORDEN WHEN HE APPEARED ON ‘CARPOOL KARAOKE’
“She was reassuring me, saying, ‘It’s going to be OK, just let it be.’ I felt so great. She gave me the positive words. I woke up and thought, ‘What was that? She said ‘Let It Be.’ That’s good.’ So I wrote the song ‘Let It Be’ out of positivity.”
THIS SONG WAS THE SONG MCCARTNEY PLAYED AT LINDA MCCARTNEY’S FUNERAL.
‘LET IT BE’ WAS THE FINAL SINGLE RELEASE BY THE BEATLES BEFORE PAUL MCCARTNEY ANNOUNCED HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE BAND.
THIS IS A RARE TRACK. THE BEATLES WORKING ON THE SONG IN THE STUDIO. NORMALLY I DON’T POST PICTURE VIDEOS, BUT THIS IS PRETTY COMPELLING AUDIO, ESPECIALLY AT THE 2:48 MARK WHEN LENNON REMINDS PAUL THERE IS ANOTHER VERSE
