008 Producing an "Unproduced" Album - Get Back/Let It Be

With Apple’s announcement that Peter Jackson will be reworking the Let It Be footage, we go back to the actual sessions to examine this period from George Martin’s perspective. Martin and The Beatles advanced the use of the recording studio in a variety of creative ways, but what would happen if they took away their method of building a recording with layers of intricate overdubs and played everything live? On the Get Back/Let It Be project, the Beatles did just that, setting aside the recording process they had developed with their producer over the previous six years. But without “production,” what was Martin’s role in this project, and how much was he actually there? And who actually produced these sessions?

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008 Producing an "Unproduced" Album - Get Back/Let It Be is an episode from Producing The Beatles by Jason Kruppa.

This episode is 00:34:02 long.

This episode was published on Mar 11, 2019.

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