I like Let it Be a lot. There are great songs on it as has been discussed already. But the reason its under-rated is down to the comments Lennon made, McCartney?s objection to the choral and string arrangement to The Long and Winding Road and it doesn?t help that George called it this period the ?winter of discontent.? When Spector came around, it was like, 'Well, all right, if you want to work with us, go and do your audition, man.' And he worked like a pig on it. He'd always wanted to work with The Beatles and he was given the shittiest load of badly recorded shit - and with a lousy feeling to it - ever. And he made something out of it. It wasn't fantastic, but I heard it, I didn't puke. I was so relieved after six months of this black cloud hanging over, this was going to go out. I thought it would be good to go out, the shitty version, because it would break The Beatles, it would break the myth. That's us with no trousers on and no glossy paint over the cover and no sort of hype. 'This is what we're like with our trousers off. So would you please end the game now?' But that didn't happen, and we ended up doing Abbey Road quickly and putting out something to preserve the myth. John Lennon, 1970 Lennon Remembers, Jann S Wenner How can an album recover from that type of promotion!! Before I started reading Beatle biographies it was my favorite LP. Then I read about how tumultuous the recording sessions were and the arguments, and film shows how strained the sessions were. But they pulled it together for the rooftop concert and as Ringo says ?put the bullshit behind us?. But as Beatle fans we are waiting impatiently for the release of Let it Be and outtakes, hopefully, on DVD/BlueRay. I?ve listened to countless outtakes of The Long and Winding Road and Spector?s version is horrible. I?ve never liked it. He took a simple piano ballad and made it too syrupy. I can?t listen that version anymore.