The White Album), and September 1969's aforementioned Abbey Road, all of which contain many multidiscs of well-worthy bonus, alternate, and/or unreleased tracks-and, of course, the respective Holy Grail Dolby Atmos mixes of all three of those core albums on Blu-ray to boot. It's the fourth such all-in, all-out Beatles collection following mega-expanded editions of June 1967's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, November 1968's The Beatles (a.k.a. Those of us who have a special affinity for Let It Be-while I continue to cherish my original 1970 Apple LP, it was also one of the very first CDs I ever bought back in 1987-are happy to see how this album finally gets its true due thanks to a lavish 5CD/1BD box set. 9 fever dream "Across the Universe," the we've-still-got-it rooftop concert teaser-pleaser "I've Got a Feeling," and the rumble/shuffle sneer and cheer of "Get Back" among them. In the ensuing 51-plus years, Let It Be has continued to take its fair share of knocks even though it contains a score of all-time Fabs favorites like the ever-enduring patented Paul McCartney piano-ballad title track, John Lennon's ethereal pre-No. Could May 1970's Let It Be possibly be The Beatles' most underrated core studio album-and is such a thing even possible? To be sure, when Let It Be initially dropped as the free-thinking 1960s gave way to the much grittier 1970s, the album was seen as an imperfect endpoint for a once-in-a-lifetime epoch in popular music-whereas September 1969's Abbey Road, which was actually completed after the Let It Be sessions but was still released eight months ahead of that album, actually serves as a better-suited final exclamation point and nod to their fans as the final, definitive statement of the fully active Beatles era.
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