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This song was written by Paul
McCartney (100%) and credited as Lennon-McCartney
First recorded by
the famous group the Beatleas: on January 31 1969.
Paul McCartney recollects that it was really difficult time around the autumn of 1968. It was late in the Beatles’ career and they had begun making a new album, a follow-up to the “White Album.” As a group they were starting to have problems. He was sensing the Beatles were breaking up, so he was staying up late at night, drinking, doing drugs, clubbing, the way a lot of people were at the time.
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So, he was exhausted!
Then one night, somewhere between deep
sleep and insomnia, he had the most comforting dream about
his mother, who died when he was only 14. She had been a nurse and very hardworking, because she wanted the best for her children. They weren’t a well-off family- they didn’t have a car, they just had a television – so both of his parents went out to work, and Mum contributed a good half to the family income. At night when she came home, she would cook, so they didn’t have a lot of time with each other. But she was just a very comforting presence in Paul’s life. And when she died, one of the difficulties he had, as the years went by, was that he couldn’t recall her face so easily..
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So in this dream twelve years later, his mother appeared,
and there was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes,
and she said to him very gently, very reassuringly: “Let it be.”
It was lovely. he woke up with a great feeling. It was really like she had visited him at this very difficult point in his life and gave him this message: Be gentle, don’t fight things, just try and go with the flow and it will all work out.
So, being a musician, he went right over to the piano and started writing a song:
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“When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary
comes to me”… Mary was his mother’s name… “Speaking words
of wisdom, let it be.” There will be an answer, let it be.” It didn’t take long. He wrote the main body of it in one go, and then the subsequent verses developed from there: “When all the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.”
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He thought it was special, so he played it to
the guys and ’round a lot of people, and later
it also became the title of the album, because it had so much value to Paul, and because it just seemed definitive, those three little syllables.
Not very long after the dream, he got together with Linda, which was the saving of him. For Paul it was as if his mum had sent her.
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Paul McCartney says ‘These days, the song has
become almost like a hymn. We sang it at Linda’s
memorial service. And after September 11 the radio played it a lot, which made it the obvious choice for me to sing when I did the benefit concert in New York City. Even before September 11th, people used to lean out of cars and trucks and say, “Yo, Paul, let it be.”
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So those words are really very special
to me, because not only did my mum come to
me in a dream and reassure me with them at a very difficult time in my life – and sure enough, things did get better after that – but also, in putting them into a song, and recording it with the Beatles, it became a comforting, healing statement for other people too.”
