The Beatles completed the five-month sessions for their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album") in mid October 1968. In 2021, a remixed and expanded edition of Let It Be was released with session highlights and the original 1969 Get Back mix, coinciding with the Peter Jackson-directed The Beatles: Get Back, an eight-hour three-part series documenting the rehearsal and recording process from the Twickenham sessions through the rooftop concert. Naked, an alternative version of Let It Be that removes Spector's embellishments. In 2003, McCartney spearheaded Let It Be. His work offended McCartney, particularly in the case of " The Long and Winding Road". Among Spector's changes was to include a 1968 take of " Across the Universe" and apply orchestral and choral overdubs to four tracks. When the documentary project was resurrected for a cinema release, as Let It Be, Lennon and Harrison asked American producer Phil Spector to assemble the accompanying album. The former was issued as a single in March 1970, and like all the album's recording to this point, was produced by George Martin. In January 1970, four months after John Lennon's departure from the group, the remaining Beatles finished the album with the completion of " Let It Be" and " I Me Mine".
The project then lay in limbo as they moved onto the recording of Abbey Road, released that September. In April 1969, the Beatles issued the single " Get Back", after which engineer Glyn Johns prepared and submitted mixes of the album – titled Get Back and subsequently rejected by the band. The project yielded a single public concert held on the studio's rooftop on 30 January, from which three of the album's tracks were drawn. As a condition of his return, the members reconvened at their own Apple Studio, and guest keyboardist Billy Preston was brought in to contribute. The filmed rehearsals were marked by ill feeling, leading to George Harrison's temporary departure from the group. Paul McCartney conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the band by returning to simpler rock and roll configurations. Rehearsals began at Twickenham Film Studios in January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showing the Beatles' return to live performance. The critical response was generally unfavourable, and Let It Be came to be regarded as one of the most controversial rock albums in history. Like most of the band's previous releases, the album topped charts in many countries, including both the US and the UK. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group's break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name. Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
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