THE BEATLES

“All these years I’ve been wandering around/Wonderinghow come nobody told me”

Let It Be (Special Deluxe Edition)

APPLE CORPS LTD/CAPITOL/UME

WHEN the album and film that shared the title appeared in the spring of 1970, they were not greeted with the usual warmth. As the arrival of a new decade consigned the ’60s to history, they seemed an unwanted reminder that an era responsible for so much pleasure had ended badly. It felt like these final Beatle documents had been sanctioned by people who no longer recalled nor cared what had been on their minds when they got together in the film studios at Twickenham at the beginning of the previous year, even then unsure whether they were rehearsing for