WEBVTT - Let It Be

0:00:14.824 --> 0:00:15.304
<v Speaker 1>Pushkin.

0:00:30.384 --> 0:00:36.504
<v Speaker 2>The conditions for our tours had deteriorated as the success

0:00:36.544 --> 0:00:43.344
<v Speaker 2>had come along. The crowds had got louder, the venues

0:00:43.384 --> 0:00:46.944
<v Speaker 2>had got bigger, and so now we were getting a

0:00:46.944 --> 0:01:03.984
<v Speaker 2>little bit fed up with him. The guys variously had said,

0:01:03.984 --> 0:01:06.544
<v Speaker 2>oh God, this is terrible, dis terrible. George had said that,

0:01:06.744 --> 0:01:09.304
<v Speaker 2>John had said that, I think even Ringo it's sort

0:01:09.304 --> 0:01:13.664
<v Speaker 2>of expressed displeasure of the whole thing. I generally just

0:01:13.704 --> 0:01:17.584
<v Speaker 2>sort of soldiered on, but after this candlestick Park, I

0:01:17.664 --> 0:01:18.624
<v Speaker 2>just finally said.

0:01:18.424 --> 0:01:22.024
<v Speaker 1>Oh, fucking he, this is like just so bad. I

0:01:22.064 --> 0:01:24.304
<v Speaker 1>agree with all you guys, we should just give up

0:01:24.344 --> 0:01:24.584
<v Speaker 1>to it.

0:01:33.264 --> 0:01:36.824
<v Speaker 2>These circumstances were at the time that I'd been doing

0:01:36.904 --> 0:01:42.384
<v Speaker 2>too much of everything. Fell asleep, had a dream where

0:01:42.464 --> 0:01:47.064
<v Speaker 2>my mom, who died ten years previously, came to me.

0:01:47.864 --> 0:01:50.424
<v Speaker 1>And she said, let it be.

0:01:56.104 --> 0:02:02.144
<v Speaker 2>Seeing her beautiful, kind face, I immediately felt at ease

0:02:03.104 --> 0:02:10.704
<v Speaker 2>and loved, and she said words, she said.

0:02:10.704 --> 0:02:17.304
<v Speaker 3>Being word, just y, I love, Yes, let it be,

0:02:18.024 --> 0:02:22.384
<v Speaker 3>Let it be, Let it be, Let it be.

0:02:23.504 --> 0:02:24.704
<v Speaker 4>Oh, I could.

0:02:24.744 --> 0:02:27.504
<v Speaker 1>Tell you, but let it be.

0:02:36.864 --> 0:02:40.904
<v Speaker 4>I'm Paul, will do. And I've been fortunate to spend

0:02:40.984 --> 0:02:45.064
<v Speaker 4>time with one of the greatest songwriters of our era and.

0:02:45.064 --> 0:02:45.784
<v Speaker 1>Will you look at me?

0:02:46.584 --> 0:02:49.704
<v Speaker 2>I'm going on to I'm actually a performer.

0:02:49.624 --> 0:02:53.184
<v Speaker 4>That is sir Paul McCartney. We worked together on a

0:02:53.264 --> 0:02:55.784
<v Speaker 4>book looking at the lyrics of more than one hundred

0:02:55.824 --> 0:03:00.064
<v Speaker 4>and fifty of his songs, and we recorded many hours

0:03:00.344 --> 0:03:02.384
<v Speaker 4>of our conversations.

0:03:01.784 --> 0:03:04.904
<v Speaker 2>Oh she's a songwriter, My god, Well.

0:03:05.104 --> 0:03:11.304
<v Speaker 4>Crypt homie, this is McCartney. A life lyrics, a masterclass,

0:03:11.544 --> 0:03:14.984
<v Speaker 4>a memoir, and an improvised journey with one of the

0:03:15.024 --> 0:03:20.424
<v Speaker 4>most iconic figures in popular music. In this episode let

0:03:20.504 --> 0:03:25.824
<v Speaker 4>it Be. It was nineteen sixty eight and the Beatles

0:03:25.904 --> 0:03:33.784
<v Speaker 4>were recording the White Album in Tensions were high in

0:03:34.184 --> 0:03:39.624
<v Speaker 4>and out of the studio. The band's members were beginning

0:03:39.664 --> 0:03:53.664
<v Speaker 4>to pursue individual interests and songwriting styles. Lennon and McCartney's

0:03:53.704 --> 0:03:58.944
<v Speaker 4>friendship was becoming increasingly strained. The group was still mourning

0:03:58.984 --> 0:04:03.464
<v Speaker 4>the nineteen sixty seven death of their manager Brian Epstein.

0:04:04.184 --> 0:04:08.424
<v Speaker 4>The Beatles were barreling toward their eventual breakup.

0:04:13.824 --> 0:04:17.024
<v Speaker 2>We were heading towards the breakup of the Beatles, and

0:04:18.304 --> 0:04:22.104
<v Speaker 2>it was a period of change because John and Yoko

0:04:22.424 --> 0:04:26.024
<v Speaker 2>had got together and that was bound to have an

0:04:26.064 --> 0:04:29.984
<v Speaker 2>effect on the dynamics of the group.

0:04:30.784 --> 0:04:34.424
<v Speaker 4>As the love between John Lennon and the artist Yoko

0:04:34.464 --> 0:04:41.464
<v Speaker 4>Ono was intensifying, the two became utterly inseparable. John insisted

0:04:41.584 --> 0:04:45.824
<v Speaker 4>Yoko be present in the studio, So things.

0:04:45.624 --> 0:04:48.264
<v Speaker 2>Like Yoko being in the in the middle, literally in

0:04:48.264 --> 0:04:52.144
<v Speaker 2>the middle of the recording session was, you know, something

0:04:52.144 --> 0:04:55.504
<v Speaker 2>you had to deal with. And the idea was that

0:04:55.544 --> 0:04:58.744
<v Speaker 2>if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen.

0:04:59.264 --> 0:05:00.584
<v Speaker 1>And there's no reason why not.

0:05:01.224 --> 0:05:04.464
<v Speaker 5>Well except that there is a reason why not. You know,

0:05:04.544 --> 0:05:05.904
<v Speaker 5>you're there to do some work.

0:05:06.264 --> 0:05:18.024
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and anything that disturbed us is disturbing. At a

0:05:18.104 --> 0:05:22.504
<v Speaker 2>deference to John, we will allow this and not make

0:05:22.544 --> 0:05:23.104
<v Speaker 2>a fuss.

0:05:23.584 --> 0:05:25.184
<v Speaker 1>And yet at the same time.

0:05:25.864 --> 0:05:30.024
<v Speaker 2>I don't think any of us particularly liked it.

0:05:30.024 --> 0:05:30.624
<v Speaker 1>It was.

0:05:32.024 --> 0:05:36.224
<v Speaker 2>An interference in the workplace. We had a way we worked.

0:05:36.224 --> 0:05:40.104
<v Speaker 2>The four of us worked with George Martin and an

0:05:40.184 --> 0:05:44.024
<v Speaker 2>engineer and that was basically it, and we'd always done

0:05:44.064 --> 0:05:49.744
<v Speaker 2>it like that, So not being very confrontational, I think

0:05:49.784 --> 0:05:51.984
<v Speaker 2>we just bottled it up and just got on with it.

0:05:58.784 --> 0:06:01.344
<v Speaker 5>And you had to make it work because the idea

0:06:01.384 --> 0:06:03.704
<v Speaker 5>of the Beatles, it was something that you wanted to

0:06:03.704 --> 0:06:06.784
<v Speaker 5>continue with. I suppose it's hun profile. I mean it

0:06:06.904 --> 0:06:08.064
<v Speaker 5>was such a great thing.

0:06:08.304 --> 0:06:10.144
<v Speaker 2>I mean it was the idea of the Beatles was

0:06:10.184 --> 0:06:13.664
<v Speaker 2>also just a straight practical thing of this was our job.

0:06:14.304 --> 0:06:18.304
<v Speaker 2>This is what we did in life. We were the Beatles.

0:06:18.664 --> 0:06:23.424
<v Speaker 2>That meant if we didn't tour, we recorded, and that

0:06:23.544 --> 0:06:25.144
<v Speaker 2>meant if we recorded, we wrote.

0:06:30.664 --> 0:06:35.464
<v Speaker 6>When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary

0:06:35.664 --> 0:06:40.824
<v Speaker 6>comes to me speaking words of wisdom, Let it be.

0:06:43.624 --> 0:06:48.384
<v Speaker 7>And in my old redondness, she is standing right in

0:06:48.584 --> 0:06:52.504
<v Speaker 7>front of me speaking words of wisdom.

0:06:52.744 --> 0:06:56.264
<v Speaker 3>Let it be, Let it be.

0:06:56.424 --> 0:07:00.704
<v Speaker 4>Paul McCartney says this impulse to avoid confrontation, to be

0:07:00.904 --> 0:07:05.304
<v Speaker 4>accommodating may have been passed done from his parents, who

0:07:05.424 --> 0:07:10.304
<v Speaker 4>valued kindness and good manners and taught so values to

0:07:10.384 --> 0:07:11.024
<v Speaker 4>their children.

0:07:12.024 --> 0:07:16.784
<v Speaker 2>We were encouraged to be good guys in our family,

0:07:17.304 --> 0:07:18.904
<v Speaker 2>so that you know, if we were at a bus

0:07:18.904 --> 0:07:23.744
<v Speaker 2>stop and there were women in the queue, my dad

0:07:23.784 --> 0:07:27.384
<v Speaker 2>would raise his trophy to them good morning, and he

0:07:27.504 --> 0:07:30.944
<v Speaker 2>encouraged us to raise our school caps good morning.

0:07:31.424 --> 0:07:31.904
<v Speaker 8>He was.

0:07:33.624 --> 0:07:38.144
<v Speaker 2>That kind of polite, gentlemanly guy, even though they were

0:07:38.184 --> 0:07:41.984
<v Speaker 2>working class. All my family, I think were like that,

0:07:42.824 --> 0:07:43.784
<v Speaker 2>and when.

0:07:43.424 --> 0:07:50.064
<v Speaker 6>They're broken hearted people living in the world agreed there

0:07:50.104 --> 0:07:51.424
<v Speaker 6>will be an answer.

0:07:52.184 --> 0:07:52.664
<v Speaker 3>Let it be.

0:07:54.824 --> 0:07:58.024
<v Speaker 2>I like that, it's nice to be nice.

0:07:58.224 --> 0:07:59.744
<v Speaker 1>I like courtesy.

0:08:00.264 --> 0:08:07.464
<v Speaker 2>I value politeness, courtesy, and don't particularly like confrontation. If

0:08:07.504 --> 0:08:10.504
<v Speaker 2>it's absolutely necessary, then you do it.

0:08:10.904 --> 0:08:12.584
<v Speaker 1>But I mean generally speaking, we.

0:08:12.464 --> 0:08:15.744
<v Speaker 2>Would try, all of us, I think, would try not

0:08:15.904 --> 0:08:16.464
<v Speaker 2>to do that.

0:08:18.984 --> 0:08:23.264
<v Speaker 7>There is still a chest and they will see there

0:08:23.504 --> 0:08:24.704
<v Speaker 7>will be an answer.

0:08:25.704 --> 0:08:26.504
<v Speaker 3>Let it be.

0:08:28.904 --> 0:08:32.824
<v Speaker 4>Let it be as a refrain is a moral message,

0:08:33.224 --> 0:08:36.984
<v Speaker 4>echoing other hits that were popular when Paul McCartney was

0:08:37.024 --> 0:08:41.384
<v Speaker 4>growing up, Like k Sarah Sarah, when.

0:08:41.264 --> 0:08:46.304
<v Speaker 5>I was just a little hugerl I asked my mother

0:08:46.904 --> 0:08:48.224
<v Speaker 5>what will I be?

0:08:49.984 --> 0:08:53.264
<v Speaker 3>Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?

0:08:54.024 --> 0:09:00.144
<v Speaker 7>Here's what she said to me, Kay, s.

0:09:02.384 --> 0:09:06.104
<v Speaker 2>I've always known that people in listening to your song

0:09:06.704 --> 0:09:09.984
<v Speaker 2>may take a message away, So that if your song

0:09:10.144 --> 0:09:13.864
<v Speaker 2>is a good message love is all you need, then

0:09:14.464 --> 0:09:18.144
<v Speaker 2>that's a good message to put out rather than sympathy

0:09:18.184 --> 0:09:18.784
<v Speaker 2>for the devil.

0:09:20.864 --> 0:09:29.504
<v Speaker 8>Plead to meet you will get day. But what you

0:09:30.064 --> 0:09:33.504
<v Speaker 8>with the nature of Magame.

0:09:34.984 --> 0:09:38.864
<v Speaker 2>You know, mis not a bad boy at all, It's

0:09:38.984 --> 0:09:43.344
<v Speaker 2>exactly opposite. But his image is to show is of that.

0:09:44.224 --> 0:09:46.984
<v Speaker 2>Whereas we just didn't really have a bothered with that.

0:09:52.064 --> 0:09:56.304
<v Speaker 4>Whereas the Rolling Stones wrote songs about sex, drugs, and

0:09:56.504 --> 0:10:00.224
<v Speaker 4>rock and roll, the Beatles wrote lyrics that were more

0:10:00.384 --> 0:10:04.104
<v Speaker 4>likely to be parent approved, or that would at least

0:10:04.424 --> 0:10:08.704
<v Speaker 4>sound familiar to parents who are listening to other classics.

0:10:09.264 --> 0:10:16.384
<v Speaker 6>The time kaya, whatever will be, will be?

0:10:17.304 --> 0:10:19.664
<v Speaker 3>The future is not ours.

0:10:19.344 --> 0:10:23.904
<v Speaker 7>To see, okayeta seta.

0:10:25.024 --> 0:10:27.544
<v Speaker 3>What will be will be?

0:10:28.784 --> 0:10:29.984
<v Speaker 1>Whatever will be will be?

0:10:30.224 --> 0:10:33.184
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Well do you think in any way it might

0:10:33.224 --> 0:10:36.104
<v Speaker 5>be feeding into this a little bit? No?

0:10:36.304 --> 0:10:40.184
<v Speaker 2>I mean there were loads of songs that were about stuff,

0:10:40.264 --> 0:10:44.304
<v Speaker 2>that were encouraging you to be good, and I think

0:10:44.384 --> 0:10:46.024
<v Speaker 2>Cassah is one of them.

0:10:46.024 --> 0:10:47.584
<v Speaker 1>When I was a little girl, I asked my mother,

0:10:47.664 --> 0:10:51.784
<v Speaker 1>what would I be? Will be this? The mother said,

0:10:52.784 --> 0:10:53.944
<v Speaker 1>who knows? You know?

0:10:54.224 --> 0:10:57.104
<v Speaker 2>Case Rah, what will be will be? But that's not

0:10:57.224 --> 0:10:57.584
<v Speaker 2>let it be.

0:11:02.904 --> 0:11:07.584
<v Speaker 4>Paul McCartney's mother had passed away when he was only fourteen,

0:11:08.184 --> 0:11:12.984
<v Speaker 4>and both heard death and her absence strongly influenced the

0:11:13.064 --> 0:11:16.544
<v Speaker 4>young songwriter, so it's not a surprise that in such

0:11:16.584 --> 0:11:20.424
<v Speaker 4>a time of stress, it would be his mother who

0:11:20.424 --> 0:11:24.064
<v Speaker 4>would come to comfort him in a dream. His mother,

0:11:24.384 --> 0:11:27.344
<v Speaker 4>whose name was in fact Mary, and I.

0:11:27.344 --> 0:11:33.184
<v Speaker 2>Sort of fell into the dream feeling great, and woke

0:11:33.304 --> 0:11:37.504
<v Speaker 2>up feeling still feeling great, and thinking, oh, I'm remembering

0:11:37.544 --> 0:11:41.984
<v Speaker 2>the dream and remembering how she looked and how it felt,

0:11:42.624 --> 0:11:46.344
<v Speaker 2>and what she said. And I remembered particularly that she

0:11:46.464 --> 0:11:49.624
<v Speaker 2>said the words let it be. Because of this dream,

0:11:49.864 --> 0:11:54.304
<v Speaker 2>I woke up and thought, that is that's a great

0:11:54.344 --> 0:11:58.384
<v Speaker 2>subject for a song, and I will start it with

0:11:58.504 --> 0:12:02.104
<v Speaker 2>my present circumstances. When I find myself in time to

0:12:02.184 --> 0:12:05.944
<v Speaker 2>trouble Mother Mary comes to me, it's just exactly what

0:12:06.024 --> 0:12:10.824
<v Speaker 2>has just happened, speaking words of will let it be.

0:12:13.544 --> 0:12:19.224
<v Speaker 3>Let it be, let it be, let it be, Let it.

0:12:19.104 --> 0:12:23.064
<v Speaker 4>Be for all. Paul McCartney knew the words let it

0:12:23.104 --> 0:12:27.704
<v Speaker 4>be had come from his subconscious or as a message

0:12:27.824 --> 0:12:31.304
<v Speaker 4>from beyond the grave, but after the song was released,

0:12:31.744 --> 0:12:35.504
<v Speaker 4>he realized that he may have encountered these words long

0:12:35.584 --> 0:12:38.264
<v Speaker 4>before he wrote the lyrics, back when he was a

0:12:38.304 --> 0:12:43.104
<v Speaker 4>schoolboy at the Liverpool Institute for Boys. There, in the

0:12:43.144 --> 0:12:48.624
<v Speaker 4>English class of Paul's favored and most formative teacher, Alan Durband,

0:12:49.064 --> 0:12:53.304
<v Speaker 4>the students read Shakespeare's Hamlet for the first time.

0:12:53.664 --> 0:12:56.784
<v Speaker 2>So in those days it had to learn speeches off

0:12:56.824 --> 0:12:59.024
<v Speaker 2>by heart. So I could still do a bit of

0:12:59.104 --> 0:13:01.224
<v Speaker 2>a bill, not to be all over this two two

0:13:01.304 --> 0:13:04.544
<v Speaker 2>solid flash. And it had been pointed out to me

0:13:04.704 --> 0:13:11.784
<v Speaker 2>recently that Hamlet isn't He actually says, let it be.

0:13:12.944 --> 0:13:17.024
<v Speaker 2>I don't recall back five scene two. It just happened

0:13:17.024 --> 0:13:23.344
<v Speaker 2>to so we can give you the exact quote. He

0:13:23.424 --> 0:13:27.824
<v Speaker 2>says let be the first time, but then the second

0:13:27.864 --> 0:13:32.944
<v Speaker 2>time he says, had I got time as this fell?

0:13:33.064 --> 0:13:35.664
<v Speaker 1>Sergeant death is strict in his arrest.

0:13:36.304 --> 0:13:41.104
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I could tell you, but let it be, Horatio.

0:13:42.064 --> 0:13:46.944
<v Speaker 7>Let it be, Let it be, Let it be.

0:13:47.544 --> 0:13:52.744
<v Speaker 4>With these words, the Prince of Denmark clutching his fatal wound,

0:13:53.664 --> 0:13:57.344
<v Speaker 4>except that his death is eminent, that he will not

0:13:57.584 --> 0:14:00.224
<v Speaker 4>live to tell his tragic story.

0:14:00.504 --> 0:14:04.144
<v Speaker 2>But I was interested that I was exposed to those

0:14:04.184 --> 0:14:06.584
<v Speaker 2>words during a time when I was.

0:14:08.144 --> 0:14:10.424
<v Speaker 1>Studying Shakespeare. It so did.

0:14:11.824 --> 0:14:18.104
<v Speaker 2>Years later, the phrase appears to me in a dream,

0:14:18.144 --> 0:14:21.944
<v Speaker 2>with my mother saying, now, of course, I must realize

0:14:22.224 --> 0:14:26.224
<v Speaker 2>that it's it's me saying it through her. It's kind of,

0:14:26.264 --> 0:14:27.384
<v Speaker 2>I think, very interesting.

0:14:27.944 --> 0:14:32.424
<v Speaker 4>The phrase let it be seems simple enough when we

0:14:32.504 --> 0:14:35.544
<v Speaker 4>first hear it, but we might each take it to

0:14:35.624 --> 0:14:37.144
<v Speaker 4>mean something different.

0:14:37.704 --> 0:14:40.304
<v Speaker 2>Please God, let it let it be. I want a

0:14:40.424 --> 0:14:45.144
<v Speaker 2>rand new car. Let it be, you know, knock it off,

0:14:45.344 --> 0:14:48.744
<v Speaker 2>pack it in, let it be, just don't don't bother,

0:14:49.184 --> 0:14:50.024
<v Speaker 2>you know, just let it be.

0:14:51.344 --> 0:14:54.384
<v Speaker 5>And there's let's leave things as they are.

0:14:54.544 --> 0:14:57.944
<v Speaker 2>It's okay, which is pointed out to me, is the

0:14:58.064 --> 0:15:00.264
<v Speaker 2>answer to to be or not to be?

0:15:01.504 --> 0:15:08.624
<v Speaker 1>M let it be?

0:15:05.224 --> 0:15:16.224
<v Speaker 4>With to be or not to be Hamlet's famous question.

0:15:16.944 --> 0:15:19.504
<v Speaker 4>It was also, in a sense the question that was

0:15:19.544 --> 0:15:22.944
<v Speaker 4>beginning to haunt the Beatles as a group. Their future

0:15:22.984 --> 0:15:27.624
<v Speaker 4>existence as a band was entirely uncertain. In that way,

0:15:27.744 --> 0:15:31.184
<v Speaker 4>both meanings of the phrase let it be are fitting.

0:15:31.824 --> 0:15:35.384
<v Speaker 4>Let it be as hopeful plea, let it be as

0:15:35.704 --> 0:15:48.864
<v Speaker 4>stoic resignation, let it be Eddy.

0:15:46.904 --> 0:15:47.464
<v Speaker 2>The bed.

0:15:51.264 --> 0:15:55.144
<v Speaker 4>In this song with a title that has multiple meanings,

0:15:55.584 --> 0:16:02.704
<v Speaker 4>there's another lyric Paul McCartney left open to interpretation to.

0:16:02.344 --> 0:16:13.184
<v Speaker 7>The sound of music, Mother Mary, God to me singing wisdom.

0:16:13.384 --> 0:16:17.744
<v Speaker 4>By calling his mother by her first name, Mary, McCartney

0:16:18.064 --> 0:16:22.304
<v Speaker 4>opens the door to a more sacred aspect of the song.

0:16:22.504 --> 0:16:25.944
<v Speaker 2>As I called her mother Mary rather than my mom Mary.

0:16:26.424 --> 0:16:30.704
<v Speaker 2>I think no I knew enough to know that. Okay,

0:16:30.904 --> 0:16:33.504
<v Speaker 2>we've got a sort of double meaning going here. I

0:16:33.504 --> 0:16:35.824
<v Speaker 2>think you're aware of that when you write these things.

0:16:36.464 --> 0:16:39.064
<v Speaker 2>But it was kind of good because it opens the

0:16:39.104 --> 0:16:44.504
<v Speaker 2>song to a religious crowd who want to take it

0:16:44.544 --> 0:16:48.264
<v Speaker 2>like that, so it gets performed my gospel. Yes.

0:17:06.664 --> 0:17:11.304
<v Speaker 4>Paul McCartney's father was Protestant and his mother Catholic, though

0:17:11.344 --> 0:17:15.544
<v Speaker 4>when it came to their children's schooling, the priority was

0:17:15.664 --> 0:17:16.824
<v Speaker 4>a good education.

0:17:17.224 --> 0:17:20.624
<v Speaker 9>The fact that she was a nurse had meant that

0:17:20.744 --> 0:17:24.824
<v Speaker 9>she'd been called to a lot of schools, and she

0:17:24.984 --> 0:17:28.304
<v Speaker 9>thought the Prodestant school's education was better.

0:17:28.984 --> 0:17:31.784
<v Speaker 2>So she wanted the best education for her kids, and

0:17:31.864 --> 0:17:34.864
<v Speaker 2>no doubt my dad, being Protestant, would say, yeah, the

0:17:35.024 --> 0:17:48.464
<v Speaker 2>better and agree with them. The Catholic aspect, it was

0:17:48.584 --> 0:17:53.664
<v Speaker 2>really only one thing was that we'd been christened to

0:17:53.784 --> 0:17:57.344
<v Speaker 2>save our immortal souls, which I was always rather pleased with.

0:17:57.544 --> 0:18:00.784
<v Speaker 2>I'm glad my immortal soul is safe, and you know,

0:18:00.904 --> 0:18:01.744
<v Speaker 2>so I thank her.

0:18:01.584 --> 0:18:02.064
<v Speaker 1>For doing that.

0:18:03.464 --> 0:18:07.904
<v Speaker 4>Why let it be wasn't written with a particular religious angle,

0:18:08.384 --> 0:18:12.824
<v Speaker 4>It certainly can in a spiritual dimension. The words of

0:18:12.904 --> 0:18:18.024
<v Speaker 4>wisdom delivered by Mother Mary are repeated throughout the song

0:18:18.304 --> 0:18:21.664
<v Speaker 4>as the music swells, and they take on the quality

0:18:21.704 --> 0:18:27.104
<v Speaker 4>of a chant, a prayer, or another type of holy incantation.

0:18:34.704 --> 0:18:38.424
<v Speaker 3>Mother Mother Mary constantly.

0:18:51.984 --> 0:18:54.104
<v Speaker 2>You know someone said, what's your religion? I wouldn't just

0:18:54.104 --> 0:18:58.264
<v Speaker 2>sort of say Christian, but I take Christian, Buddhist, Jewish.

0:18:59.184 --> 0:19:01.224
<v Speaker 2>There are many great teachings in all.

0:19:01.184 --> 0:19:06.064
<v Speaker 4>The religion, in its spiritual ambiguity. Let it Be offers

0:19:06.344 --> 0:19:10.624
<v Speaker 4>a sort of common grant and to break from the

0:19:10.744 --> 0:19:15.184
<v Speaker 4>conflicts of different belief systems. And at a time when

0:19:15.184 --> 0:19:19.784
<v Speaker 4>the divisions within the Beatles were becoming only more pronounced,

0:19:20.344 --> 0:19:24.704
<v Speaker 4>the song called for and made possible a few moments

0:19:24.744 --> 0:19:26.944
<v Speaker 4>off togetherness because it is a.

0:19:26.864 --> 0:19:27.584
<v Speaker 1>Song of hope.

0:19:27.744 --> 0:19:31.104
<v Speaker 2>Sure you know about all people are going to sort

0:19:31.104 --> 0:19:35.664
<v Speaker 2>of come together. You do think is there ever going

0:19:35.744 --> 0:19:38.944
<v Speaker 2>to be a time when people agree? And you know,

0:19:39.464 --> 0:19:44.584
<v Speaker 2>realistically you have to think, well, probably not, No, probably not.

0:19:44.824 --> 0:19:45.984
<v Speaker 1>But it's a great dream.

0:19:46.184 --> 0:19:51.064
<v Speaker 2>It's a beautiful dream, and the more you push towards it,

0:19:51.184 --> 0:19:52.824
<v Speaker 2>the more it may happen.

0:20:16.944 --> 0:20:21.064
<v Speaker 4>Let It Be released in nineteen seventy as the title

0:20:21.184 --> 0:20:30.984
<v Speaker 4>song from the Beatles' last album. In the next episode,

0:20:32.624 --> 0:20:36.664
<v Speaker 4>we go to the rolling hills of Scotland, where Paul's wife,

0:20:36.784 --> 0:20:40.624
<v Speaker 4>Lynda McCartney helped him to discover his love of nature

0:20:41.024 --> 0:20:46.384
<v Speaker 4>and the joys of fixing up their farm. McCartney a

0:20:46.464 --> 0:20:51.384
<v Speaker 4>life in Lyrics is a co production between iHeartMedia NPL

0:20:51.824 --> 0:20:53.624
<v Speaker 4>and Pushkin Industries.