Music | The Beatles: Let It Be

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Introduction:
The modern world of music has changed in a significant manner over the years and
one of the main influential factor in the same, is seen to be the varying preferences of the
listeners. Considering the evolution of the music industry, it is visible that the preferences of
the customers are of great significance for production houses in creating their music (Naveed,
Watanabe & Neittaanmäki, 2017). With a precise look at modern music industry, the
prominence of the band culture is pretty evident. Aubert (2017) claimed that the evolution of
the rock culture is seen to be a major trend in the modern world of music and with a look at
the consumption characteristics, the attractiveness of the form of music amongst the youth
generation is visible. The study discusses regarding a music album named as “Let It Be”
created by a renowned Liverpool based band named as “The Beatles”. Along with that, the
study analyses the genre of music that the band provides and in addition to this, the study
evaluates the style that the band follows and along with the historical context. In addition to
this, the study delivers a brief overview of the band.
The Beatles:
The preferences of general people towards the rock music has a deep rooted history
and the evolution of The Beatles is an important chapter in the history of rock culture (NA,
2016). The band was formed in the year 1960 in Liverpool of England. John Lennon, Ringo
Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison formed the nucleus of a band which was
regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time (Thebeatles.com, 2020). The main
focus of the group was on the rock culture and on the pop music and that was visible with the
music albums that the band delivered in these many years. The band was famous for their
ability in combining the traditional pop and classical music in innovative ways
(Thebeatles.com, 2020). Along with that, the band had the tendency of exploring different

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music styles which was evident with their interest on the music styles such as the hard rock,
Indian music, psychedelia and ballads. In the year 1988, the contribution of the band was
recognized with an induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Thebeatles.com, 2020).
With a precise look at the awards and achievements that the band received, the 1971
Academy Award for Best Original Score for “Let It Be” is pretty prominent (Thebeatles.com,
2020). The band is seen to achieve seven Grammy awards along with fifteen Ivor Novelllo
Awards. Other than this, it achieved one silver album, six diamond albums, 16 Platinum
albums along with 20 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States region. In addition to this,
the band is observed to have one silver album, four Multi-Platinum albums, eight Gold
albums and four Multi-Platinum albums in UK (Thebeatles.com, 2020).
Let It Be:
The selected album is known as the final and twelfth studio album developed by the
English rock band, The Beatles (Ramet, 2019). The album was released in the year 1970 and
attractiveness of the album amongst the rock music lovers was pretty prominent with the fact
that it topped he record charts in majority of the countries which includes both United
Kingdom and United States (Clercq, 2017).
Historical Context to the formation of the Let It Be:
Paul McCartney showed considerable amount of interest in managing the band
members to perform live again after two years from the time they left touring collectively in
the year 1968. The formation of the group had certainly faced some major blows which was
visible with a number of serious arguments and strained relationship amongst the members of
the group. The other members of the band were seen to be reluctant in considering the
proposal of McCartney (Deschênes, 2016). The fiercest opposition came from the part of