The Beatles' 'Let It Be' Special Edition Releases announced

Big news today with The Beatles' announcement that several configurations of the band's Let It Be overseen by Giles Martin (the son of the group's late producer George Martin) are set to arrive on Oct. 15, 2021. Listen to the three advance tracks from the set I have posted as part of my coverage below too...Robert Kinsler

The Beatles announce the release of 'Let It Be' 50th Anniversary edition; expanded box set coming Oct. 15

It has been rumored for weeks and now comes the official announcement. The Beatles will release an expanded box set of their classic Let It Be on Oct. 15, 2021.

The "Special Edition (Super Deluxe)" version of the collection will include 57 tracks spread out over five audio CDs and one Blu-ray Disc. The discs will include a new stereo mix of the original 1970 album; two discs of sessions from Get Back (the original title of the album); the 1969 Get Back album mixed by Glyn Johns that was cast aside when Phil Spector was brought into the project; and an EP featuring four addition previously-unreleased cuts and new mixes!

Let It Be was originally released on May 8, 1970 and was The Beatles' last-released studio album (although it was recorded prior to 1969's Abbey Road). The album was re-introduced in 2003 via Let It Be... Naked. Spearheaded by Paul McCartney, that remix stripped away Spector's signature over production so fans could hear more sparse versions of the album's tracks.

The forthcoming "Special Edition" of Let It Be comes at the perfect time, just weeks before the premiere of director Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back three-part documentary airs on Disney + in November.

Three advance tracks from the box set have been released for the world to hear. Check them out below, followed by the track listing for the "Super Deluxe" edition.

Hear the 2021 mix of "Let It Be" HERE.

Hear the first rooftop performance of "Don't Let Me Down" HERE.

Hear the 1969 Glyn Johns mix of "For You Blue" HERE.

The Beatles, 'Let It Be: Special Edition (Super Deluxe)' Track Listing
CD1: Let It Be (new stereo mix of original album)
1: Two of Us
2: Dig a Pony
3: Across The Universe
4: I Me Mine
5: Dig It
6: Let It Be
7: Maggie Mae
8: I’ve Got a Feeling
9: One After 909
10: The Long and Winding Road
11: For You Blue
12: Get Back

CD2: Get Back – Apple Sessions
1: Morning Camera (Speech – mono) / Two Of Us (Take 4)
2: Maggie Mae / Fancy My Chances With You (Mono)
3: Can You Dig It?
4: I Don’t Know Why I’m Moaning (Speech – mono)
5: For You Blue (Take 4)
6: Let It Be / Please Please Me / Let It Be (Take 10)
7: I’ve Got a Feeling (Take 10)
8: Dig a Pony (Take 14)
9: Get Back (Take 19)
10: Like Making an Album? (Speech)
11: One After 909 (Take 3)
12: Don’t Let Me Down (First rooftop performance)
13: The Long and Winding Road (Take 19)
14: Wake Up Little Susie / I Me Mine (Take 11)

CD3: Get Back – Rehearsals and Apple Jams
1: On The Day Shift Now (Speech – mono) / All Things Must Pass (Rehearsals – mono)
2: Concentrate on the Sound (mono)
3: Gimme Some Truth (Rehearsal – mono)
4: I Me Mine (Rehearsal – mono)
5: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (Rehearsal)
6: Polythene Pam (Rehearsal – mono)
7: Octopus’s Garden (Rehearsal – mono)
8: Oh! Darling (Jam)
9: Get Back (Take 8)
10: The Walk (Jam)
11: Without A Song (Jam) – Billy Preston with John and Ringo
12: Something (Rehearsal – mono)
13: Let It Be (Take 28)

CD4: Get Back LP – 1969 Glyn Johns Mix
1: One After 909
2: I’m Ready (aka Rocker) / Save The Last Dance For Me / Don’t Let Me Down
3: Don’t Let Me Down
4: Dig a Pony
5: I’ve Got a Feeling
6: Get Back
7: For You Blue
8: Teddy Boy
9: Two of Us
10: Maggie Mae
11: Dig It
12: Let It Be
13: The Long and Winding Road
14: Get Back (Reprise)

CD5: Let It Be EP
1: Across the Universe (unreleased Glyn Johns 1970 mix)
2: I Me Mine (unreleased Glyn Johns 1970 mix)
3: Don’t Let Me Down (new mix of original single version)
4: Let It Be (new mix of original single version)