If . . . you become . . . naked . . .

The hottest news in Pepperland is that the Beatles--those who remain--will soon release a new version of their problematic swan song, the Let It Be album from 1970. See:

Beatles Strip and Clean 'Let It Be'

Phil Spector's "wall of sound" overproduction of the album will be removed, allowing what was originally intended as a "live" set to sound, well, livelier.

I've always liked the individual songs on LIB, though I never felt it worked as an album. The combination of live recordings overdubbed with an orchestra and a celestial choir (though some songs were left "raw") just seemed bizarrely incongruous. It will be interesting to hear the fabs "as nature intended," which is what the old album claimed to offer but didn't.

The tentative title for the CD is Let It Be Naked.