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He said his work on the original "Let It Be" was a rescue project.
"I knew they were breaking up, I knew they were never going to come back together again ... The public didn't and I was there to make a commercial album, because I wanted to sell 12 million albums and the public ended up buying it and I was Mr Commerciality," Spector says.He says working on the album was a nightmare.
“The Long and Winding Road was a terrible recording when I first heard it. John was playing bass on it with all the wrong notes. There was no snare drum on it – I had to get Ringo in to play. It was really awful. Paul was singing like he didn’t believe it, he was kinda mocking it. And John didn’t like the song. That’s why he played bass on it, and he didn’t know the chord changes so he was guessing. It was a farce and I had to do everything I could to cover up the mistakes.”
“I worked with strangers in a hostile environment, hostile press, hostile people, all Beatle lovers who thought I was taking their Beatles away,” he says. “It was not an enviable task. But I wanted "Let It Be" to be a great farewell album. I knew they were breaking up, I knew there wouldn’t be a reunion – the public didn’t."
“I don’t think McCartney is very secure that I went there in a few months and did what they couldn’t do in two years with those tapes. John was thrilled with what I did and George was thrilled with what I did, and Paul said he loved "The Long and Winding Road" when it was done."
But Spector is clearly not happy with "Let It Be ... Naked."
“I don’t know, what else could it be, except that it is a bug up his arse? He waited 35 years to do it, I don’t know why, I don’t care why. Whatever the grievance, he has got me mixed up with somebody that gives a shit.”
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