Martin, 44 and decorated with three grammy awards, look urbane and unruffled, but surely there is some puzzled hurt in his eyes when he talks about the final result of Let It Be. "It was always understood that the album would be like nothing the Beatles
had done before. It would be honest, no overdubbing, no editing, truly live. Almost amateurish. When John brought in Phil Spector, he contradicted everything he had said before. When I heard the final sounds, I was shaken. They were so
uncharacteristic of the clean sounds the Beatles had always used. At the time, Spector was Lennon's buddy, mate and pal. Still is, I don't know."

-- from the Nov. 26, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone

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Martin, 44 and decorated with three grammy awards, look urbane and unruffled, but surely there is some puzzled hurt in his eyes when he talks about the final result of Let It Be. "It was always understood that the album would be like nothing the Beatles had done before. It would be honest, no overdubbing, no editing, truly live. Almost amateurish. When John brought in Phil Spector, he contradicted everything he had said before. When I heard the final sounds, I was shaken. They were so uncharacteristic of the clean sounds the Beatles had always used.

It's still pretty "raw" other than The Long and Winding Road, Across the Universe and maybe Let It Be. I don't understand why Martin would have
been particularly shaken if "it was always understood the album would
be... honest, no overdubbing, no editing, truly live." He seems to
contradict himself.

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