The long and rewinding road

The Beatles’ 1970 “Let It Be,” their last released album, is going to be reissued this fall -- but in the “back-to-basics” version that Paul McCartney prefers over the more elaborate one designed at the time by producer Phil Spector.

“It’s the de-Spectorized version,” Ringo Starr told Rolling Stone. “Same tracks, same people.”

Spector was brought in by John Lennon after the feuding Beatles reached an impasse on it. “Paul was always totally opposed to Phil,” the Beatles drummer said. “I told him on the phone [recently], ‘You’re bloody right again: It sounds great without Phil.’ ”

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Lee Margulies