{"id":29463,"date":"2024-05-08T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-8-1970-the-beatles-released-their-final-album-let-it-be\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:02:48","slug":"on-this-day-may-8-1970-the-beatles-released-their-final-album-let-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-8-1970-the-beatles-released-their-final-album-let-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 8, 1970: The Beatles released their final album, &#8216;Let It Be&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-08\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, May 8, 1970 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One month after they broke up, <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> released their 12th and final studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Let It Be<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although released after the split,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Let It Be<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> was actually recorded before their previous album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Abbey Road<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was released in September 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Let It Be<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> spent four weeks at #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Album chart, thanks to future Beatles classics like the title track, \u201cGet Back,\u201d \u201cThe Long and Winding Road\u201d and \u201cAcross The Universe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A documentary about the making of the album, also called <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Let It Be<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, was released to coincide with the album. It featured footage of their infamous concert on the roof of Apple Records, which was their last live performance together.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">A restored version of the film is now streaming on Disney +, the first time it&#8217;s been available in over 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Disney is the parent company of ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 8, 1970 &#8230; One month after they broke up, The Beatles released their 12th and final studio album, Let It Be. Although released after the split,\u00a0Let It Be was actually recorded before their previous album\u00a0Abbey Road, which was released in September 1969. Let It Be spent<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-8-1970-the-beatles-released-their-final-album-let-it-be\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}