Nobody knows why Phil Spector made that call, but even by Spector standards, it’s bizarre. So why wasn’t it on the original album? Good question. Remixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, it sounds realer than ever. That’s why “Don’t Let Me Down” is the heart of Let It Be. John wasn’t wrong - the song is totally, defiantly, shamelessly corny, because it’s a confession of how he needs his fellow Beatles as much as he needs Yoko. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'
“We’ve got a chance to smile at people, like ‘All You Need Is Love.’ So that’s me incentive for doing it.” Working on “Don’t Let Me Down,” the other Beatles note how “corny” it is. “The whole point of it is communication,” John says in the brand-new Get Back book, full of photos and dialogue from the sessions. And like the movie, the box is full of moments that demolish the cliche that the Beatles hated one another. The Let It Be box is the companion to the eagerly awaited new docuseries Get Back from director Peter Jackson, which debuts on Nov. You can hear the band develop “Don’t Let Me Down” over the course of the box, until it comes to feel like the whole Beatles story in one song: a map to the long and winding road of their messy, doomed, inescapable friendship. John sounds terrified of the emotional leaps he’s taking, but he leans on the other Beatles to back him up and carry him through the song.
“Don’t Let Me Down” is John Lennon’s raw love ballad to Yoko Ono, much like “Two of Us,” Paul McCartney’s song for Linda. Of all the revelations on the Beatles’ new Let It Be box set, the biggest is the song that didn’t even make the original album.
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