In March, Lennon turned over the Jan. 1969 tapes - which he described as "the [gooey brown stuff] load of badly recorded [gooey brown stuff] with a lousy feeling to it ever"- to legendary " The wall of sound" producer Phil Spector. Neither Klein nor Spector wanted George Martin involved. " I don't consider him in my league", Spector said, he's an arranger that's all.
The Let it be changes that Spector brought were, at best, for the worse, stifling both Pauls title song & heartfelt ballad " The long & winding road".His modification seemed so perverse at one point that Starr, who attended the overdubbing session, dragged the producer from the studio by the arm, and reprimanded him. During this time, Spector never consulted Paul about the changes he was making, which may have been Lennon & Kleins intention. After finally hearing Spectors new mixes, Paul requested changes, but Klein told him it was too late. (in late 2003, Paul & Ringo would issue a version of Let it be.. Naked, meaning Free from Spectors arrangements.