Cover art comparison

It looks like the cover was taken from the CD booklet, enlarged, and left unchanged—only the white frame around the photos is gone. The font of the title was swapped out for something more “fancy”.

The print quality is pretty low, like the covers of Animals, Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road, It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, and some other releases from 1992-93. The halftones is clearly visible.

Back sleeve

The back cover is black and white, the photos were mirrored.

A booklet

Some copies of Let It Be came with 16-page booklets that had the album’s history, photos, and song translations.

New “fake” sleeves

When I was looking for a copy of the record in decent condition for my book, I came across an ad on one of the marketplaces selling records with covers in perfect condition:

I was a bit puzzled by these covers. The print quality was surprisingly good, and the front side, with the Antrop logo in the corner, looked just like the original album cover. The seller said his records were original from Antrop, but he printed the sleeves himself, and they were new.

And he’s not the only one. A lot of sellers are now replacing old, worn-out sleeves with high-quality copies.

Let it Be in the Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union, Let it Be was perfomed in russian with a different lyrics in the 1970s. It also became a mondegreen (read about Beatles mondegreens in the USSR).

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© 2024 Artur Netsvetaev, interviews with Nikolai Kibalchich, Yuri Trifonov.