<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bc3223b-afd3-4a56-9763-0b38db1646db/F4ABAD88-7FCE-4E3B-8848-2B9558C4BEC5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let_It_Be_%28song%29&oldid=174747968" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let_It_Be_%28song%29&oldid=174747968" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let_It_Be_%28song%29&oldid=174747968"><H2><SPAN class="mw-headline">Inspiration</SPAN></H2> <DL> <DD> <DIV class="noprint relarticle mainarticle"><I>Main article: <A title="Jim & Mary McCartney" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_%26_Mary_McCartney">Jim & Mary McCartney</A></I></DIV> </DD> </DL> <P>McCartney said he wrote "Let It Be", after a dream he had had about his mother during the tense period surrounding the <I><A title="Let It Be (album)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_%28album%29">Get Back/Let It Be</A></I> sessions. McCartney explained that his mother—who died of cancer when McCartney was fourteen—was the inspiration for the "Mother Mary" lyric.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-Milesp20_0"><A title="" href="#_note-Milesp20">[1]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-Spitzp73-76_0"><A title="" href="#_note-Spitzp73-76">[2]</A></SUP> McCartney later said,</p> <TABLE class="cquote"><TBODY><TR><TD width="20" valign="top">“</TD><TD valign="top">It was great to visit with her again. I felt very blessed to have that dream. So that got me writing 'Let It Be'.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-Spitzp88-90_0"><A title="" href="#_note-Spitzp88-90">[3]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-Anthologyp19_0"><A title="" href="#_note-Anthologyp19">[4]</A></SUP></TD><TD width="20" valign="bottom">”</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P>He also said—in a later interview about the dream—that his mother had told him,</p> <TABLE class="cquote"><TBODY><TR><TD width="20" valign="top">“</TD><TD valign="top">It will be alright, just let it be.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-soldonsongLetItBe_0"><A title="" href="#_note-soldonsongLetItBe">[5]</A></SUP></TD><TD width="20" valign="bottom">”</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F4ABAD88-7FCE-4E3B-8848-2B9558C4BEC5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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