Archived from the original on 22 October 2014.
The album debuted at number 4 in the United Kingdom, with first week sales of 28,045 copies, becoming Harrison's highest-charting album there since 1973's Living in the Material World. Some other critics wondered why Beatles songs were included, when songs from Harrison's supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (such as " Handle with Care") were overlooked. Others compared the inclusion of Beatles-related material to EMI/ Capitol ill-conceived 1976 compilation The Best of George Harrison, on which more than half of the tracks were songs recorded by the Beatles, thus downplaying the importance of Harrison's solo career.
Some reviewers welcomed the songs as essential parts of Harrison's career, since the tracks came from his landmark Concert for Bangladesh shows in 1971 yet the same commentators suggested that the quality paled in comparison to the original studio recordings. Reception to the inclusion of live versions of Beatles-era compositions " While My Guitar Gently Weeps", " Something" and " Here Comes the Sun" was mixed. In his review of Let It Roll, for Spin magazine, Andrew Hultkrans wrote that Harrison "arguably had a stronger, more consistent solo career than any of his bandmates", and added: "This hits collection avoids chronology, honouring the old and new alike as part of the same stylistic continuum." No songs from Harrison's output with the Traveling Wilburys appear on the compilation. In addition, several of his hit singles are absent from the track listing – songs such as " Bangla Desh", " Deep Blue", " Dark Horse", " Ding Dong, Ding Dong", " You", " This Song" and " Crackerbox Palace", all of which had charted in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. ĭespite being marketed as Harrison's first career-spanning hits compilation, six of his twelve studio albums were not represented at all: Wonderwall Music (1968), Electronic Sound (1969), Dark Horse (1974), Extra Texture (Read All About It) (1975), Thirty Three & 1/3 (1976) and Gone Troppo (1982). ITunes exclusively offers the digital album with a previously unreleased bonus track, Harrison's demo version of "Isn't It a Pity". Live solo recordings of three Beatles songs (" While My Guitar Gently Weeps", " Something" and " Here Comes the Sun"), from the Grammy-winning album The Concert for Bangladesh, are also included. The album includes all of Harrison's songs that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart – " My Sweet Lord", " Isn't It a Pity", " Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" and " Got My Mind Set on You", – as well as other international number 1 singles such as " What Is Life" and " All Those Years Ago". The track list was selected by George's widow, Olivia Harrison, with some assistance from close friends and family. All the tracks are presented in digitally remastered form, and the collection includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos together with an essay by music historian Warren Zanes. Let It Roll contains Harrison songs originally released on the Beatles' EMI-affiliated Apple Records and his Dark Horse label.
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