Roberta Flack

In Our Daily Breather, we ask writers and artists to recommend ways to find calm and comfort in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Roberta Flack recommends music and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.

The year after the Beatles released their final studio album, Roberta Flack’s version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was used in the Clint Eastwood film “Play Misty For Me” – launching a hit single and her singing career. Now, four decades and millions of album sales later, Flack has released an album of Beatles covers called “Let It Be Roberta.” She joins us to talk about it.

It's been 40 years since The Beatles released "Let It Be." The song ended up as the title track of the last album the group ever released together. "Let it Be" was named number 20 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 songs of All Time List" and continues to be covered, even as recently as a few months ago by Jennifer Hudson during the Haiti recovery effort.