The Beatles - Abbey Road (full album)
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Release Date: 26 September 1969
Genre: Rock
Length: 47:03
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969. it is the last album the group recorded, although Let It Be was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970. it was mostly recorded in April, July, and August 1969, and reached number one in both the US and the United Kingdom. A double A-side single from the album, "Something" / "Come Together", was released in October, which also topped the charts in the US.
Tracklist:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
00:00 - 1. Come Together
04:20 - 2. Something
07:22 - 3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
10:50 - 4. Oh! Darling
14:17 - 5. Octopus's Garden
17:08 - 6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
24:55 - 7. Here Comes the Sun
28:01 - 8. Because
30:47 - 9. You Never Give Me Your Money
34:49 - 10. Sun King
37:16 - 11. Mean Mr. Mustard
38:22 - 12. Polythene Pam
39:35 - 13. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
41:34 - 14. Golden Slumbers
43:05 - 15. Carry That Weight
44:42 - 16. The End
46:54 - 17. Her Majesty
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The Beatles influence on music was so profound that when they broke up,all the peripheral music sounds moved to other directions. Yes,there were solo projects,but it wasn't the same.
Actually the major groups had "imitators" or wannabes,so the Beatles,Stones,Beach Boys,Doors,Airplane,Kinks,Cream,Animals,Who gave birth to hundreds of bands that came up with pretty darn good hit records too.
I think it's possible,if those particular groups I mentioned,had stayed intact somehow--for 10 more years--disco never would have occurred.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Abbey Road was George's shining moment where his songs were the top hits, nobody could deny he was a major songwriter in his own right after that. Something even became the 3rd most recorded song in history, right after Paul's Yesterday (1st is Gershwin's Summertime). Every song was great, even Ringo's Octopus Garden, which was kind of novelty but the Beatles had a knack for making even novelty songs sound great. Lennon reportedly wanted more of a straight ahead stripped down rock record, which would have undoubtedly been a terrific album in it's own right, but McCartney wanted to stay the course of pop music Beatles style. His idea of taking half finished songs and turning them into a medley was brilliant, of course it's because even half finished Beatles songs were fantastic songs. Paul got his way and the rest is history.
A couple of anecdotes about "She's So Heavy:"
1) The original LP has a VISUAL flourish that can never be duplicated by any format other than vinyl. The ending goes on forever, as you may recall, building in intensity but not coming to a climax- then suddenly it stops abruptly, and the LP groove is designed to IMMEDIATELY reach the end and return the stylus to the player! Quite an ingenious trick.
2) Vin Scelsa, the most personable of DJs at WNEW-FM in NYC, loved to tell stories, sometimes pulling a prank on the listeners. One night he described how he was visiting the Abbey Road Studio in England, and something in the trash outside caught his eye. It was a recording tape, so he rescued it and (somehow) managed to play it. Now, he describes with the utmost sincerity, he's going to play the tape for us: an unused ALTERNATE version of "She's So Heavy"- "With only one difference, listen carefully!" So he plays the thing- which again, is very long, and of course the same as always- until the finale. As that musical maelstrom goes on and on, SOMETHING DIFFERENT begins to blend into the music... It was so ominous and disturbing, I remember to this day the hair standing up on the back of my neck!
He took the theme music from "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Bernard Herrmann- organ music played in the lowest register possible- and slowly mixed it into the finale of the Beatles song! It was a relief when I finally recognized it, and realized we'd been had by a master con artist! Good times for sure.
-RM
George Martin too.
--GRA
There's a book called "Tell Me Why" which analyzes EVERY Beatles song- unpretentiously and fairly, I thought- and describes how they came about. One song Lennon absolutely HATED was McCartney's "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" !
That book and a biographical one called "Shout!" together make up a great summation of the group and their music.
-RM
I think I bought "Shout"(paperback)many years ago. Where it is,I do not know(at the moment),lol.
--GRA
CCR and the Byrds. Dylan,I suppose. So many great ones.
--GRA
George Martin, the "Fifth Beatle," was a genius and THE most influential figure of that era's music. His arrangement of "Yesterday"- which McCartney thought would make the group a laughingstock and kill their career- changed rock music from twanging guitars and banging drums into something much better, something with universal appeal. For around a decade we had the best pop music ever, a world where the Doors and Led Zeppelin could co-exist in the top 40 alongside the Carpenters, John Denver, Donovan, and a horde of others. Black music, white music, folk, novelty, instrumentals, rock with classical arrangements- a genuinely diverse (excuse the word) musical landscape.
Now we've had almost 40 years of NOTHING.
-RM
I agree,RM. I think I've written what you said,verbatim,a few times,the last decade or so. The radio was unbelievably fun to listen to--for me--starting about the summer of 1967,in my parents' two person business,
that they operated at the time. I'd go there when school was out and they had the radio on and I got plenty of great songs to listen to eight hours a day. After that,my transistor radio was always on--and in 1967,I wasn't even 10 yet. Great years.
--GRA
Saw the French silent movie serial "Les Vampires" at MOMA- around six hours, with a dinner intermission- NO intertitles at all, they gave you a printed synopsis when you entered the theatre! It was a breeze to sit through, because they had a brilliant piano player who kept it lively, improvised, and even did sound effects (he had a car horn!)- mentioning it here because at one point in the movie some pallbearers are toting a coffin, and he played a few bars of "Carry That Weight"!
Saw it again when it came out on video, with a typically-droning new score added- it put me to sleep!
-RM
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