: And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make
Thus ends Abbey Road (ok I am counting out Paul’s wierd bit about how nice a girl Her Majesty can be!) and thus end the Beatles their career as the Beatles...
Abbey Road truthfully speaking is not a Beatles album at all-infact the trend set in the White album continues here-a collection of individual songs by the band members-with hardly any musical collaboration
Infact Abbey Road’s Side one sound’s like a Lennon album (Come together, She’s so heavy and Paul’s horrible imitation-effort Oh!Darling) and Side-two, a Mcartney album with characteristic pop touches and clever structuring...
But that would mean we are forgetting far too much-what about the ballads ’Something’ and ’Here come’s the sun’- perhaps George Harrison’s most famous compositions ever... or Good old Ringo Starr’s Bubbly frolicky Octopusses’s Garden?
What about that inspired stroke of combined genius-playing Beethoven’s moonlight sonata backwards to get Because-one of the most moving songs composed by the Beatles?(that was Yoko Ono on the piano-not the FIRST time a non-Beatle was involved in the recording-much to Paul’s annoyance!)
And then that collage of songs all weaved together by Paul, that blanket the B side like a radiant magic carpet- ending with the last song of the Beatles-The End?
And Music apart-the cover features perhaps the most famous zebra crossing in the history of mankind and a Volkswagen Beetle with a number plate (IF28) that gave rise to the most persistent of rock pseudo-legends!
A magnificent final album-worthy of only one band-the Beatles!
The Songs
1 Come Together ()
2 Something ()
3 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer ()
4 Oh! Darling (**)
5 Octopus’s Garden ()
6 I Want You ()
7 Here Comes the Sun()
8 Because ()
9-16-is carefully segued ()
9 You Never Give Me Your Money
10 Sun King
11 Mean Mr. Mustard
12 Polythene Pam
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
14 Golden Slumbers
15 Carry That Weight
16 The End
17 Her Majesty ()