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22 February 20 August 1969. Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock.
Released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. In London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing.An image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music. The album's initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success, topping record charts in the UK and US.
Was released in October and topped US charts. The album incorporates genres such as blues.
And makes prominent use of Moog synthesizer. Sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker. It is the Beatles' only album recorded exclusively through a solid-state.
Mixing desk, which afforded a clearer and brighter sound than the group's previous records. Side two contains a medley of song fragments edited together to form a single piece. The sessions also produced a non-album single, The Ballad of John and Yoko. " backed with " Old Brown Shoe. They found the album's recording more enjoyable than the preceding Get Back. Sessions, but personal issues still permeated the band. Production lasted from February to August 1969, and the closing track The End. Marked the final occasion that all four members recorded together. Privately left the group six days before the album's release; Paul McCartney. Publicly declared the band's break-up.Upon release, detractors found Abbey Road to be inauthentic and bemoaned the production's artificial effects. Since then, many critics have hailed the album as the Beatles' finest; in particular, "Something" and Here Comes the Sun.
Are considered among the best songs George Harrison. Shortly after its release, the cover was scrutinised in connection with widespread rumours of McCartney's purported death.
EMI Studios was also renamed Abbey Road Studios. In honour of the album. After the tense and unpleasant recording sessions for the proposed Get Back. Suggested to music producer George Martin. That the group get together and make an album "the way we used to do it", free of the conflict that had begun during sessions for The Beatles.
(also known as the "White Album"). Martin agreed, but on the strict condition that all the group particularly John Lennon. Allow him to produce the record in the same manner as earlier albums and that discipline would be adhered to. No one was entirely sure that the work was going to be the group's last, though George Harrison. Said "it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line".The first sessions for Abbey Road began on 22 February 1969, only three weeks after the Get Back sessions, in Trident Studios. There, the group recorded a backing track for I Want You (She's So Heavy). Accompanying them on Hammond organ. No further group recording occurred until April because of Ringo Starr. S commitments on the film The Magic Christian.
On 6 May, the group took an eight-week break before recommencing on 2 July. Recording continued through July and August, and the last backing track, for Because. , was taped on 1 August. Overdubs continued through the month, with the final sequencing of the album coming together on 20 August the last time all four Beatles were present in a studio together. McCartney, Starr and Martin have reported positive recollections of the sessions, while Harrison said, "we did actually perform like musicians again".Lennon and McCartney had enjoyed working together on the non-album single The Ballad of John and Yoko. In April, sharing friendly banter between takes, and some of this camaraderie carried over to the Abbey Road sessions. Nevertheless, there was a significant amount of tension in the group. McCartney had an acrimonious argument with Lennon during the sessions. Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono.
Had become a permanent presence at Beatles' recordings and clashed with other members. Halfway through recording in June, Lennon and Ono were involved in a car accident. A doctor told Ono to rest in bed, so Lennon had one installed in the studio so she could observe the recording process from there.
During the sessions, Lennon expressed a desire to have all of his songs on one side of the album, and McCartney's on the other. The album's two halves represented a compromise: Lennon wanted a traditional release with distinct and unrelated songs while McCartney and Martin wanted to continue their thematic approach from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Lennon ultimately said that he disliked Abbey Road as a whole and felt that it lacked authenticity, calling McCartney's contributions "[music] for the grannies to dig" and not "real songs", and describing the medley as junk...
Just bits of songs thrown together. An EMI TG mixing desk, similar to this one, was used in the production of Abbey Road.Abbey Road was recorded on eight-track. Tape machines rather than the four-track machines that were used for earlier Beatles albums such as Sgt Pepper , and was the first Beatles album not to be issued in mono.
The album makes prominent use of guitar played through a Leslie speaker. And of the Moog synthesizer. The Moog is not merely used as a background effect but sometimes plays a central role, as in "Because", where it is used for the middle eight. It is also prominent on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "Here Comes the Sun".
The synthesizer was introduced to the band by Harrison, who acquired one in November 1968 and used it to create his album Electronic Sound. Starr made more prominent use of the tom-toms. On Abbey Road , later saying the album was tom-tom madness... I went nuts on the toms. Abbey Road was also the first and only Beatles album to be entirely recorded through a solid-state. Mixing desk, the TG12345 Mk I.As opposed to earlier thermionic valve. The TG console also allowed better support for eight-track recording. Facilitating the Beatles' considerable use of overdubbing. Emerick recalls that the TG desk used to record the album had individual limiters and compressors on each audio channel and noted that the overall sound was "softer" than the earlier valve desks.
In his study of the role of the TG12345 in the Beatles' sound on Abbey Road , music historian Kenneth Womack. Observes that the expansive sound palette and mixing capabilities of the TG12345 enabled George Martin and Geoff Emerick to imbue the Beatles' sound with greater definition and clarity. The warmth of solid-state recording also afforded their music with brighter tonalities. And a deeper low end that distinguished Abbey Road from the rest of their corpus, providing listeners with an abiding sense that the Beatles' final long-player was markedly different.
Worked as an assistant engineer on the album. He later went on to engineer Pink Floyd. S landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon.
And produce many popular albums himself with the Alan Parsons Project. John Kurlander also assisted on many of the sessions, and went on to become a successful engineer and producer, most noteworthy for his success on the scores for the Lord of the Rings. "Come Together" was an expansion of "Let's Get It Together", a song Lennon originally wrote for Timothy Leary.
A rough version of the lyrics for "Come Together" was written at Lennon's and Ono's second bed-in. Beatles author Jonathan Gould suggested that the song has only a single "pariah-like protagonist" and Lennon was "painting another sardonic self-portrait". MacDonald has suggested that the "juju eyeballs" has been claimed to refer to Dr John. And "spinal cracker" to Ono. The song was later the subject of a lawsuit.
Brought against Lennon by Morris Levy. Because the opening line in "Come Together" "Here come old flat-top" was admittedly lifted from a line in Chuck Berry.S You Can't Catch Me. A settlement was reached in 1973 in which Lennon promised to record three songs from Levy's publishing catalogue for his next album. "Come Together" was later released as a double A-side. In the liner notes to the compilation album Love.
Martin described the track as "a simple song but it stands out because of the sheer brilliance of the performers". Harrison was inspired to write "Something" during sessions for the White Album by listening to label-mate James Taylor. S Something in the Way She Moves. From his album James Taylor. After the lyrics were refined during the Let It Be sessions (tapes reveal Lennon giving Harrison some songwriting advice during its composition), the song was initially given to Joe Cocker. But was subsequently recorded for Abbey Road. Cocker's version appeared on his album Joe Cocker! "Something" was Lennon's favourite song on the album, and McCartney considered it the best song Harrison had written. Though the song was written by Harrison, Frank Sinatra. Once commented that it was his favourite LennonMcCartney. Composition and "the greatest love song ever written". Lennon contributed piano to the recording and while most of the part was removed, traces of it remain in the final cut, notably on the middle eight. Before Harrison's guitar solo. The song was issued as a double A-side single with "Come Together" in October 1969 and topped the US charts for one week, becoming the Beatles' first number-one single that was not a LennonMcCartney composition. It was also the first Beatles single from an album already released in the UK. Filmed a promotional video, which combined separate footage of the Beatles and their wives."Maxwell's Silver Hammer", McCartney's first song on the album, was first performed by the Beatles during the Let It Be sessions as seen in the film. He wrote the song after the group's trip to India. In 1968 and wanted to record it for the White Album, but it was rejected by the others as "too complicated". The recording was fraught with tension between band members, as McCartney annoyed others by insisting on a perfect performance.
The track was the first Lennon was invited to work on following his car accident, but he hated it and declined to do so. According to engineer Geoff Emerick. Lennon said it was "more of Paul's granny music" and left the session. He spent the next two weeks with Ono and did not return to the studio until the backing track for "Come Together" was laid down on 21 July.
Harrison was also tired of the song, saying we had to play it over and over again until Paul liked it. It was a real drag. Starr was more sympathetic to the song.
"It was granny music", he admitted, "but we needed stuff like that on our album so other people would listen to it". Longtime roadie Mal Evans played the anvil.This track also makes use of Harrison's Moog synthesizer. Darling was written by McCartney in the doo-wop. Style, like contemporary work by Frank Zappa. It was tried at the Get Back sessions, and a version appears on Anthology 3. It was subsequently re-recorded in April, with overdubs in July and August.
McCartney attempted recording the lead vocal only once a day. He said: I came into the studios early every day for a week to sing it by myself because at first my voice was too clear.
I wanted it to sound as though I'd been performing it on stage all week. Lennon thought he should have sung it, remarking that it was more his style. As was the case with most of the Beatles' albums, Starr sang lead vocal on one track. "Octopus's Garden" is his second and last solo composition released on any album by the band. It was inspired by a trip to Sardinia.S yacht after Starr left the band for two weeks with his family during the sessions for the White Album. Starr received a full songwriting credit and composed most of the lyrics, although the song's melodic structure was partly written in the studio by Harrison.
The pair would later collaborate as writers on Starr's solo singles It Don't Come Easy. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". Generator to create the "wind" sounds at the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" was written by Lennon about his relationship with Ono, and he made a deliberate choice to keep the lyrics simple and concise. Author Tom Maginnis writes that the song had a progressive rock. Influence, with its unusual length and structure, repeating guitar riff, and white noise. Effects, though he noted the "I Want You" section has a straightforward blues structure. The finished song is a combination of two different recording attempts. The first attempt occurred almost immediately after the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, in February 1969, with Billy Preston. This was subsequently combined with a second version made during the Abbey Road sessions proper in April.The two sections together ran to nearly eight minutes, making it the Beatles' second-longest released track. Lennon used Harrison's Moog synthesizer with a white noise setting to create a "wind" effect that was overdubbed on the second half of the track. During the final edit, Lennon told Emerick to "cut it right there" at 7 minutes and 44 seconds, creating a sudden, jarring silence that concludes the first side of Abbey Road (the recording tape would have run out within 20 seconds as it was). The final mixing and editing of the track occurred on 20 August 1969, the last day all four Beatles were together in the studio.
"Here Comes the Sun" was written by Harrison in Eric Clapton. S garden in Surrey during a break from stressful band business meetings. The basic track was recorded on 7 July 1969. Harrison sang lead and played acoustic guitar, McCartney provided backing vocals and played bass and Starr played the drums. Lennon was still recuperating from his car accident and did not perform on the track. Martin provided an orchestral arrangement in collaboration with Harrison, who overdubbed a Moog synthesizer part on 19 August, immediately before the final mix. Though not released as a single, the song attracted attention and critical praise. It has been featured several times on BBC Radio 4. Having been chosen by Sandie Shaw. S Martin Chilton said it was "almost impossible not to sing along to".Since digital downloads have become eligible to chart, it reached number 56 in 2010 after the Beatles' back catalogue was released on iTunes. Harrison recorded a guitar solo for this track that did not appear in the final mix. It was rediscovered in 2012, and footage of Martin and Harrison's son Dhani. Listening to it in the studio was released on the DVD of Living in the Material World.
"Because" was inspired by Lennon listening to Ono playing Ludwig van Beethoven. He recalled he was lying on the sofa in our house, listening to Yoko play... Suddenly, I said,'Can you play those chords backward? She did, and I wrote'Because' around them. The track features three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, which were then triple-tracked to give nine voices in the final mix. The group considered the vocals to be some of the hardest and most complex they attempted. Harrison played the Moog synthesizer, and Martin played the harpsichord. The medley of songs on side two finished with "The End". Side two contains a 16-minute medley of eight short songs, recorded over July and August and blended into a suite by McCartney and Martin. Some songs were written (and originally recorded in demo form) during sessions for the White Album and Get Back / Let It Be , which later appeared on Anthology 3.While the idea for the medley was McCartney's, Martin claims credit for some structure, adding he "wanted to get John and Paul to think more seriously about their music". McCartney has claimed that the band's dispute over Allen Klein. And what McCartney viewed as Klein's empty promises were the inspiration for the song's lyrics. However, MacDonald doubts this, given that the backing track, recorded on 6 May at Olympic Studios.
Predated the worst altercations between Klein and McCartney. The track is a suite of varying styles, ranging from a piano-led ballad at the start to arpeggiated. Both Harrison and Lennon provided guitar solos with Lennon playing the solos at the end of the track. This song transitions into Lennon's Sun King. " which, like "Because, showcases Lennon, McCartney and Harrison's triple-tracked harmonies. Following it are Lennon's Mean Mr. " (written during the Beatles' 1968 trip to India) and " Polythene Pam. These in turn are followed by four McCartney songs, She Came In Through the Bathroom Window. " (written after a fan entered McCartney's residence via his bathroom window), " Golden Slumbers. S 17th-century poem set to new music, Carry That Weight. "The End" features Starr's only drum solo in the Beatles' catalogue (the drums are mixed across two tracks in "true stereo", unlike most releases at that time where they were hard panned left or right).Fifty-four seconds into the song are 18 bars of lead guitar: the first two bars are played by McCartney, the second two by Harrison, and the third two by Lennon, and the sequence is repeated two more times. Harrison suggested the idea of a guitar solo in the track, Lennon decided they should trade solos and McCartney elected to go first. The solos were cut live against the existing backing track in one take. Immediately after Lennon's third and final solo, the piano chords of the final part of the song begin. The song ends with the memorable final line, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make".
This section was taped separately from the first, and required the piano to be re-recorded by McCartney, which was done on 18 August. An alternative version of the song, with Harrison's lead guitar solo played against McCartney's (and Starr's drum solo heard in the background), appears on the Anthology 3 album and the 2012 digital-only compilation album Tomorrow Never Knows. " Everett adds that the medley's "selfish moments are played in the context of the tonal centre.
While "generosity" is expressed in songs where C major. The medley concludes with a "great compromise in the'negotiations'" in "The End", which serves as a structurally. In response to the repeated A-major choruses of "love you", McCartney sings in realisation that there is as much self-gratifying love ("the love you take") as there is of the generous love ("the love you make"), in A major. "Her Majesty" was recorded by McCartney on 2 July when he arrived before the rest of the group at Abbey Road.
It was originally included in a rough mix of the side two (eight-song) medley (known during the recording sessions as "The Long One" and officially available for the first time on the album's 3CD Super Deluxe edition box set), appearing between Mean Mr. McCartney disliked the way the medley sounded when it included "Her Majesty", so he asked for it to be cut. John Kurlander, had been instructed not to throw out anything, so after McCartney left, he attached the track to the end of the master tape after 20 seconds of silence. The tape box bore an instruction to leave "Her Majesty" off the final product, but the next day when mastering engineer Malcolm Davies received the tape, he (also trained not to throw anything away) cut a playback lacquer of the whole sequence, including "Her Majesty".
The Beatles liked this effect and included it on the album. "Her Majesty" opens with the final, crashing chord of Mean Mr. Mustard", while the final note remained buried in the mix of "Polythene Pam, as a result of being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley on 30 July. The medley was subsequently mixed again from scratch although the song was not touched again and still appears in its rough mix on the album. Original US and UK pressings of Abbey Road do not list "Her Majesty" on the album's cover nor on the record label, making it a hidden track.
The song title appears on the inlay card and disc of the 1987 remastered CD reissue, as track 17. It also appears on the sleeve, booklet and disc of the 2009 remastered CD reissue, but not on the cover or record label of the 2012 vinyl reissue. Three days after the session for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", Harrison recorded solo demos of All Things Must Pass. Which became the title track of his 1970 triple album. The latter was re-recorded by the Beatles in April 1969 and issued as the B-side to "The Ballad of John and Yoko" the following month. All three of these Harrison demos were later featured on Anthology 3. During the sessions for the medley, McCartney recorded Come and Get It.It was assumed to be a demo recording. For another artist but McCartney later said that he originally intended to put it on Abbey Road. It was instead covered by Badfinger. While McCartney's original recording appeared on Anthology 3. In the background in 1969.
It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover, which was Kosh's idea, despite EMI claiming the record would not sell without this information. He later explained that we didn't need to write the band's name on the cover... They were the most famous band in the world. The front cover was a photograph of the group on a zebra crossing based on ideas that McCartney sketched and taken on 8 August 1969 outside EMI Studios.At 11:35 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan. Was given only ten minutes to take the photo while he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the camera.
Macmillan took six photographs, which McCartney examined with a magnifying glass before deciding which would be used on the album sleeve. In the image selected by McCartney, the group walk across the street in single file from left to right, with Lennon leading, followed by Starr, McCartney, and Harrison. McCartney is barefoot and out of step with the others. Except for Harrison, the group are wearing suits designed by Tommy Nutter.
Is to the left of the picture, parked next to the zebra crossing, which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio. After the album was released, the number plate (LMW 281F) was repeatedly stolen from the car. In 2004, news sources published a claim made by retired American salesman Paul Cole that he was the man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture. In mid-1969, Lennon formed a new group, the Plastic Ono Band.
In part because the Beatles had rejected his song Cold Turkey. While Harrison worked with such artists as Leon Russell. Preston and Delaney & Bonnie. Through to the end of the year, McCartney took a hiatus from the group after his daughter Mary. Was born on 28 August.
On 20 September, Lennon told the other Beatles he was leaving the group, six days before Abbey Road was released. The single "Something"/"Come Together" followed in October, while Lennon released the Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" the same month. The Beatles did little promotion of Abbey Road directly, and no public announcement was made of the band's split until McCartney announced he was leaving the group. By this time, the Get Back project by now retitled Let It Be.
Had been re-examined, with overdubs and mixing sessions continuing into 1970. Therefore, Let It Be became the last album to be finished and released by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before Abbey Road. In the UK, the album debuted at number one, where it remained for 11 weeks before being displaced for one week by the Rolling Stones. Altogether, it spent 81 weeks on the UK albums chart.
In the US, the album spent 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs. It was the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. In Japan, it was one of the longest-charting albums to date, remaining in the top 100 for 298 weeks during the 1970s. Abbey Road initially received mixed reviews from music critics.Who criticised the production's artificial sounds and viewed its music as inauthentic. Said that the album will "be called gimmicky by people who want a record to sound exactly like a live performance", although he considered it to be "teem[ing] with musical invention" and added: "Nice as Come Together and Harrison's Something are they are minor pleasures in the context of the whole disc Side Two is marvellous " Ed Ward.
Called the album "complicated instead of complex" and felt that the Moog synthesizer "disembodies and artificializes" the band's sound, adding that they "create a sound that could not possibly exist outside the studio". While he found the medley on side two to be their "most impressive music" since Rubber Soul. Of The New York Times. Said that, "individually", the album's songs are "nothing special".
Magazine wrote that Abbey Road "is not one of the Beatles' great albums" and, despite some "lovely" phrases. Side two's suite "seems symbolic of the Beatles' latest phase, which might be described as the round-the-clock production of disposable music effects". The truth is, their latest LP is just a natural born gas, entirely free of pretension, deep meanings or symbolism While production is simple compared to past intricacies, it is still extremely sophisticated and inventive. Found the album "refreshingly terse and unpretentious", and although he lamented the band's "cod-1920s jokes (Maxwell's Silver Hammer) and Ringo's obligatory nursery arias (Octopus's Garden)", he considered that Abbey Road "touches higher peaks than did their last album". Writing for Rolling Stone , called it "breathtakingly recorded" and praised side two especially, equating it to the whole of Sgt. Pepper " and stating, "That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite... Seems potent testimony that no, they've far from lost it, and no, they haven't stopped trying. While covering the Rolling Stones' 1969 American tour.Reported from a meeting with Greil Marcus. That opinion has shifted against the Beatles. Everyone is putting down Abbey Road. Shortly afterwards, in Los Angeles, he wrote that his colleague Ellen Willis. Had grown to love the record, adding: Damned if she isn't right flawed but fine.
Because the world is round it turns her on. Tells us he likes it too.The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Many critics have since cited Abbey Road as the Beatles' greatest album.
In a retrospective review, Nicole Pensiero of PopMatters. Called it "an amazingly cohesive piece of music, innovative and timeless". Viewed the album as being among The Beatles' finest works, even if it foreshadows the cigarette-lighter-waving arena rock. That technically skilled but critically maligned artists from Journey. Would belabor throughout the'70s and'80s.
Neil McCormack of The Daily Telegraph. Dubbed it the Beatles' "last love letter to the world" and praised its "big, modern sound", calling it "lush, rich, smooth, epic, emotional and utterly gorgeous". Felt that the album shared Sgt. S "faux-conceptual forms", but had "stronger compositions", and wrote of its standing in the band's catalogue: Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced with the possible exception of Sgt.Pepper and most tightly constructed. Ian MacDonald gave a mixed opinion of the album, noting that several tracks had been written at least a year previously, and would possibly have been unsuitable without being integrated into the medley on side two. He did, however, praise the production, particularly the sound of Starr's bass drum. Abbey Road received high rankings in several "best albums in history" polls by critics and publications.
It was voted number 8 in Colin Larkin. S All Time Top 1000 Albums. Included it in their 2006 list of the All-Time 100 Albums.
In 2009, readers of Rolling Stone named Abbey Road the greatest Beatles album. And in 2012, the magazine ranked it number 14 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Imitating the cover of Abbey Road has become popular with fans. The image of the Beatles on the Abbey Road crossing has become one of the most famous and imitated in recording history. The crossing is a popular destination for Beatles fans, and a webcam has operated there since 2011.
In December 2010, the crossing was given grade II listed. Status for its "cultural and historical importance"; the Abbey Road studios themselves had been given similar status earlier in the year. Shortly after the album's release, the cover became part of the Paul is dead. Theory that was spreading across college campuses in the US. According to followers of the rumour, the cover depicted the Beatles walking out of a cemetery in a funeral procession. The procession was led by Lennon dressed in white as a religious figure; Starr was dressed in black as the undertaker; McCartney, out of step with the others, was a barefoot corpse; and Harrison dressed in denim was the gravedigger. The left-handed McCartney is holding a cigarette in his right hand, indicating that he is an imposter, and the number plate on the Volkswagen parked on the street is 28IF, meaning that McCartney would have been 28 if he had lived despite the fact that he was only 27 at the time of the photo and subsequent release of the record. The escalation of the "Paul is dead" rumour became the subject of intense analysis on mainstream radio and contributed to Abbey Road.S commercial success in the US. Lennon was interviewed in London by New York's WMCA. And he ridiculed the rumour but conceded that it was invaluable publicity for the album. The cover image has been parodied on several occasions, including by McCartney on his 1993 live album Paul Is Live.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Parodies the cover, with the band walking near-naked across a similar zebra crossing. In 2003, several US poster companies airbrushed McCartney's cigarette out of the image without permission from Apple or McCartney. Launched a traffic safety awareness advertisement against jaywalking, using the cover and a caption that read: If they can, why can't you?All tracks are written by LennonMcCartney. I Want You (She's So Heavy). Lennon, with McCartney and Harrison.
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window. McCartney, with Lennon, Harrison and Starr. The item "The Beatles Abbey Road RARE 1969 Apple Records 1st Press Vinyl LP withMisprint" is in sale since Wednesday, December 23, 2020. This item is in the category "Music\Records". The seller is "classic_cadillac" and is located in Kirkland, Washington. This item can be shipped worldwide.