Product Description

After the laborious disorganisation and infighting that characterised early 1969's LET IT BE sessions (as famously captured on film), the fractious four were willing to let GeorgeMartin take the reins and to work with him as a cohesive unit for the much more succinct production of their (and the decade's) swan song, ABBEY ROAD. The superb performances makethe album an artistic high point for all members of the group. Paul McCartney inspired the suite of songs that begins with "You Never Give Me Your Money". Often thought of as two long medleys, the songs that fill most of the second half ofABBEY ROAD segue seamlessly into one another, but are programmed as separate CD tracks. George Harrison had his first A-side on a Beatles' single ("Something"); John Lennon contributed a pair of heavy rockers ("Come Together" and "I Want You"); and Ringo Starr's "Octopus's Garden" was a favourite with children.

Track Listing

1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
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. End Her Majesty

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #499 in Music
• Released on: 1988-11-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty", which follows. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

AND IN THE END ........
The Beatles final album (last to be recorded) is a mixed bag. At one end of the spectrum there are Harrison's two landmark songs - 'Something' & 'Here Comes The Sun' then there is Lennon's frankly baffling 'I Want You Shes's So Heavy' and McCartneys trite 'Maxwells Silver Hammer'.
This is the sound of a band falling apart. Of course, this being the Beatles, there are also moments of pure brilliance - 'Come Together' is John's last great Fabs song and his band mates, especially Paul, help turn the swampy blues track into a minor masterpiece. Ringo's jaunty 'Octopus's Garden' may be a lightweight kids song but the inventive arrangement and clever harmonies are often overlooked.
Abbey Road though is Macca's album. 'She Came In Through The Bathroom Window' is almost classical in it's composition, whilst his work on the long medley shows a man in full command of his obvious talents. George also excells throughout and his distinctive lead guitar work is often outstanding.
Lennon was, at times, very critical of the overbearing McCartney and on Abbey Road the division between the two was never more obvious. But it's Paul thats holds the record together and it's to his, and George Martins, credit that the results are so good. Free to experiment with newly installed 8 track recording equipment the Beatles managed to fashion a complex and polished sounding album that lacked only in consistencey and focus.
Had 'Come and Get It', 'Maybe I'm Amazed' or Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' made the cut then this could well have been The Beatles finest hour. It's sounds a lot better than the scrappy 'Let It Be' and as a swangsong record still manages to stand head and shoulders above the competiton of the late 60's. The iconic cover shot was the icing on the cake.

THE LOVE YOU TAKE IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE YOU MADE
Que frase mas magica: "Y al final el amor que tomas es el amor que tu distes"; con tan brillante frase (que Lennon llamo "cosmica") los Beatles cerraron con un tremendo broche de oro su brillante carrera discografica; aunque LET IT BE fue su ultimo disco lanzado, en realidad ABBEY ROAD fue su ultimo trabajo discografico como grupo; ¡¡¡Y QUE TRABAJO!!! DEJARON LO MEJOR PARA EL FINAL; considerado el mas increible album despues de PEPPER y REVOLVER, este disco tiene los brillantes rocks COME TOGETHER, I WANT YOU, lindas baladas como SOMETHING (de George), OH DARLING, brillantes pops como HERE COMES THE SUN (si, tambien de george), armonias exquisitas como BECAUSE (escuchen como se funden las voces de John, Paul Y George), canciones ingeniosas como OCTOPUSS GARDEN (la segunda composicion de Ringo) y el mitico y grandioso MEDLEY DE ABBEY ROAD que inicia con YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, la preciosa SUN KING (con palabras ¡¡en castellano!!), la movidisima POLITHYNE PAM, una soberbia SHE CAME THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW, una linda cancion de cuna GOLDEN SLUMBERS y nos lleva al extasis final en THE END, ¡¡¡que gran final!!! para terminar con una mini-composicion de Paul HER MAJESTY... UN GRAN FINAL PARA UN GRAN GRUPAZO!!!

Addictive
I tell you what. This was the best way for the Beatles to end the show. Every song makes you want to listen to the whole disc again. A great triumph. Beatles Rule!