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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums"Abbey Road" released FORTY FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY? You've got to be kidding me.
The Beatles released 'Abbey Road' 44 years ago today. Read about why it is one of the best albums of all time: http://rol.st/16IHE7D What's your favorite track on the LP?
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elleng
(131,202 posts)and Amerigo Vespucci was born March 9, 1454, in Florence, Italy!!!
trof
(54,256 posts)Boomerproud
(7,970 posts)Has Paul found a pair a shoes?
Favorite...Here Comes The Sun and the entire Side 2. Side 1 ain't bad either.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It is rather silly
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)I remember reading somewhere that Paul was absolutely convinced that he had hit gold with that song, and was being a total pain about getting it just exactly right at a time when they were all pretty alienated from each other to begin with.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)too long ago. You know what I mean?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Do you know... what I mean?"
pscot
(21,024 posts)to my wife's scandisk.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)BKH70041
(961 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)It still gives me chills every time I hear it
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...is that chronologically it's the last album they recorded, even though "Let It Be" was the last one they released.
Given the way they just sort of grew apart and dissolved, having "Let It Be" as the last album makes sense to me. I've seen the film, I've heard the bootlegs, those biys weren't having all that much fun during the sessions.
So the fact that they put "Let It Be" behind them and came up with an album as strong as Abbey Road as their "last hurrah" is pretty amazing.
I agree with you RE: ""Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End"...it sounds just as powerful to me now as it did 4 decades agao.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)such wonderful piece of music...art before everything
edbermac
(15,947 posts)Though Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Octopus's Garden really don't do it for me.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)There IS a little bit of a myth surrounding teh Fab Four and how they never record a bad song. Actually, they did. A few of them. More classics than stinkers, but still...
edbermac
(15,947 posts)Lennon scornfully called them 'granny music', which they were.
Abbey Road is a good example. He mugs his way through Maxwell, and then he rips into Oh Darling, one of the better songs on the album. White Album too, Ob-La-Di another cutie song, and later screams like a maniac on Helter Skelter.
Danmel
(4,932 posts)At a record store on Utica Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, for my brother for his Bar Mitzvah. I was 9. I was so excited we listened to it so much, I had it memorized in a day.
callous taoboy
(4,590 posts)It was a dream come true. The lecture was very well done, and it covered the history of Abbey Road Studios. At one point they had volunteers play the final chord of "A Day in the Life" on the three pianos that were used on the recording: I was one of the volunteers, got to play the chord on the "Mrs. Mills" piano, the one that you hear on most of the White Album and Sgt. Peppers. Probably the highlight of my life.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)If he weren't such a great guy, I would hate him.
callous taoboy
(4,590 posts)so many great artists within it's walls, as evidenced here. Thanks for sharing.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)All these half-finished little ditties that would have been mostly "meh" as standalone songs, somehow come together and create this epic suite. One of the ultimate examples of the whole being greater than the parts.