Indeed, it’s loaded with McCartney compositions such as the blues shouter “Oh, Darling”, the gorgeous ballad “Golden Slumbers”, and arguably the worst song of his Beatles career, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. Many think that Abbey Road is dominated by Paul McCartney, who was desperate to maintain a sense of unity and group dynamics with the rocker “She Came in through the Bathroom Window”. The final song is not “The End”, but rather a cheeky little ditty less than half a minute long called “Her Majesty”. Abbey Road Anniversary Edition is part warm and blissful (“Here Comes the Sun”, “Sun King”), with gorgeous harmony (“Because”), a funky reggae-tinged homage to Chuck Berry (“Come Together”), and a beautiful suite of seven songs that close side Two. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1968’s The Beatles comes this three-disc (and one Blu-ray audio) restoration of Abbey Road, which includes a 100-page hardcover book of pictures and recollections. On the heels of 50th anniversary boxed set releases of 1967’s Sgt. For many at the time of its release, Abbey Road came off as a bittersweet farewell and a tempting forecast of things to come for John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It also conveys their love of creating and playing music with each other, their obvious competitive nature, and their need to release something much more cohesive and brilliant than the Let It Be song, movie, and album. That they came back shortly afterward for an intense six-month series of recording dates - which would become Abbey Road - is testimony to their perseverance as professionals. That experience, known informally as the Get Back Sessions, was by all accounts a disastrous time for a group already fractured by so many issues. Some will argue that Let It Be, released in April 1970 as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, was their swan song, but it was fully recorded (save for some 1970 finishing touches from producer Phil Spector) between 1968 and January 1969. If Beatles fanatics are anything, they are statisticians and absolutists.
They recorded their final album, Abbey Road, in the summer of 1969, before any member was 30 years old.
The Beatles’ copious output seems to have exceeded their existence as a recording group, which lasted only seven years.
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