ONE LAST EFFORT | THE STORY OF ABBEY ROAD BY THE BEATLES | CLASSIC ALBUMS
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- After finishing the Get Back project and with the single at the top of the charts, the beatles repeated the same formula they had done months earlier when releasing the white album, which was to get away from the beatles and devote themselves to personal projects, John lennon was the most active, with his Bed-in For Peace' in Amsterdam, and his trips to Montreal and toronto. Ringo and Paul went on vacations and met in the south of France. And George harrison stayed in london producing to the new apple artists and enjoying his work as a studio musician. Soon, the 4 would be back in the city and although many doubted about the future of the band, Paul McCartney called George Martin to tell him that the four beatles were planning to record a new album.
After all the tensions of the white album and after leaving the band, george martin remained skeptical, he doubted beyond mccartney's good intentions, he didn't believe that george and ringo wanted this, much less that john with all his projects wanted to return to the same thing, and before martin's questioning towards mccartney, paul was very clear: You don't have to worry about it, we want to work like in the old days, and we want you to produce it.
That's how abbey road was born.
My mother played this album on headphones into her belly as she rocked in a rocking chair for me before I was born. I therefore declare Abbey Road the best album of all time. Miss you ma.
Ah, nice!
My mom was born in 1930 and she was my best friend and favorite person to spend time with and listen to music. She was around when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show and loved to sing _anything_ she loved. From Sinatra to The Beatles. Even some Motley Crue (Home Sweet Home) .
I was able to take her to see Paul in 2020 on Easter Sunday and man, watching her sing the "Nah na na na's " during Hey Jude and so many others at her first stadium show is a memory I'll cherish forever.
I also took her to Sinatra and that was another great night and it was just the two of us and we both had a great time.
You're Mom sounds so cool man.
God rest both our Mom's souls and yeah, I'll second that...
I miss you Ma
Something in the way you moved....
That's Real Love, Indeed 😊
God Bless Your Mother....🙏
When you look at the pictures of them and they are so young, it’s amazing the amount of creativity they had and all the accomplishments before they were 30.
Thank you for putting this together. What amazes me about Abbey Road is that I actually enjoy it more with every listen - there aren't may albums like that. It's as if I hear it for the first time every time, and there's always something new i pick up that I didn't notice before. And as with almost all Beatles output the range of emotions evoked is tremendous. I've cried happy tears many times while listening and thinking about how this was the closing of their union. If I could have one wish it would be for the Beatles to have performed The Long One together live.
Fabulous observation.
There's absolutely no doubt that with today's stereo technology and numerous re-mastered issues, the sound is infinitely better, clearer, and the bass is much easier to pick out; maybe that's one reason the album seems to get better and better. I think the Beatles produced at least 3 albums with better songs, but by the time they made Abbey Rd they were at their peak as studio performers, with both their individual instruments and their singing, especially the vocal harmonies.
11:19 Ummm pretty sure Clapton had no hand in the composition of Here Comes The Sun.
Agree!! Eric said
“It was a beautiful spring morning, and we were sitting at the top of a big field at the bottom of the garden,” the legendary guitarist added. “We had our guitars and were just strumming away when he started singing ‘it’s been a long cold lonely winter,’ and bit by bit, he fleshed it out.”
Here Comes the Sun is the best George song, hands down.
One Of My All Time Favorite Beatles Album, The Other One is Magical Mystery Tour
My 19 year old grandson wanted a record player for his birthday .. The first album on his wish list was Abbey Road . With no input or push from me. I guess he just knew. 💖🎸🎸🥁🎸💖
The album is perefection.I bought it when it came out and still have it in my collection.
I'll bet those of you below rating which albums 'rate what' on their list, weren't around when the albums were first released. If you had been, you'd have a fondness for each of them in their time, which stand up on their own and can't be rated.
Amazing how The Beatles made all of this great music in just eight years.
They were all under thirty years old when they broke up! The best EVER!
Yep! Pretty remarkable. Astounding really.
Yes, its beyond amazing. If it wasnt for their similar pattern in the songs and especially in their solo careers, I would have suspected they had songwriters? They did something "supernatural" during these 7 to 8 years. In the first years, John was leading them and dominated with the excellent A Hard Days Night album and from 1967 Paul took the lead but George should have had more influence and perhaps co-written songs with Paul and John.
Absolutely!
The best band if all time
It's unbelievable this album hasn't dated one bit since it was made 53 years ago. It's timeless.
It's dated a bit. But it's still all right.
@@MitchHawkes nice joke
That’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s a classic.
I was 8 when it was released. The next summer, I was 9, I played it the album over and over nonstop. Well over 100 times. Yet I still like it today, and frankly never grew tired of it.
My favorite Beatle album. The best
With Abbey Road being their last collaborating together, The Beatles went out in a blaze of glory.
Even though Let It Be would come out after it.
@@allenf.5907 Let It Be was put on the shelve and the Beatles then proceeded to record Abbey Road. so that was their last effort together. Then Let It Be was taken off the shelve polished up for release which made it their last released studio album but Abbey Road was their last effort together as a bad.
Here Comes The Sun is the most beautiful song I ever heard in my life. I feel it deeper than bones every time I hear it. When I heard George Harrison's first solo album I was blown away at a level I haven't been before or after. Such angelic music. As I got older I appreciated so much George's stuff.
SO TRUE about Here Comes The Sun for me as well!! The first few notes....I cannot explain it what it does to my heart and soul. EVERY time I feel tears well up....followed by a smile and a feeling of wanting to say...."Thanks George. THANK YOU for this beautiful creation."
When I was 15 and starting High School I wanted to BE George Harrison! I even tried to dress like his Abbey Road look. I never got close but it was fun trying for awhile.
Find "Devil and The Deep Blue Sea" and "Ride Rajbun" by George. The latter he wrote for an animated kids' series for charity. The former was on his "brainwashed" album. George didn't get the promotion that John and Paul got, so I will have to go through all of his songs because I'm sure there are a few more I've never heard of that are interesting.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL I will check those out the second I type this. Thank you for the heads up. I'm sure I would of found it, but you sped that process up exponentially.
CHAD, I AGREE WITH YOU WITH ONE ADDITION. I, LIKE FRANK SINATRA, THINK THAT "SOMETHING" IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG EVER RECORDED
You really couldn't get a more perfect album than Abbey Road.
A great way to end the group. Its insane that it was 8 short years between Please Please Me and Abbey
Revolver is very close though if not better.
I'm a big beatles fan no disrespect but...
Dark side of the moon
@Jacob Hanson u right
It was a great ending.
"Let's just name it after the street outside" is such a ringo thing to do
To be fair, it's also the name of the studio they recorded it in.
It's been a hard day...night!
@@brette9309 they recorded at EMI studios. the studio was renamed Abbey Road Studios After the album. Isn’t that cool ?! (The street they crossed was Abbey Road)
@@brette9309the studio was named after the album
McCartney named Abbey Road and arranged for the photo
I love the fact that even though these four men were ready to call it quits and their egos were at a critical level, they remained professional. They were real men who put their craft above pettiness. They wanted to go out with what they hoped was their best effort and didn't let personal conflicts interfere. What an important lesson that today's bands could learn from.
There was no discussion Abbey Road would be their last album. There are even tapes of The Beatles discussing a next album and how many songs each member would get
@@lex1633 still, there was a lot of strife and frustration going in to it. They held it as long as they could. It had to just, be.... let it be. I will always love the Beatles.
It was tend to be toxic relationship among 4 of them , it was love and hate to the bone , and you just couldn't stand it anymore..
It was like a time bomb that just could explode anytime..
They "didn't" remain professional. They disbanded.
McCartney's voice of reason was not enough to persuade Lennon, who was tripping in some new direction that didn't lead too much.
"real men"
John Lennon was totally wrong, McCartney's vocals are absolutely perfect for Oh Darling! It wouldn't have been right for Lennon.
Are you kidding? Lennon would have sang that song great! But, Paul did sing it great.
@@michaelharrington75 No I'm not kidding, Lennon didn't have the range to hit the really high parts, that's why he couldn't do songs like Long Tall Sally and I'm Down.
It's my all time favorite McCartney vocal.
No one could have pulled it off like Mccartney in my opinion. ❤
If you hear Lennon singing “Get Back” it sounds much better than McCartney. Probably the case for most songs to be honest but Paul did a great take on “Oh Darlin’”
This is my favourite album. It highlights the best of each of the Beatles. In my opinion the creative juices were enhanced by the restraint Paul and John put on each other. While I have loved a lot of their solo stuff, nothing have ever matched the best of their collaboration. I love George’s music and Ringo always hits the spot.
Thanks for putting this video together.
I loved them all. Together. And solo. Listen to all the music even now !! What a phenomenon they were. ❤️
I always felt that Paul needed John's cynicism, and John needed Paul's sweetness. As many good songs as they both did solo, the parts were not equal to the whole. JMHO. Also IMO, George was the best of the three post-Beatles.
this album is the pinnacle of rock and roll. The Beatles could have played/wrote any kind of music, and better than anyone else. what a talent these guys were.
By faaaarrrr the best best best band of all time. I cannot even believe they have done so much in such short time. I'm so thankful to be able to live in their time in history 🙏
Totally agree. I was born to them and will die to them. The first things I remember seeing were these album covers. Even before, I could appreciate the music. I have listened to them all my life and still love them.
I remember sitting in the lounge with my beautiful older brother and lights out. We listened to Abbey Road so intently that it melted into my brain. The final medley is just beyond description.
same here, that medley is a masterpiece
Mary jane will do that
John Lennon was quite critical of that medley. Which is odd as some of his best studio performances are contained in it. I have a strong gut feeling he only said that because he was getting jealous that Paul was kind of taking musical control of what he considered his band. Here nor there, it left us with great material. I hope he realized that before his demise.
My ONLY complaint has always been that the guitar lead trade-off in THE END should have gone longer. A lot longer! I saw Paul in Salt Lake City back in 2010, and he and his boys extended it a little. But maybe I'm just a guitar freak. And who second guesses the Beatles anyway, right!?
I feel so blessed to be born at a time when I could hear the most amazing band in the world do their thing (and the thousands of spin off bands that they inspired)!
No matter how many books you can read or documentaries you can watch....nobody will ever know how it really was to be alive while these guys were doing their thing in real time...unless you were indeed alive while they were doing it. Riding my bike 6 miles at 7 years old to buy Revolver and having to hide it from the folks so they wouldn't know that I had gone past my limit... So many memories.
The first concert I ever attended was The Beatles -- September 16, 1964 ai City Park Stadium in New Orleans. They opened with Twist & Shout.
What's the deal with the AI voice?
Its gay
For those who don’t know, Let it Be was the last album the Beatles released but it was recorded before Abbey Road. Many saw Let it Be as their finale when in reality it was Abbey Road. Although I like Abbey Road, I found Rubber Soul and Revolver their masterpieces.
I agree - although Pepper comes a very close third to those two albums. All Beatles albums have greatness about them of course. Abbey Road has a lot of high points, but some tracks I really never cared for much. Let it Be is - IMO - the exception - although it has a handful of great songs on it, many tracks sound like what they are, unfinished snippets or collections of unfinished snippets run together but rather more obviously and less expertly than previous times they had done that.
Rubber Soul more recently stands out for me as their most beautiful album. Abbey Rd is a masterpiece and hard to place it 2nd. Most of their best albums had just two weaker songs. Rubber Soul has only one weaker song. Originally Sgt Pepper album was to include Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields but were pulled off early for a single. This might have then been their best album. All their albums were so dam good (With The Beatles possibly a bit less so). Just my opinion
@@manormouse1410 I agree. I am not a huge fan of the White Album. Not that there were not great songs on it. Their legacy will never be repeated.
Yeah...Rubber Soul
Agreed. Both albums came at the band's most interesting time: mid-career.
Wish Lennon wasn’t so bitter and just found a place to understand Paul’s granny music, which I love. It takes me to be in a certain mood but it’s good to listen to
I think the granny music is quite bad, and Paul shouldn't have pushed the group to accept it. However, John was also critical to some of his own songs pre-Ono, for example Eight days a week.
For me, it seems he wanted to start a new life by critisizing McCartney and his own early songs. Did he want to impress Ono? If John should be critical, it is to some low quality songs he pushed into White Album (Bungalow Bill, Warm Gun, Im so tired, Yer Blues, Sexie Sadie, Revolution #9). What did he achieve after Beatles: Imagine, Attica state, Working class hero, Cold turkey. Very short list of good Lennons songs after he left Beatles. And why did he particapte in Don't Worry Kyoko if he had any kind of quality ambitions?
The best album ever made. My children will play it, in full, at my funeral, then a party to follow!
What a fool.
Can I come?
Absolutely
It may get a little awkward at Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 😅
We played Blackbird at my son's. He was 27.
The 2 best songs on the album are George's. Something and Here Comes The Sun. Also his collaboration with Ringo Octopus Garden.
Even John has said Georges songs were the best on that album. But we have to take anything John says with a grain of salt. I think most feel his best studio work is on the side 2 medley yet John said he didn't like it.. go figure.
Abbey road isn’t my favorite of their albums but it might be their best. Its hard not to shed a tear when you reach the end
Abbey Road is your favourite album, think about it and admit it to yourself and to us. Aunt Jean says hello.
The Beatles...the most iconic group ever...made all of their wonderful music...and broke up....before ANY of them were 30 years old which is astounding
Every time I hear that, it really blows my mind. They created an incredible amount of material in just eight short years.
Astounding and tragic.
They totally revolutionazed popular music in those years.
Side 2 has this amazing, slow building crescendo and intensity that builds through the medley, culminating to this incredible swan song of The End. Utter perfection.
Yes ...I agree , side two is amazing the way it builds .
I loved this video! They landed in America when I was 13. To me and my brother and friends nothing mattered but The Beatles. It was a time like no other. The '60's were legendary and the best time of my life!
I wish music was that important to kids these days. For my generation it was Nirvana.
Yes!
Hey, Kathy! I'm 72 and grew up with the Beatles, too. The sixties was best described by Dickens: " It was the best of times, ( the Beatles and all the music, ) it was the worst of times, ( Kennedy's assassinated, riots, Vietnam and the Cold War. ) I wouldn't trade a minute of it.
Same here kathy, i was born 1952..our childhood became magic in 1963 around november 63 after kennedy, when word got out ed sullivan was bringing them to his show. There were beatles chewing gum cards, dolls, cartoons, music on radio nearly constantly spring of 64. Yes, we grew up with them. Was a magic time for us.
Ditto to all these posts !! I am 70. Born in 53. It was a time, wasn't it ?! Forever ❤️👍💯✌️🔥
Everyone goes on about Revolver or Rubber Soul being the best Beatles album , but it's Abbey Road for me.
That goes double for me lass.
They are my 3 favorite.....and they rotate upon recent listen! lol
I marvel at the Beatles from start (Love Me Do-Please, Please, Me) to finish (Abbey Road) They didn't just produce hits but masterpieces.
Actually Let it Be was their last album…..
@@MarylandGuy-ey3st I may be wrong but Let It Be was their last album to be released. Abbey Road was the last one they recorded.
What album do I play the most? Abbey Road. What framed posters do I have hanging on my office wall? Only Beatles. I feel lucky to have witnessed greatness back in the day!!
For years this was my favorite Beatles album and it’s the one that got me into their music. It’s also the first album of theirs that I had heard in its entirety and I was completely blown away. Before that, I thought they just made throwaway pop songs. I still think it’s their most deeply moving experience. In that sense it’s actually a stronger comparison to Pet Sounds than Sgt. Pepper’s. If I’m taking a road trip for example, it’s the album that I can put on and listen to from start to finish and it’s riveting and deeply engrossing every time. Five stars and easily one of the greatest albums of all time in my book.
You're completely right.
It's ageless and timeless.
If I only could listen to one album for the rest of my life, I would be satisfied with this one
I bought every Beatle record as soon as it was released. (Sadly, I did not keep care and track of them over the years.) Anyway, I have always believed Abbey Road was their best of all. And that is saying a lot given the great stuff they had already produced. I just can't say enough about the Beatles. I remember their Ed Sullivan debut like it was yesterday. Their impact on music, culture, society, etc., cannot be measured.
The Beatles changed my attitude toward playing music though college, med school, and over the past 40 years of at home recording.
The 2 best songs on the album are both George's songs.
indeed, both are absolute masterpieces. nothing to be changed. Come together is absolutely amazing but slightly dull at parts, and then paul's song is pretty damn good too oh darling. However, if I could choose a best sound from all music it would be the middle part of something.
@@thomaskoukouris4070 I want you is top 1 beatles song, it's pure led zeppelin style and I love it
The stupendous Side 2 medley -- and then the four lads striding across that zebra walk and into history. The perfect photo for a perfect album -- and unparalleled career. The greatest band in history -- musically, sociologically and culturally. So glad I was around for all of it.
Not the greatest, they were not great musicians not virtuosos
@@LONEEAGLE_space_rock But beside that.....The Beatles are the greatest band ever !
@@LONEEAGLE_space_rock I repeat: the greatest band in history.
@@LONEEAGLE_space_rock There are plenty of "virtuosos" who CAN´T write a simple, a very simple, song! Nothing comes out of their soul. Just the (enormous) ability to play an (or even many) instrument. Can only play what others have created!...
@@LONEEAGLE_space_rock You don't have to be a virtuoso to be a great musician. They were great musicians.
They say that The Beatles changed the world , I believe that and with this brilliant album their legacy is secure !
Abbey Road is my favorite Beatles record👏
Mother huh? That makes a lot of sense when you consider John and Yoko’s relationship.
“I want you-- she’s so heavy “is the masterpiece. It’s heavy, alright.
The Side 2 "Medley" of Abbey Road is absolute perfection. Whether intentional or not (even from its creators) it is one of the most magical pieces of art ever created.
Interesting fact. John Lennon had no hand in the production of Harrison's Iconic Beatles song "Here comes the Sun." Lennon was in the Hospital recovering from a motorcycle accident leaving only Paul and Ringo to help George create the timeless track.
Car accident I thought ?
Yes, crashed his car into a ditch in Scotland with Yoko, her little daughter and his little son in it. Presumably opiate impaired because he was a H eroin addict at that point. His first few days back in the studio were spent laying on that bed with Yoko, the two taking occasionally delivery of packets of white powder.
@@RS-nf4vz An unintentional precursor to I Me Mine.
Abbey Road is The Beatles album I've listened to the most, Lennon and McCartney's songs are expected to be genius but George's contribution to the album really make it a masterpiece imo, I always thought it was the 2nd last album growing up.
The medley is so good that most of the recent covers sound really good too, some with interesting variations or subtle differences. It just gets better as the decades roll by. The fact that 60s and 70s music gets covered so much proves that song writing is becoming a lost art.
When those first few chords of You Never Give Me Your Money comes in ... I had to capture my breath just then. That starts the most incredible segment of music ever created. The Beatles at just some other-worldly level of greatness they'd achieved throughout their career and bringing it all together. They are the only thing that ever make me think a higher level exists to life/
I got to agree. You Never Give Me Your Money it's probably my favorite track on Abbey Road.
Personally, my Favorite Album is Abby Road. I was a Senior in High School when it was released. I had every Beatle Album in my Collection. I saw them on Ed Sullivan in 1964. I’m grateful I got to take the entire ride. They influenced my life and music more than anyone. I think they wanted to present themselves as the best they could be on Abby Road. So happy George got his Two superlative songs on there…but they ALL contributed to each other in those recordings. Paul’s Bass lines and Harmonies on Something. They were ALL working their magic together for each other. Paul’s last line In the End…I think is the greatest single lyric in the history of rock. What a way to say Goodbye!…to each other…and to all of us! ❤Bravo 👏👏👏👏
I too was a senior in high school when Abbey Road was released. I couldn't agree with you more. 100%
My favourite album, with Revolver as a close second. The Beatles are a legend, far above any other band.
The first one I bought, in 68 was the Double White. Still love it.
@@anzacman5 My first purchase too 🙂
@@alafenetre81 like minds.
agreed, def my top 2. pepper and rubber soul are right there though. White album too, gosh these guys were good
Yes
The five together had serious magic. An orchestra’s worth of input from 5 people, studio’s paid for. They came up with their bare minimum. Pure brilliance.
Thank you for a superb story telling of the album. The break up of the Beatles was a tragic day for music, but how great is it that they gave us this masterpiece as their final gift.
It wasn't superb. They conflated the White album and Let It Be in terms of what led to the making of Abbey Road. Shoddy.
‘Like Mccartney, Ringo believed his chances of survival without the beatles were limited’ …. Who writes this stuff?
They did belive they wouldn't make it as solo artists (ringo didn't really)
It's based on things they've both said in interviews. McCartney didn't believe in his chances without the Beatles and is said to have gone into a depression. He was totally against signing with Allen Klein. The other 3 were against him. He later shut himself away from them in Scotland with Linda. Didn't answer any calls; no one knew where he was. That's why, rewind back to early January, he was the one trying to keep it together for the Get Back project, and he was the one enthusiastic about Abbey Road project and rang up George Martin. He, as well as Ringo, was concerned about the band's future, with John running off to play in his Plastic Ono band, and more focused on Yoko, and George seeming less interested in the Beatles.
But that's what they actually thought lmao. Paul was extremely depressed after the band broke up and he wasn't writting any music.
It’s true.
by abbey road, they all knew the beatles were done as a group, but wanted to go out on top of their game.& as usual, they succeeded.its a masterpiece that still stands the test of time.
It was the perfect way to go out granted John said in the Rolling Stone interview that he was pretty much done with the Beatles by the White Album. Paul kept it together. The Get Back doc shows both George and Ringo were getting sick of it as well but they came back regardless. It has to be really difficult for anyone to quit such a successful band but at the same time if they stayed together just for the fans or money the music most likely would have suffered.
Yoko kind of got a bum rap. Many feel the breakup was her fault but it seems it was inevitable regardless. The only difference might have been John being a lot more miserable if not for Yoko in his life.
Abbey Road - The most perfect album ever made from its start to its splendid ending. Absolutely adore it and deserves listening to at least once a week - in full.
Love it, but Sticky Fingers, Dark Side of the Moon and Who's Next are all better.
It’s good, but Whos Next is better
@@gordeauxd Head to head in horseracing terms - "Dark Side" by a short half head from "The Wall".
Skip Maxwell’s tho 🤣
I wonder why so many folks don´t understand Paul´s concept of childrens´, old fashioned and humorous songs. Without *Maxwell´s Silver Hammer*, *Ob-La-Di*, *When I´m 64* and the other songs their albums would have been just as unidimensional like the Stones-albums. Since their first more ambitious album *Revolver* they showed that the attribute beat- or rock-band was way too constrictive for them. Let´s say they were a music band and played about anything from *Helter Skelter* to *Blackbird*, from *Your mother should know* to *Got to get you into my life* and that´s what made them the unique Beatles.
You're absolutely right!
Extreme quality, extreme diversity: that's what sets The Beatles apart from everyone else.
Exactly! I've never understood that people don't get that? Can't they see that's why they love them? I love that Paul didn't care what people thought or wanted to be seen as cool and was his own man and wrote songs for kids. As a kid Maxwell would of been song I liked. At school we used to sing yellow Submarine, when I'm 64 etc and this was before I knew who the Beatles were! The only band that has that ability to be for all ages
This utterly bizarre relationship John had with his master, Yoko, must have blown away everyone in the band and everyone tied to their recording sessions. WTF.
Great video. Really tells the story well. Perhaps the most perfect album in the history of rock and pop. It encapsulates everything about The Beatles in a single vinyl platter. Sometimes the sprawling brilliant mess of the white album is my favorite. Sometimes the great songwriting and expanding vision of Revolver is my favorite. Today Abbey Road is my favorite. Thank you.
The Beatles weren't introduced to America until 1964 and by 1970 it was over. Six years goes by in a flash, its incredible what they accomplished
How a band so fraught with tension and chaos was able to create the greatest album of all time. It's poetic...
There's some special quality about Beatles music, it's almost spiritual. It gets me emotional. Particularly on the three standout tracks on "Abbey Road" - i.e. "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Because" and "Golden Slumbers".
"you never give me your money" was my favourite as a kid and I don't understand why it doesn't get more attention?
As a Christian I should not say it but Abbey Road has some sort of spiritual aspect to it. It’s sad at times and exhilarating. When George sings “something in the way she moves..” makes me tear up.
Abbey Road and Rubber Soul are my two favorite Beatles albums. Abbey Road is just a masterpiece.
If you're a Beatles fan, it's hard to keep a dry eye when you're listening to "You never give me your money".
I get all weepy listening to the immortal medley.
Or "once there was a way" at the beginning of Golden Slumbers.
@@georgestrachan647Agreed
It amazes me , my teen years were chasing the Beatles music by trying to learn it , play it, and wondering why they quit. Today it’s understandable, but in 69, unthinkable
Sgt. Pepper is their greatest, the White Album is my favorite, but Abbey Road is their magnum opus. A true 10 out of 10
Well said
Sgt. Pepper is their worst album, followed by Abbey Road
@@jhfit I'm aware that everyone is entitled to have opinions, but you're just wrong :D
Their greatest album and probably the greatest ever. The flow from beginning to end is incredible especially for the 1960s. This and Sgt Peppers are their most complete and consistent albums.
Their music is still current today and better than the shit we have to listen to now. God I wish they could have made more albums. The best band ever. I don't think something like the Beatles will ever happen again simply the best!!!
Ironically, in the iconic shot of them crossing Abbey Road, there's a Volkswagen Beetle parked on the side where George Harrison is crossing, perhaps a subliminal reminder of all the time they spent in Germany perfecting their act, or maybe just a subtle way to remind everyone there is always a 5th Beatle.....
After ABBEY ROAD why would THE BEATLES get back together ? Glad they didn't. If there is a way to go out.
ABBEY ROAD brought out the best of each . It's debatable up against REVOLVER or PEPPER ? Not many Bands go out with a Masterpiece . The Beatles were and still are The Best.
the greatest there is, the greatest there was, the greatest there ever will be
Absolutely .. end of subject
After all these decades, I still have to laugh at Lennon's petty fault-finding of McCartney's work, when Lennon was on the cusp of jamming Yoko OhNOOOO's musical "talents" into everything he would do.
" I Want You " ranks right up there with " Helter Skelter " as one of The Beatles heaveist track !!!
I want you is heavier than “Helter Skelter”, specially the ending. Helter Skelter is louder. i want you is heavier
The energy of the rooms that exist in the rock and roll hall of Fame where they play live scenes and songs of the Beatles was a magical place to be. I wanted to sing along, laugh and cry at once. So very moving. It's wild that a band and their songs makes me feel like I'm home. Such power and magic in their sound. They are and will always be the best band ever!
I AM FINDING MOST OF THESE COMMENTS SO EMOTIONALLY MOVING. I CHOKE UP.
I always said Abbey Road could be renamed “The Greatest Mic Drop Ever!”
Sometimes i wish Lennon never met Yoko Ono!! Because that way he would still be ALIVE!!
What do I know? Silver Hammer was my faborite AR song.
It’s a great song. The haters are weird!
I am so thankful that Paul stood his ground on Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. The other Beatles hated it, many fans don’t like it. But I unironically love it. I enjoy it so much and it puts me in a great mood every time.
Unironically ? What does that even mean?
@@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 exactly what it sounds like
@@king_supreme1102 it's not even a word.
@@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 you can still infer what it means
@@king_supreme1102 no I can't. What would it mean to like something ironically?
Stupendous album!
A classic album.
My favorite Beatles album,hands down 🙌🎵 Btw,I had to enter in 4th decade of my life to not take George's masterpieces for granted! Better late then never,I guess!
I Want You "trashed for it's simple lyrics"...no one knew that at the time, thanks for enlightening us.
The Beatles knew this was their grand finale. George Martin said everyone got along and it was a very happy album, and you can hear it in the songs.
People can't think for themselves and follow false consensus, such is the problem with the reception of Maxwell's. It is a more than fine song--probably even better than Oh Darling!
A miracle they could come up with this when no one expected it, or could have blamed them if they had went their separate ways after the Get Back sessions. But then, they were the Beatles.
Weird to think that Lennon only had 11 more years of life to live after this.
Well told detailed story of a great album of the greatest band ever, Thanks!
When people ask me which Beatles album is my favorite, I say Abbey Road but second place is their first album Please Please Me, which is definitely up there too. You get both bookends of their transformation and brilliance as a group.
what's more interesting about these landmark albums being their first and last studio productions, nothing else sounded like please please me when released in '63. however by '69 though they were on another trajectory, there were many who sounded like them because many looked to them as a signpost of where music was and where it was headed.
@@ustheserfs I'll go one further and note that there were many artists by this point making music which sounded nothing like the Beatles, nor indeed like anything yet in existence, because the Beatles had made experimentation de rigueur.
@@ontheruntonowhere perhaps but those who didn't sound like them were most likely motivated by the innovation and ingenuity they forged in the studio.
@@ustheserfs Yep, the point I was trying to make.
She's So Heavy was the last time all four of them were in the studio together.
August 20th, 1969 they were all together at Abbey Road to listen to a rough edit of the medley. _I Want You_ was finished on this day, but it was mixing/editing only - no recording.
It was recorded on my 3rd Birthday
The claim that Clapton Harrison both co wrote here comes the Sun is pretty far fetched
they did Badge though
Who is Clapton Harrison? A son or brother of George?
@@alkatrask2704 you know? Eric Clapton , Harrisons friend
@@theyrekrnations8990 Elric Clapton Harrison a friend? That sounds like a family member, shared last name
@@alkatrask2704 oh ok ha ha
This band haunted my whole childhood. So it's ending with Let it be and Abby Road was a kind of ending for me as well.
Playing or singing in a band is simultaneously the best thing in the world, yet sad at the same time, because you can't go back & live it again, it is a unique experience. I suppose that is how it must have felt for them as well.
I wonder sometimes what it would of been like if The Beatles never broke up and all their solo hits over the years were actually under the banner of The Beatles....
If the Beatles have never broken up I think all of the songs that the Beatles couldn’t record it would’ve been big hits I’m glad George Harrison released all things must Pass I think that’s one of his best albums ever and everything that the Beatles dead is great not just together but solo work as well.
Some people have tried for fun putting together their solo work as beatles albums,like my try first side
Jet
Mind Games
Band on the Run
My Sweet Lord
Photograph
Second side
Imagine
What is Life
It don't come Easy
Live and let die
All things must pass
,would have made a good album:)
I did a playlist for my sister and called it After The Split.
@@davesteffin9012 Too many people
I was born in 1959. I know that the Beatles truly are the greatest band ever. By the time I was 15, I owned every Beatles album made. My favorite is, and will always be "Magical Mystery Tour ", or "Abby Road". Then "Beatles for Sale! Or "Revolver". Rubber Soal is great, and I like Sargeant Pepper, but I love it, just not as much as "Introducing the Beatles" by Vee Jay records. My father, who was a prisoner in Flossenburg concentration camp 1941 to 1945, was a great fan of the Beatles though he alway said he hated them. My Dad bought the album when it came out. I love "Please, Please Me", but "Introducing The Beatles is more liked by me personally. My mother gave "Introducing the Beatles to my Uncle (who hated the Beatles) and i have never been able to find it..."I wanna hold your hand" must be listened to on "Introducing the Beatles !" I alway believe that you can't listen to the Beatles without listening to Badfinger! Badfinger's albums are integral to the Beatles. You all may not agree, but I don't care.😮
Hey fellow ‘59er. Abbey Road was my first ever album purchase.
It’s strange that the Beatles story is actually a sad one.
The single most beautiful album ever recorded.
Their music is so varied & consistently brilliant that it's impossible to pick a best album. Had some of the early albums been recorded with the technology utilized later on, one of those might've been the best. It's a shame that they were forced into breaking up by contractual needs; it would've been better to go on hiatus for a couple of years then tour again and record some of the songs written for the various solo albums.
Yes but magical mystery tour
@@noahpearson2190 what about it? strictly speaking, it isn't canonical.
@@sentimentalbloke185 Correct, not a true "Beatles album" per se.
@@sentimentalbloke185What do you mean "not canonical?" That doesn't make any sense.
@@mattsmoo58 then look it up
I was still in the single digits when ABBEY ROAD came out and really, this was the first Beatles album I cared much about. My brother, nearly six years older than me, was big on the Beatles early on but I don't remember him having any of their albums past the "moptop" era. AR's significance to my own musical development was that it was this album more than any other that taught me how music worked, much less rock music. I remember sitting on the floor of my bedroom with a portable cassette player and a book of Beatles sheet music (transcribed for piano) and I would follow along between the tape and the book. My modern perspective is that it was AR where the Beatles tried, knowingly or not, to align themselves with the rock music of the day...and they mostly succeeded. When I say that, I don't mean necessarily that they came up short; in some ways, I think, they *led* and in other ways they *lagged*. That being said, if they weren't all sick of each other and sick of being "The Beatles" and all the baggage associated with that, it seems like AR could have been looked at in retrospect as a new kicking-off point. I'm reminded of the three albums the original members of Asia reunited for and how they got dramatically better as they went; "AR II" and "AR III" could have been like that. It would have also been a good time for the four of them to have really woodshedded and expanded what they could do as instrumentalists; when it comes to that, they were getting steamrollered by the Jeff Becks, Jack Bruces, Tony Bankses, Jimmy Pages, and Keith Moons of the world who were rushing up behind them. Alas, we go to war with the Beatles we have, not the Beatles we want. :)
John Lemon and Paul McCartney was one person. Paul John(athon) Pope. Hence Pope John Paul & John, Paul, George & Ringo. This is documented in radio and televisuals. If you take the time to call P.J. Pope and talk to him he will admit it. His number is ex-directory. So goggle him. Jah bless and much love, rock and roll might never die. Grand Ol Opry.
Great 👍 show thanks 😅😊
Thanks! I hadn't seen this one. I'm seventy-four. The Beatles had so much to do with how I look at life and the world, even today. My opening to life, at four-teen years old, was nothing short of magical.
I was 10 when
The FAB 4
worked on and
created ABBEY ROAD.
I was a fan as a little child
and I'm still a fan of
The BEATLES today.
As Pete Townshend
has said,
"Long live Rock
be dead or alive!"
I will be a Beatles fan
until the day I die
(and then some).
+ Durasaxon +✝️
Best album by anyone ever
This is very well-researched and told. The Abbey Road album is amazing. One could write and write about the quality of her songs and their flow from one to the next. “I Want You” is probably the heaviest Beatles song ever. It’s sudden stop, only to move to the panacea of Here Comes the Sun is an obvious example of the intelligence that Martin and the band brought to the project. But the most important thing of course is just the craftsmanship of the music itself. The beautiful balance of mood; never lingering too long on one idea: an album that deserves to be listened to from beginning to end (remember when we had the patience to do that?)