All of Side 2 is phenomenal, and the sequencing is part of that. By the time you reach the solos, they come as a climax, a peak and then a cathartic release of the musical and emotional tension that has been building under the surface. Then the final declaration, the summing-up, the statement of principle, all you need to know, and that towards which the Beatles' whole career(s) have been leading, their final act and the very last thing they, as a group, will ever say to us, 16 syllables delivered as 4 lines of 4 each: And in the end The love you take Is e-qual to The love... you make. ... Like for just one example, the love that was made in the act of creation of that roughly 20 minutes of music, and that is then re-made every time you listen to that album side. But wait! ... There's a little treat still to come. That last act of creation and love DID end with "The End", and this is made clear by some 14 seconds (? I think) of silence that serves as a boundary between The End and whatever might come next. Your brain is clearing its cache, building a buffer zone that gently eases the door closed on The End. Some time and space is given over to afterglow, just sitting in the quiet, and then, as if to sit up and light a cigarette and begin to resume a more normal frame of mind, we get a wonderful little 23 seconds of a wonderful little song: An acoustic guitar playing a classic sounding set of chords walking up and down to each other and little fills and such, accompanied by a vocal that is short and sweet and classic in its own right as a very dry and British sense of humor in an ode to Her Majesty. One of the most classic and brilliant album sides ever created. There's a reason why, more than 50 years after their breakup, a wealth of Beatles material of all sorts continues to not only live on but be created anew on the internet, and UA-cam in particular. They were and still are a singular phenomenon. And it all comes back to music, the music, which still sounds fresh and inventive and rewarding to listen to to this day.
@@PaulFormentos i would you know it, as he in his final years talked about the beatles with a lot of passion and almost blaming himself and drug habbits having driven Beatles career to a final not that friendly , you can see this interview on US TV , while recording his last album which is great , here on youtube search for john lennon´s last interview on tv
@@PaulFormentos - John would have disagreed in 1970 and probably still in 1980... but I have to wonder how he would feel about it now. I think he just might have come around to see all the wonderful beauty and magic of the medley - and how it has affected the world for so many decades.
The medley that ends "Abbey Road" is the pinnacle of what The Beatles accomplished as a group. It will remain one of the greatest musical treats of all time for generations to come...
@@We_All_Seek_Truth it´s true you can see the evolution of early days to the end that none of them knew it would be their last album but as some of the best songs made by the famous four and George Harrison contributed with the best songs they made after 1966
@@We_All_Seek_Truth - I didn't called it a "fact". It's a personal opinion. Do YOU not see it as "one of the greatest musical treats"..? Do YOU not see it as the "pinnacle of what The Beatles accomplished as a group"..? If not - what do YOU see as the pinnacle..?
In my opinion. the medley--actually the entire second side--is the greatest piece of music ever created and performed. It include an almost infinite amount of the "unexplained magic" mentioned by the narrator. And that IS a fact.
George new times were changing and the music too. I was lucky enough to meet and watch George play. He was so humble and talented. RIP George and John 🙏✌️🤘🎸🥁🇦🇺
I always thought highly of George as well, but when they (the narrator) said that about him when Geoff Emerick told (or asked?) George to turn down his amp because it was producing a hum and George said "You do not tell 'a Beatle' to turn down his amp." it sounds so out of character for what I understood about his gentle, humble character! Maybe George's personality WAS adversely affected by being so rich, and famous, and highly respected, and let's not forget Pattie Boyd being his wife! That little tidbit of what he (supposedly) said to the (lowly) engineer kinda jarred my mind a bit.
@@We_All_Seek_Truth- No, I think George was tired of being left out and afraid to come to Paul and John with a song he was writing for they basically told him to piss off because he was not producing anything worth their time. That along with disgusting Yoko stealing one of his biscuit cookie.
@@We_All_Seek_Truth idk if it’s possible to be THAT huge, that famous & prolific, that loved, without getting at least a bit of the “do you know who I am?!?!” ego
@@We_All_Seek_Truth seriously. people act like george was a saint. they were all genius drama queens to varying degrees, although George wrote at a glacial pace
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Abbey Road is my favorite from the The Beatles. Even though they weren’t getting along as a band any longer, they managed to create one of the greatest albums of all time.
You think the songs are good besides come together and George’s songs? It’s a weak album IMO. Not their best songs. No day in the life or got to get you in my life
@@jamiehovis7722 it depends of one´s taste , i like it as it shows their own taste in music or how the Beatles should sound at the time the beatband was already gone, also as i said before some of their best songs are in it most of them by George Harrison , like here comes the sun, something and come together by john and paul. Some say they were enemy´s towards the end but even Imagine is co-written by John and Paul, in John Lennon´s album, at least is what it says in the record cover, they were not getting along for some month or even a year but they become friends as always, like in the song "...the last song you wrotte was yesterday.."not yesterday but in 1965, that was also related with heavy drugs comsuption at the time, i guess what comes written in a magazine or newspapper becomes more true than reality, i can give other example like in the 90´s Oasis versus Blur but in reality if it wasn´t for Damon Albarn (or something like that)oASIS WOULD HAD NEVER RECORDed A lp, BUT MAGAZINES AND MTV ,matter more than reality , sorry for the caps lock it got a will of it´s own, to be more acurate also Justine from Elastica the girlfriend of mr.Damon at the time, as the Blur album parklife and the great escape sounded not like Blur anymore but live played was perfect all playing perfect but the guitar full of distortion and loud , this in indoors concerts, that made me like them again, even after i bought THE two AlbumS, THAT I DIDN´T LIKE THEM AS WHEN THEY werE RELEASED, sorry for the caps lock it´s activating on it´s own. the Beatles had the same treatment it sold more magazines at the time as "the best band in the world" ended but not because of that ,other issues happened with other the beatles menbers, all together made them split, by the time they released the Abbey road album they didn´t knew it was going to be their last, this said by them in anthology DVD´s released in the 90´s in VHS also as at the time not all had DVD players the video was a important gadjet at everybody´s home, dvd didn´t end it as people were used to do more in all VHS VCR functions,, i have a Philips video also released as Pioneer that as great image and sound ,never saw other VHS video with such quality, that i was using still in 2010, with my old CRT tv, that was also where one could use the full quality of the playstation two from my kids, only stoped using it when in 2017 it failed for the first time, it was a Sony that cost a lot of money, i drift from the main topic
Sorry for the double dip. They were going to call the album Everest and fly to Nepal to take photos of the Beatles with the mountain behind them...Pauls idea. As everyone was grumbling about having to fly to Nepal, Ringo spoke and said why don't we just call it Abby Road and take pictures of us in front of the studio.
@@benpoverelli5450 the picture when you open the red and blue compilations all stereo for the first time, four-track recording ,but i really don´t know if the mono versions were more better sounding as the stereo was still in it´s first years only at Abbey Road the album was all recorded in stereo, their choice as it was available for years before they did the first recording in stereo,"...in the documentary ,extended version of let it be recording sessions", by dull mr. Peter jackson is refered that in the recording only ringo´s drums were originally recorded in stereo in one of trhe songs, has we can see Alan parson´s working as a recording especialist in his youth,well before he had his Project
You swung that bad and hit that ball way past the bleachers man! You do exceptional documentary examinations of all artists that you make videos for. Always grateful for you.
Yea, who does that? What kind of a person would you have to be to feel comfortable doing that? It's borderline insane. It's completely self indulgent and dismissive of everyone else involved. I heard the story before of Yoko stealing one of George's biscuits, but the way I'd heard it he wasn't mad and he didn't say "bitch", he was more amused and amazed that she had snuck over thinking no one was watching. And he pointed it out to someone else, "look, she's just stolen one of my biscuits" in an amused almost laughing but incredulous voice. What a strange lady Yoko is...
Thank you for providing this insight into the creation of Abbey Road. After watching, I listened to side 2, and my god, it brought me to tears. When it was released 55 years ago, I bought a guitar (for $12), and the Abbey Road song book, and I've been playing music ever since.
So glad they all came together to make this last incredible album. Even in arguing they still are and will be the greatest band in the world. I so wish we still had John and George in this world. Thanks for your video. It was great to watch. 😊
Where to begin… so many song “children” were birthed in those sessions. Imagine never hearing Something, Come Together, Here Comes the Sun, Oh Darling etc… our lives were affected for decades from the hours they spent in Abbey Road.
Thank you again for your amazing informational documentary. So much... 1st - The Beatles finally realize it's really hard to record off a mixing board made out of "Bits of wood, and an Oscilloscope." Bye, Bye to Magic Alex? 😃Abby Road was I think the greatest of the Beatles' albums and it does give one the feeling when you listen to the end of it that sadly, we're saying goodbye to the Beatles as a group together. With all that went on recording it, it's amazing it was finished. Yoko wasn't stingy on just wanting her bed to herself. I see Linda McCartney and others sitting with her at 19:19. I had a band in high school in 1971 and our Drummer's solo was done off of Ringo's from Abby Road, I think a lot of drummers used his opening "beats" for solos in the 70's. That whole final closing of "The End" is something that you'll always remember once you hear it.
What we love The Beatles for? Brilliant melodies, harmonies, riffs, vibe. There was so much music in their music. Carefully crafted magic vocal harmonies, chords, nice song structures. 90% of it would never happen if it were not Paul and George Martin. They were always pursuing perfection. They were chasing that magic feeling in music when it sounds just excellent. They were literally fullfilling their musical dreams. Beatles would never sound so musically interesting and pleasant if it were not Paul and George Martin. . Somebody had to put pieces of the puzzle together in a genious way.
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Completely agree! I always considered George Martin the fifth Beatle.
George Martin had little to nothing to do with the songwriting. What are you talking about? And what part of strawberry fields forever did Paul write again? Or dear prudence?
Thanks for another great doc.! As conflicted as the group was, they were very fortunate to have some good Adult Supervision - Sir George Martin. Without him, I don't think the group would have lasted nearly as long, or had the same musical & cultural impact. From my reading of the bio about The Buffalo Springfield, that group had very similar personality issues as The Beatles and lasted barely two and a half years basically because they didn't have a real producer. Too bad there wasn't someone like George Marin in L.A. during their time together, or at the very least, an experienced manager .
From the very beginning of their recordings they were brilliant at three part harmonies live, & no band since have matched the classics they recorded from the minute they began Love Me Do to The End❤️
such great video. a real testament of how hard it is to make magic. i enjoy watching the get back sessions as they evolve in the process from a little idea into a memorable song. thanks for making these.
John made being in the studio a nightmare. He could be a tyrant plus his screecher groupie wife. The Beatles would have been much better off without her distractions in the studio.
No. They had several problems that weren't going to be resolved. They had completely different visions of what the band should be doing. They wanted to prove they could do it without each other.
I played guitar in a band in the early eighties, as part of one of our sets, we played the medley from "Abbey Road" side 2 at a bar gig, it didn't go over well as one patron in the back of the room kept screaming "Fog Hat!", we scrapped it from the set list after that night. P.S., we never added a "Fog Hat" song to our repertoire.
My favorite album of theirs. When I got the 2009 cd remasters in mono and stereo, I has to decide which to listen to first. Easy, Abbey Road. The Beatles went out on top. What an incredible legacy they leave behind.
You capture the sessions and what really happened better than anyone can without live footage. The way you edit makes me feel like I’m watching a documentary which moves along well. I always wished they had filmed the White Album and Pepper sessions. Not Get Back as it was at the end. Thanks so much for what you do! Excellent job! 😮😊
To me, after the huge debacle that were the Get Back sessions, it's amazing they could even come together to do Abbey Road. Most people realize that although Let It Be was the last RELEASED album, Abbey Road was the last recorded. Paul knew that Allen Klein managing their business affairs would end in disaster, so given their behavior during these sessions, left the band for good. The other three had left before this, but never officially & legally. I find it both a marvel and a huge gift that this album was completed and released at all. What would the world be like without Here Comes the Sun and Something!? Two of the best songs The Beatles ever recorded.
John did leave the band, but not financially. 8 months later Paul had to admit it was over and took the blame. For which ironically John blamed him because he wanted to be the one to break up the Beatles.
Yeah. Pretty bold and stupid. I didn't pay to hear her artless caterwauling, live, in front of her poseur-level installations at the Tate Modern. No, i did not.
@@martinthomas5155 Yoko was some piece of work. She actually had called to McCartney's house in St John's Wood in London before she ever met Lennon. She wanted some of his lyrics to give as a gift and McCartney said no he didn't do that. Later she met Lennon in an art gallery and pretended not to know who he was. She played Lennon and knew what strings to pull. "You and me are artists John the rest don't understand" "Everything is okay John mother is looking after you" He couldn't see or didn't want to see he was being played.
John left the Beatles during the recording of Abbey Road. He recorded I want You( She's so Heavy), had the tape stopped abruptly by the engineer Geoff Emmerick , walked out of Abbey Road Studio and across Abbey Road. The album was finished without him and Paul a few months later announced the end of the Beatles. But truth be told John was not coming back and there really could not be any band without him and the others in it.
This is a factual scenario different from what I've read. Recording of "Abbey Road" finished with "The End" in mid August 1969. John's announcement of "I want a divorce" was mid September 1969.
@@iriemon1796 Ryan Reed Rolling Stone magazine 9/11/19: "IN A NEWLY unearthed recording from 1969, the Beatles‘ principal songwriters discuss tentative plans for a follow-up to their final LP Abbey Road, a revelation that shifts the canonical narrative of that album’s recording sessions and the band’s eventual break-up. The tape - which dates back to September 8th, 1969, two weeks before Abbey Road‘s release - features a contentious conversation between John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison at Apple headquarters in London’s Savile Row. With Ringo Starr hospitalized and undergoing tests for intestinal issues, his bandmates talk about recording another album and a potential single for the Christmas market."
I think it may just be the way it is presented in this video but makes me think that 90% of the all the problems they had was because of John acting like a spoiled child (thanks to all those who gave constructive criticism for me)
Not 90% but certainly 50. You have to remember, as well meaning as Paul was the others resented him for being a workaholic. They were lazy and ofc were thankful for it later but at the time they weren’t as keen. George had his issues with Paul dating back to when they were kids, which set in place a baby brother complex
I couldn't disagree more. The Beatles were growing up. Don't forget how young they were when they began their careers. They were tired of being "the four headed monster" and wanted to get on with their lives.
I think George was the one pouring cold water on every suggestion anyone came up with. He was so negative throughout Get Back it just got irritating. Such a primadonna. John was just goofing off but the work got done. At least he wasn't adamant he didn't want to do anything at all like George was.
Iove the white album and abbey road. 2 of the greatest albulms of all time. Full of brilliant songs. I love Maxwells silver hammer, i have no idea why some people dislike it so much. Maybe because im from that time, i grew up with the Beatles and the evolution.
This is the real deal, passionate and informative from beginning to end. Usually, when people do videos about how the Beatles made their music, it's half hype/spin/convenient generalizations.
Her Majesty was not deliberately put at the end. It was part of the medley but cut out., with the trim being added at final assembly, not wanting to waste a recording.
It's the most Beatles thing ever to have this masterpiece end on the most epic lines imaginable ("And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...").... and then throw a whimsical little ditty like "Her Majesty" on as the true closer. I love it because it confounds the legend, thus making the legend grow. Brilliant.
@@madlift I see your point and it's a good point but I can't bear 'Her Majesty' following the beyond awesome 'The End'. I put 'Her Majesty' with the Past Masters 2 tracks.
Despite the fact that the sessions were plagued with acrimony and arguments, the final album is a testament to the individual talents of the four young men. As Martin observed, when the four were together in the studio, something magical happened. With the exception of Maxwell, I think the album is the crowning glory of the group that changed the world.
13:25 "Thomas went away believing Paul just simply couldn't be bothered anymore." Again with this negative commentary. McCartney came in early before the others for numerous days - recording a vocal early in the day to try and get the best sound he could for "Oh Darling" until he got the one he liked best. Paul worked his ass off all the time... for both his songs - and the songs of his bandmates. And yet here you are - giving us some nonsense about how "Paul couldn't be bothered anymore". What a load of BS.
@@toxicsausage302 off course they had to find a new bass player, i think in a moment all turned to him and said in unissunus ,shave or leave ,beirds are taken
The narrator is reporting what *Thomas* thought at the time. Thomas was later proved wrong. It is absolutely appropriate to report Thomas's disappointment that the session didn't go well, and also to report that Paul nailed the vocal in a later session. Note that the narrator neither agrees nor disagrees with Thomas. The narrator simply reports what happened at the time.
Another McCartney apologist that can't stand the thought of anyone giving an honest opinion of Paul, if that opinion doesn't hold him in the highest light. You McCartney fans need to just get a bronze statue of Paul, and pray to it. If you only knew how crazy you come off with this devout praise to Paul.
10 years later Paul and John were friends again and were talking about getting back together. They talked to George and he was not against the idea and so was Ringo. What could have been!!!!!!!
Because George couldn't stand Paul. I heard a comment that working with him on Free as a Bird and Real Love gave him a headache. Paul and John would always make up, but George and Paul would never have worked. It's a miracle we got the Anthology reunion. That was our Beatles reunion and no bugger cared.
The old shit would have come up. Look at any other reunions. Look at Simon and Garfunkel. They make up and then break up on the exact same thing. They can see it from miles away and can't stop it.
Agree; pepper came out at their popularity peak me thinks and paired with its mythos it’s their most important album paired with abbey road of course, because as you said it’s their opus
It was during the Abbey Road sessions that all four of the Beatles, and George Martin all took turns sleeping with Yoko in the studio while recording was happening.
@@mikejones7593 That would be a tough argument. REM is good, but too many competitors on their level or higher. The Beatles were untouchable, from ANY generation. REM is not in that league, even in their own generation. So, that's a bit of a stretch.
@@mikejones7593 You won't find REM listed in ANYONE's top 100 bands of all time. Lol. It's ok that you like them. But REM is not important. They certainly are not, and never will be 'historic' on the level of the Beatles, and never had the musicianship of the guys in Yes.
Incredible and quite *shocking* all this apparent drama was taking place during those last recording sessions. Those songs played, as they were released to the public, all seemed brilliant, well-rehearsed and flawlessly performed as with a group project and spirit. What we all 'heard' at the time of its commercial release, was once again... Sonic-Beatles Magic. And despite these details... that magic, I believe... will continue to be how the songs were created as a whole... to be played and remembered throughout time.
There are lots of them around today, especially in the computer world. People who know all the lingo but if you could pin them down could actually do nothing.
It’s true about stripping the finish on some guitars. Doesn’t work on all, but for some, it really opens up the sound. It seems to resonate more. It has a slight acoustic quality about it. It seems to work on Fender Telecasters really well. Some basses respond to it too, but mainly guitars.
My sweet lord! Can anyone compare to George Harrison? If the Beatles went on another 5 years…George would’ve been the leader. No album, post Beatles, compares to All Things Must Pass.
Yes, and to my mind, the only mistake the group made. Finishing on "...and in the end..." would've been a perfect full stop to the album, and to The Beatles.
@@davidhutchison8349 Sometimes I feel the same about it but eventually realize it was for good that it ended up like that. True surprise effect indeed. That's very The Beatles.
It's the most Beatles thing ever to have this masterpiece end on the most epic lines imaginable ("And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...").... and then throw a whimsical little ditty like "Her Majesty" on as the true closer. I love it because it confounds the legend, thus making the legend grow. Brilliant.
I’m afraid I must take umbrage with George Martin’s statement about George Harrison finally delivering the goods with Here comes the sun, Taxman and While my guitar gently weeps are equal to anything by Lennon and McCartney!😢
I disagree. While they are excellent songs by any standard, they don't have the quality of McCartney and Lennon tunes. While my guitar gently weeps is over rated in my book. Too boring of a song, I ussualy skip it
When they were recording on February 22nd of 1969... they were not "beginning the sessions for "Abbey Road". At that point - it was basically a continuation of what they had been doing in January. They didn't start sessions for what was to become a new album until the summer of 1969 - when they had all agreed to have George Martin produce again in the way he had done for their previous albums. One could say that a lot of the material that ended up on the "Abbey Road" album had begun being worked on from the beginning of 1969 - including January. But the group didn't get back together and start new recording sessions for a new LP until July.
Watched most of your video's, you've done a good job, thanks. I think they grew apart, not helped by Brian no longer being there & the disastrous business decisions they made. John sounds like he's on the heaviest trip of all - Heroin. Considering the music industry of that time, the rip off managers, the record labels punishing schedule, growing up in the public eye, it's a wonder they lasted that long. They left some great music though.
George Harrison told a funny story about the song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" he was on holiday and the new Beatles record came on the radio. George listened and said laughing "I really can't remember playing on that"😂😂😂
it only came out as a extra song in a single ,one of get back many versions, today cds alignment isn´t like it was then ,i had to buy the single or don´t let me down and the ballad of john and yoko were never in any lp the red and blue doble lp´s didn´t had them only added on the cds
ABSOLUTELY TRUE BUT I ALWAYS FELT JOHN WASN'T GIVEN ENOUGH CREDIT FOR BRINGING HER INTO THE FOLD. IT CERTAINLY WASN'T PAUL OR GEORGE OR RINGOS DOING AND SHE DIDN'T BRING HERSELF.
6:29 You mention that "I Want You" was the last song to be mixed... but you fail to state when that was (in August) so it comes across without any context. You are talking about February 22nd directly before it - and then February 25th directly after it... so it unintentionally seems like you were saying that the group "would never set foot in the studio again" while talking about February of 1969. It's just very poorly presented.
The Beatles clearly had at least one more album left in them. From the tapes of their last band meeting, John suggested that the next album be divided up equally with 4 songs each for John, Paul and George, and Ringo getting one or two songs. That would have made for an interesting album. Then again, Abbey Road is the perfect swan song, so history for the win.
Oh Darling is one of my least favorite songs on the album. Still great, but nowhere near as great as Something, Here Comes the Sun, Come Together, You never give me your money, Golden Slumbers, She Came in through the bathroom window, Because, or even Octopuses Garden.
I recall being transfixed the first time I heard Abbey Road through the first time. I got high and listened again. Yep, it was as amazing as I first thought.
As individual musicians, as well as men, the four Beatles had grown so much in a relatively brief period of time. From 1962 to 1969 they had grown and evolved to the point that they all needed to go their own ways. From the days of playing on stage in Hamburg, to recording Abbey Road, they had been through things that no other human being on earth had experienced. I once met an engineer who had worked with George Harrison during his solo career, working both on some of his solo albums. I asked him what George was like... was he a 'normal guy'? His reply was incredibly telling. "NORMAL??? For GOD'S SAKE he was a Beatle... one of only four people to experience what he had. Normal, no... but a really great man for sure!" At least the Beatles finished off their recording career with the gem that is Abbey Road.
I agree about the incredible rapid trajectory of their growth and development personally and professionally. They left at exactly the right time. Everything about them showed their excellent judgement and instincts. Pure class, always.
A lot of people experienced what they experienced. Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, nirvana. Maybe not in the same numbers or impact on culture. But they all grinded in the clubs, recorded, and toured.
I love "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I never understood the hate for it. The way the dark lyrics contrast with the bouncy music is brilliant. The problem with Paul's "granny songs" happens when all the elements are too sweet. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" has a playful irony that saves it from that.
Seems like by 1969, the Beatles all got really big-headed, acting like the assholes they used to mock so easily in the Hard Days Night days. They forgot how to not take themselves so seriously.
24:20 I always heard that 'Her Majesty' coming in as a hidden track was an accident? It was cut from being between 'Mean Mr. Mustard' and 'Polythene Pam', and because no Beatles music was to be discarded it was taped to the end of the master tape spool. A note was left for the vinyl cutting engineers to stop the tape after 'The End', but they didn't realize they meant the song 'the End'. That's why 'Her Majesty' came crashing in 20 seconds after the album was supposed to have finished. The Beatles didn’t hear this until they were listening to the finished product before giving it the go ahead to press the albums. The Beatles liked the mistake and left it that way. It wasn't decided by them to do it to begin with.
It has always seemed obvious to me that "Get Back Jo-Jo" was Paul saying "Get Back Yoko". Am I wrong? I doubt she "broke up the Beatles", but I also doubt the other 3 Beatles appreciated her being in the studio at all times.
the best came from george, not george best i´m refering to the last songs recorded by george harrison like here comes the sun and here comes the weed or here comes the heroin, not refering to Yoko Ono
Yet the most acclamed songs from the album (besides Harrison's) are Lennon's - Come Together and I Want You. Also, if you compare the average ratings of Lennon's and McCartney's songs on the album, the difference isn't too big - 4.17 out of 5 for Lennon and 4.2 for McCartney. Also, in most of the song "duels" throughout the history of the Beatles Lennon's song was more acclaimed: Strawberry Fields Forever vs Penny Lane, Lady Madonna vs Hey Bulldog, Rain vs Paperback Writer, I Feel Fine vs She's a Woman, I Am the Walrus vs Hello Goodbye. Also, out of 20 best rated Beatles songs 9 are Lennon's: Strawberry Fields Forever, In My Life (although the authorship is disputed), Tomorrow Never Knows, I Want You, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Come Together, I'm Only Sleeping, Norwegian Wood, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. And only 7 are McCartneys: Eleanor Rigby (although the authorship is disputed), Yesterday, Helter Skelter, Penny Lane, Blackbird, Carry That Weight, Let It Be. The top song is a collaborative one - A Day in the Life. The second one is Lennon's - Strawberry Fields Forever. * Ratings taken from RateYourMusic
@@stravvman i do not give value to those ratings some never heard all beatles LP´s only top hits as in compilations they have a lot of good songs and some better than the ones listed , not saying that some do are some of the best but what about several others lefted out, , and normally songs were starting as a lennon´s idea but mcartney gave the final touch to make them whole, that´s why it says lennon/mcartney ,this said by them in interviews done at the time ,it were a pair of excelent writters/composers, has i also give value to Harrison who wrotte by the last albums some of their best songs
@@RUfromthe40s Of course, it is impossible to compare the contributions of Lennon and McCartney based only on the ratings on one (althoght quite popular, expecially among "artistic" crowd) site. I have cited them simply as "objective" indicators in contrast to the opinion of OP, to show not that Lennon is better than McCartney, but at least that answering the question to which he answers so categorically is not as easy as it seems.
One thing the video doesn’t address is the running order of the medley. It was completely different originally until it was decided to completely rework it. Her Majesty was cut out and the tape operator simply stuck it on the end of the tape. Once they heard it that way they loved it and decided to keep it. It was never intended to be the tag on the end of the album. In fact the original pressings didn’t even list Her Majesty.
John Lennon was a fool when it came to people. He told them to hire Magic Alex as an electric genius. He was a con man who robbed them. He encouraged the Beatles to hire Alien Klein who also robbed them. He recorded "Revolution 9" which was total rubbish. Ringo was the only one without a huge ego. Lennon was under the thumb of Yoko Ono, Paul wanted to run the Beatles, George was sick of Paul and John. Paul wanted to go back on the road the John and George had no intention of doing that. John had found Yoko a good substitute for the Beatles as she massaged his ego and mothered him. George had so many songs that he couldn't get on a Beatles album. In the end he made All Things Must Pass. Which outsold John and Paul. George said years later that he thought 80% of the Beatles music was overrated but the remaining 20% was exceptional. I think he was right. It is always strange to hear them speak of the band. They say "Well the thing about The Beatles was..." or " The Beatles thing was huge" it's as if they see it as something that they are looking at from a distance. None of them envisaged what would happen ( nobody did) four guys in a band and for the rest of your life nobody will let you forget the band. Even when you die you'll be referred to as ex Beatle......that must be so strange. It is almost impossible for anyone to surpass what they did in such a short time. Harrison was only 26 when they finished!!!He was 24 when he wrote "While my guitar gently weeps" What a band.
I don't know why you choose to call them "the shoddy Get Back tapes". An excellent album (that would be another #1 LP) came out of the tapes that were recorded in January of 1969... as well as THREE #1 singles. When I listen to the music from that period... it doesn't seem "shoddy" to me - at all. And when I watch the film of the group from that period... it just doesn't come across as "shoddy".
@@jamiehovis7722 - I've seen hundreds of musicians say exactly the opposite. You get to have your own opinion... but you are deep down in the minority.
@@aBeatleFan4ever you mean hobbiests? Accountants nurses lawyers that know a little guitar? Those aren’t musicians. I’m talking about professional musicians or talented musicians. It’s not a good album. The performances are bad, the singing can be bad especially when John (h addiction) and George sang, and the songs weren’t there. Besides the song let it be, I’ve got a feeling, there really isn’t anything there
@@aBeatleFan4ever I never met a musician that admired let it be. You’re delusional. It was universally panned by critics when it came out and deservedly so. The production was also poor. The choirs? As good as let it be was as a song, the choirs were absolutely awful. Across the universe is another good song . Again, John’s singing is terrible, the production is terrible, the choirs don’t work, and the performance sucks. The Beatles didn’t even think it was any good. They initially scrapped it and recorded Abby road to salvage their recording careers. It eventually came out anyway for financial reasons. Beatles were broke by 1970.
they make is sound like they hate each other and make out that every thing said was said with so much vain. paul and john would hang out and get high and laugh there asses off. Everyone gets frustrated at work. perspective is a powerful thing
G e o r g e. Demise of band, yet he shines. Stabbed by a psycho home intruder, lives on. Sued for copyright infringement, gets free publicity for his hit. What a guy. Oh, ps- Maxwells Silver Hammer is the shite that shite shits.
Sometimes you have to step back from a creative project and your personal investment in your part and see the composition as more than the sum of its parts. It's really telling that John could not do that with side two in general and the medley in particular. Everytime I listen to side two, I hear something new, something to inspire and enrapture. Their magic is woven throughout it; the blend of their individual musicianship and composing genius, the production and arrangement. It's an incredible collaboration, as brilliant as anything they ever did. Shame John didn't appreciate it more because it was innovative then and timeless now, an essential cornerstone of the Beatles canon.
Side 2 medley is pure gold and was the perfect send off.
All of Side 2 is phenomenal, and the sequencing is part of that. By the time you reach the solos, they come as a climax, a peak and then a cathartic release of the musical and emotional tension that has been building under the surface. Then the final declaration, the summing-up, the statement of principle, all you need to know, and that towards which the Beatles' whole career(s) have been leading, their final act and the very last thing they, as a group, will ever say to us, 16 syllables delivered as 4 lines of 4 each:
And in the end
The love you take
Is e-qual to
The love... you make.
... Like for just one example, the love that was made in the act of creation of that roughly 20 minutes of music, and that is then re-made every time you listen to that album side.
But wait! ... There's a little treat still to come. That last act of creation and love DID end with "The End", and this is made clear by some 14 seconds (? I think) of silence that serves as a boundary between The End and whatever might come next. Your brain is clearing its cache, building a buffer zone that gently eases the door closed on The End.
Some time and space is given over to afterglow, just sitting in the quiet, and then, as if to sit up and light a cigarette and begin to resume a more normal frame of mind, we get a wonderful little 23 seconds of a wonderful little song: An acoustic guitar playing a classic sounding set of chords walking up and down to each other and little fills and such, accompanied by a vocal that is short and sweet and classic in its own right as a very dry and British sense of humor in an ode to Her Majesty.
One of the most classic and brilliant album sides ever created. There's a reason why, more than 50 years after their breakup, a wealth of Beatles material of all sorts continues to not only live on but be created anew on the internet, and UA-cam in particular. They were and still are a singular phenomenon. And it all comes back to music, the music, which still sounds fresh and inventive and rewarding to listen to to this day.
Lennon would disagree.....
@@PaulFormentos i would you know it, as he in his final years talked about the beatles with a lot of passion and almost blaming himself and drug habbits having driven Beatles career to a final not that friendly , you can see this interview on US TV , while recording his last album which is great , here on youtube search for john lennon´s last interview on tv
@@PaulFormentos - John would have disagreed in 1970 and probably still in 1980... but I have to wonder how he would feel about it now. I think he just might have come around to see all the wonderful beauty and magic of the medley - and how it has affected the world for so many decades.
@@aBeatleFan4ever Nice thought
The medley that ends "Abbey Road" is the pinnacle of what The Beatles accomplished as a group.
It will remain one of the greatest musical treats of all time for generations to come...
Well, I'd say that's more of a subjective opinion and a matter of taste, rather than a "fact", IMO.
@@We_All_Seek_Truth it´s true you can see the evolution of early days to the end that none of them knew it would be their last album but as some of the best songs made by the famous four and George Harrison contributed with the best songs they made after 1966
@@We_All_Seek_Truth - I didn't called it a "fact". It's a personal opinion. Do YOU not see it as "one of the greatest musical treats"..? Do YOU not see it as the "pinnacle of what The Beatles accomplished as a group"..? If not - what do YOU see as the pinnacle..?
@@aBeatleFan4ever the fact that all were not expecting to be known as they were
In my opinion. the medley--actually the entire second side--is the greatest piece of music ever created and performed. It include an almost infinite amount of the "unexplained magic" mentioned by the narrator. And that IS a fact.
There will never be another Beatles.
That is a truism.
As long as there will never be another Yoko, I can live with that.
@@Mister_Jimmy ua-cam.com/video/SMOABV_zgrk/v-deo.htmlsi=9E1LwOjDjCea0Int
@@Mister_Jimmy oh no !, not with Yoko. You are so right.
I guess y'all haven't heard of the lemon twigs
George new times were changing and the music too. I was lucky enough to meet and watch George play. He was so humble and talented. RIP George and John 🙏✌️🤘🎸🥁🇦🇺
I always thought highly of George as well, but when they (the narrator) said that about him when Geoff Emerick told (or asked?) George to turn down his amp because it was producing a hum and George said "You do not tell 'a Beatle' to turn down his amp." it sounds so out of character for what I understood about his gentle, humble character! Maybe George's personality WAS adversely affected by being so rich, and famous, and highly respected, and let's not forget Pattie Boyd being his wife! That little tidbit of what he (supposedly) said to the (lowly) engineer kinda jarred my mind a bit.
And without George, the Beatles just fell apart!
@@We_All_Seek_Truth- No, I think
George was tired of being left out and afraid to come to Paul and John with a song he was writing for they basically told him to piss off because he was not producing anything worth their time.
That along with disgusting Yoko stealing one of his biscuit cookie.
@@We_All_Seek_Truth idk if it’s possible to be THAT huge, that famous & prolific, that loved, without getting at least a bit of the “do you know who I am?!?!” ego
@@We_All_Seek_Truth seriously. people act like george was a saint. they were all genius drama queens to varying degrees, although George wrote at a glacial pace
Abbey Road is my favorite from the The Beatles. Even though they weren’t getting along as a band any longer, they managed to create one of the greatest albums of all time.
You think the songs are good besides come together and George’s songs? It’s a weak album IMO. Not their best songs. No day in the life or got to get you in my life
@@jamiehovis7722 that´s your personal taste, i´m not saying it´s their best album but as some of their best songs , without a dout
@@RUfromthe40s it’s some of their weakest songs* the production and performances are good, the songs not so much
@@jamiehovis7722 it depends of one´s taste , i like it as it shows their own taste in music or how the Beatles should sound at the time the beatband was already gone, also as i said before some of their best songs are in it most of them by George Harrison , like here comes the sun, something and come together by john and paul. Some say they were enemy´s towards the end but even Imagine is co-written by John and Paul, in John Lennon´s album, at least is what it says in the record cover, they were not getting along for some month or even a year but they become friends as always, like in the song "...the last song you wrotte was yesterday.."not yesterday but in 1965, that was also related with heavy drugs comsuption at the time, i guess what comes written in a magazine or newspapper becomes more true than reality, i can give other example like in the 90´s Oasis versus Blur but in reality if it wasn´t for Damon Albarn (or something like that)oASIS WOULD HAD NEVER RECORDed A lp, BUT MAGAZINES AND MTV ,matter more than reality , sorry for the caps lock it got a will of it´s own, to be more acurate also Justine from Elastica the girlfriend of mr.Damon at the time, as the Blur album parklife and the great escape sounded not like Blur anymore but live played was perfect all playing perfect but the guitar full of distortion and loud , this in indoors concerts, that made me like them again, even after i bought THE two AlbumS, THAT I DIDN´T LIKE THEM AS WHEN THEY werE RELEASED, sorry for the caps lock it´s activating on it´s own. the Beatles had the same treatment it sold more magazines at the time as "the best band in the world" ended but not because of that ,other issues happened with other the beatles menbers, all together made them split, by the time they released the Abbey road album they didn´t knew it was going to be their last, this said by them in anthology DVD´s released in the 90´s in VHS also as at the time not all had DVD players the video was a important gadjet at everybody´s home, dvd didn´t end it as people were used to do more in all VHS VCR functions,, i have a Philips video also released as Pioneer that as great image and sound ,never saw other VHS video with such quality, that i was using still in 2010, with my old CRT tv, that was also where one could use the full quality of the playstation two from my kids, only stoped using it when in 2017 it failed for the first time, it was a Sony that cost a lot of money, i drift from the main topic
@@RUfromthe40s lmagine isn’t Lennon/mccartney. Just Lennon. I think now it says Lennon/ono. I can’t understand anything else you said.
Sorry for the double dip. They were going to call the album Everest and fly to Nepal to take photos of the Beatles with the mountain behind them...Pauls idea. As everyone was grumbling about having to fly to Nepal, Ringo spoke and said why don't we just call it Abby Road and take pictures of us in front of the studio.
Thank you Ringo!!!!!!
@@benpoverelli5450 the picture when you open the red and blue compilations all stereo for the first time, four-track recording ,but i really don´t know if the mono versions were more better sounding as the stereo was still in it´s first years only at Abbey Road the album was all recorded in stereo, their choice as it was available for years before they did the first recording in stereo,"...in the documentary ,extended version of let it be recording sessions", by dull mr. Peter jackson is refered that in the recording only ringo´s drums were originally recorded in stereo in one of trhe songs, has we can see Alan parson´s working as a recording especialist in his youth,well before he had his Project
Was it Ringo's idea? Good ole Ringo, he also came up with A Hard Days Night, Octopus' Garden and Tomorrow never Knows...song tlitles too.😄
@@jaymo8206 I know, right? I think he came up with 8 days a week, as well. Why did he not get songwriting credit, I wonder.
It's spelled: ABBEY. Do your research before commenting.
You swung that bad and hit that ball way past the bleachers man! You do exceptional documentary examinations of all artists that you make videos for. Always grateful for you.
Oh Darling is one of the most killer vocals ever.
"In Me Lives He"
Yes!
Someone had to say it.
Dick Clark
Abbey Manor
For some reason Yoko hated purple, George immediately started wearing purple to annoy her.
Джордж оригинален😂?
How childish.
@@sratus Not as childish as Harrison getting angry about her eating his digestives ;)
I'll start wearing purple! I'm moving to NYC and near das Dakota!
@@blackmore4 perhaps it was a chocolate digestive? That WOULD be annoying!
I can’t even imagine how loud silence was in the room after Yoko climbed on the bed
Yea, who does that? What kind of a person would you have to be to feel comfortable doing that? It's borderline insane. It's completely self indulgent and dismissive of everyone else involved.
I heard the story before of Yoko stealing one of George's biscuits, but the way I'd heard it he wasn't mad and he didn't say "bitch", he was more amused and amazed that she had snuck over thinking no one was watching. And he pointed it out to someone else, "look, she's just stolen one of my biscuits" in an amused almost laughing but incredulous voice. What a strange lady Yoko is...
She should have climbed out of the forth floor window.
Makes The Rutles spoof seem like a serious documentary.
There will never be anorher group like the Beatles.
Thank you for providing this insight into the creation of Abbey Road. After watching, I listened to side 2, and my god, it brought me to tears. When it was released 55 years ago, I bought a guitar (for $12), and the Abbey Road song book, and I've been playing music ever since.
There will never [in our lifetimes] be an organization as gifted, magical BEATLES,, GODBLESS YA FABS,,,[ from a 60 yrfan],, gratzia tanto!!!!!
Grazie ☝️
No, I simply can't see it. AI will be writing music. Ugggh
These videos are so well made and a treat to watch. Thank you! 😊
So glad they all came together to make this last incredible album. Even in arguing they still are and will be the greatest band in the world. I so wish we still had John and George in this world. Thanks for your video. It was great to watch. 😊
Still a few to go after this one
Side 2 (of the lp) is a bloody masterpiece.
Sun king has some very deep lyrics
This series is beyond brilliant!!! Love it!
damn i was watching and didnt reload the page until right now i will be watching this right now great stuff
Where to begin… so many song “children” were birthed in those sessions. Imagine never hearing Something, Come Together, Here Comes the Sun, Oh Darling etc… our lives were affected for decades from the hours they spent in Abbey Road.
The Beatles didn’t spend any time in Abbey Road. They didn’t record a single note of music at Abbey Road Studios.
Wheut?
@@Phil-zd8tn they recorded at EMI Studios. EMI Studios didn’t change its name to Abbey Road Studios until 1976, 6 years after the Beatles split up.
Thank you again for your amazing informational documentary.
So much... 1st - The Beatles finally realize it's really hard to record off a mixing board made out of "Bits of wood, and an Oscilloscope." Bye, Bye to Magic Alex? 😃Abby Road was I think the greatest of the Beatles' albums and it does give one the feeling when you listen to the end of it that sadly, we're saying goodbye to the Beatles as a group together. With all that went on recording it, it's amazing it was finished. Yoko wasn't stingy on just wanting her bed to herself. I see Linda McCartney and others sitting with her at 19:19. I had a band in high school in 1971 and our Drummer's solo was done off of Ringo's from Abby Road, I think a lot of drummers used his opening "beats" for solos in the 70's. That whole final closing of "The End" is something that you'll always remember once you hear it.
What we love The Beatles for?
Brilliant melodies, harmonies, riffs, vibe. There was so much music in their music. Carefully crafted magic vocal harmonies, chords, nice song structures. 90% of it would never happen if it were not Paul and George Martin. They were always pursuing perfection. They were chasing that magic feeling in music when it sounds just excellent. They were literally fullfilling their musical dreams. Beatles would never sound so musically interesting and pleasant if it were not Paul and George Martin. . Somebody had to put pieces of the puzzle together in a genious way.
Completely agree! I always considered George Martin the fifth Beatle.
And yet the best sounding post Beatles albums are John's
George Martin had little to nothing to do with the songwriting. What are you talking about? And what part of strawberry fields forever did Paul write again? Or dear prudence?
It's "THE Beatles", love. Bedtime, Yoko?
IMHO, the Beatles had magic. Impossible to really define, but you know when it's there. They had it, from the very beginning.
The last recorded album.
Awesome video!
Thanks for another great doc.! As conflicted as the group was, they were very fortunate to have some good Adult Supervision - Sir George Martin. Without him, I don't think the group would have lasted nearly as long, or had the same musical & cultural impact. From my reading of the bio about The Buffalo Springfield, that group had very similar personality issues as The Beatles and lasted barely two and a half years basically because they didn't have a real producer. Too bad there wasn't someone like George Marin in L.A. during their time together, or at the very least, an experienced manager .
Love your videos. Definitely a channel I see on the rise soon.Keep grinding✌️
From the very beginning of their recordings they were brilliant at three part harmonies live, & no band since have matched the classics they recorded from the minute they began Love Me Do to The End❤️
Video well pieced together to tell the story. Thanks.
such great video. a real testament of how hard it is to make magic. i enjoy watching the get back sessions as they evolve in the process from a little idea into a memorable song. thanks for making these.
The Beatles' legendary status owes a lot to Abbey Road...It would be greatly diminished without it...
The medley is truly genius. They might be bits and pieces, but they're awesome bits and pieces
Group Therapy….that’s literally all they needed.
John made being in the studio a nightmare. He could be a tyrant plus his screecher groupie wife. The Beatles would have been much better off without her distractions in the studio.
@@ReviewsChannel-e4r True, but Lennon needed a handler
As long as Yoko was in the picture no amount of therapy would make them change for the better!
No. They had grown apart.
No. They had several problems that weren't going to be resolved. They had completely different visions of what the band should be doing. They wanted to prove they could do it without each other.
I still get emotional listening to You Never Give Me Your Money knowing that this would be the The Beatles final swansong. Side 2 is a masterpiece ❤
I do when Paul says "one sweet dream came true, today."
I played guitar in a band in the early eighties, as part of one of our sets, we played the medley from "Abbey Road" side 2 at a bar gig, it didn't go over well as one patron in the back of the room kept screaming "Fog Hat!", we scrapped it from the set list after that night. P.S., we never added a "Fog Hat" song to our repertoire.
I just want to say terrific job on all of these. I hope there are plenty more in the works. Spot on
I'm just writing the script to The Beatles recording of rubber soul. This will be a good one. But could be a few weeks.
@@filmretrospective63 good material is worth the wait.
My favorite album of theirs. When I got the 2009 cd remasters in mono and stereo, I has to decide which to listen to first. Easy, Abbey Road. The Beatles went out on top. What an incredible legacy they leave behind.
A most excellent video!👍🏻🍏🍏🍏🍏
You capture the sessions and what really happened better than anyone can without live footage. The way you edit makes me feel like I’m watching a documentary which moves along well. I always wished they had filmed the White Album and Pepper sessions. Not Get Back as it was at the end. Thanks so much for what you do! Excellent job! 😮😊
To me, after the huge debacle that were the Get Back sessions, it's amazing they could even come together to do Abbey Road. Most people realize that although Let It Be was the last RELEASED album, Abbey Road was the last recorded. Paul knew that Allen Klein managing their business affairs would end in disaster, so given their behavior during these sessions, left the band for good. The other three had left before this, but never officially & legally. I find it both a marvel and a huge gift that this album was completed and released at all. What would the world be like without Here Comes the Sun and Something!? Two of the best songs The Beatles ever recorded.
John did leave the band, but not financially. 8 months later Paul had to admit it was over and took the blame. For which ironically John blamed him because he wanted to be the one to break up the Beatles.
Yoko in her bed inside the studio.... I've never heard the like. Absolutely ludicrous. Don't know how Paul, George, Ringo and George Martin stood it.
ludicrous,isn´t he a rapper well not a foil of tin but a piss of cloth
Yeah. Pretty bold and stupid. I didn't pay to hear her artless caterwauling, live, in front of her poseur-level installations at the Tate Modern.
No, i did not.
@@martinthomas5155 Yoko was some piece of work. She actually had called to McCartney's house in St John's Wood in London before she ever met Lennon. She wanted some of his lyrics to give as a gift and McCartney said no he didn't do that.
Later she met Lennon in an art gallery and pretended not to know who he was. She played Lennon and knew what strings to pull. "You and me are artists John the rest don't understand" "Everything is okay John mother is looking after you" He couldn't see or didn't want to see he was being played.
Eh, they still made a great album
@@RUfromthe40s lol yes, “Ludacris” who ironically (in an Alanis Morissette type way) also had a song called “Get Back”
John left the Beatles during the recording of Abbey Road. He recorded I want You( She's so Heavy), had the tape stopped abruptly by the engineer Geoff Emmerick , walked out of Abbey Road Studio and across Abbey Road. The album was finished without him and Paul a few months later announced the end of the Beatles. But truth be told John was not coming back and there really could not be any band without him and the others in it.
This is a factual scenario different from what I've read. Recording of "Abbey Road" finished with "The End" in mid August 1969. John's announcement of "I want a divorce" was mid September 1969.
@@iriemon1796 Ryan Reed Rolling Stone magazine 9/11/19: "IN A NEWLY unearthed recording from 1969, the Beatles‘ principal songwriters discuss tentative plans for a follow-up to their final LP Abbey Road, a revelation that shifts the canonical narrative of that album’s recording sessions and the band’s eventual break-up.
The tape - which dates back to September 8th, 1969, two weeks before Abbey Road‘s release - features a contentious conversation between John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison at Apple headquarters in London’s Savile Row. With Ringo Starr hospitalized and undergoing tests for intestinal issues, his bandmates talk about recording another album and a potential single for the Christmas market."
Lennon got into a car accident and was in the hospital when they recorded here comes the sun
Interesting video
Lennons polythene pam is really great
I think it may just be the way it is presented in this video but makes me think that 90% of the all the problems they had was because of John acting like a spoiled child (thanks to all those who gave constructive criticism for me)
Not 90% but certainly 50. You have to remember, as well meaning as Paul was the others resented him for being a workaholic. They were lazy and ofc were thankful for it later but at the time they weren’t as keen. George had his issues with Paul dating back to when they were kids, which set in place a baby brother complex
Paul and George had their own problems, but John was always the biggest problem maker of the group. Also Yoko.
I couldn't disagree more. The Beatles were growing up. Don't forget how young they were when they began their careers. They were tired of being "the four headed monster" and wanted to get on with their lives.
I think George was the one pouring cold water on every suggestion anyone came up with. He was so negative throughout Get Back it just got irritating. Such a primadonna. John was just goofing off but the work got done. At least he wasn't adamant he didn't want to do anything at all like George was.
@@stitchgrimly6167George was a pain in the arse
Iove the white album and abbey road. 2 of the greatest albulms of all time. Full of brilliant songs. I love Maxwells silver hammer, i have no idea why some people dislike it so much. Maybe because im from that time, i grew up with the Beatles and the evolution.
And Revolver!
rubber soul, too
I think people don't like it because it caused some many problems recording among the band. Now Honey pie, that's a song to hate, lol
These are awesomely well researched and put together.
Unlike Yoko, Linda had class & new how to respect the Beatles space.
New? Or knew?
She was also not on heroin
@@RambletambleforeverGimme a break. Drugs don't excuse her constant obnoxious, bizzare, and selfish behavior. She was always that way
Both those women probably knew how to spell 'knew'.
This is the real deal, passionate and informative from beginning to end. Usually, when people do videos about how the Beatles made their music, it's half hype/spin/convenient generalizations.
My absolute favourite Beatles album. It was George Martin who stated “ we must make this they way used to”!
geoff emoricks book calls this all into question as the beatles had already begun doing sessions right after "get back" without involving martin.
@ I have the old VHS when George says it.
@@bullfrommull yeah martin said it but geoffs book points out that the lp was well underway before martin got involved so the story cannot be true.
@ so the rest of was not .or was the greatest producer ever lying?
@ I have the Mark Lewishons Complete recording sessions.
Side 2 of Abbey Road was absolutely brilliant. I loved that album.
This was great, thanks!
Her Majesty was not deliberately put at the end. It was part of the medley but cut out., with the trim being added at final assembly, not wanting to waste a recording.
Came here to post this...
Not included on first UK pressing.
It's the most Beatles thing ever to have this masterpiece end on the most epic lines imaginable ("And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...").... and then throw a whimsical little ditty like "Her Majesty" on as the true closer. I love it because it confounds the legend, thus making the legend grow. Brilliant.
@@madlift I see your point and it's a good point but I can't bear 'Her Majesty' following the beyond awesome 'The End'. I put 'Her Majesty' with the Past Masters 2 tracks.
@@marcjohnson9270 Not true - Her Majesty was always there on the record, it was part of the master (accidentally, initially...)
Legends al!!! ❤❤❤❤
😀Thanks!
Despite the fact that the sessions were plagued with acrimony and arguments, the final album is a testament to the individual talents of the four young men. As Martin observed, when the four were together in the studio, something magical happened. With the exception of Maxwell, I think the album is the crowning glory of the group that changed the world.
Maxwell.... along with Obladi, Bungalo Bill... there was a couple rubbish nests but the rest were genius
Thanks!
13:25 "Thomas went away believing Paul just simply couldn't be bothered anymore."
Again with this negative commentary. McCartney came in early before the others for numerous days - recording a vocal early in the day to try and get the best sound he could for "Oh Darling" until he got the one he liked best. Paul worked his ass off all the time... for both his songs - and the songs of his bandmates. And yet here you are - giving us some nonsense about how "Paul couldn't be bothered anymore". What a load of BS.
It gets tiring people slagging off Paul, he added so much to the others songs especially John's and there would be no Abbey Road without Paul
@@toxicsausage302 off course they had to find a new bass player, i think in a moment all turned to him and said in unissunus ,shave or leave ,beirds are taken
Don't get ur panties in a twist boys, it's only a rock group!
The narrator is reporting what *Thomas* thought at the time.
Thomas was later proved wrong.
It is absolutely appropriate to report Thomas's disappointment that the session didn't go well, and also to report that Paul nailed the vocal in a later session.
Note that the narrator neither agrees nor disagrees with Thomas. The narrator simply reports what happened at the time.
Another McCartney apologist that can't stand the thought of anyone giving an honest opinion of Paul, if that opinion doesn't hold him in the highest light. You McCartney fans need to just get a bronze statue of Paul, and pray to it. If you only knew how crazy you come off with this devout praise to Paul.
10 years later Paul and John were friends again and were talking about getting back together. They talked to George and he was not against the idea and so was Ringo. What could have been!!!!!!!
Because George couldn't stand Paul.
I heard a comment that working with him on Free as a Bird and Real Love gave him a headache.
Paul and John would always make up, but George and Paul would never have worked.
It's a miracle we got the Anthology reunion. That was our Beatles reunion and no bugger cared.
The old shit would have come up. Look at any other reunions. Look at Simon and Garfunkel. They make up and then break up on the exact same thing. They can see it from miles away and can't stop it.
Paul's ego/veneer would be too much for George. He's playing the ukelele over P's rambling on the Anthology segment
(IMHO) Abbey Road is the true Beatles magnum opus...not Pepper. What a way to go out
Agree; pepper came out at their popularity peak me thinks and paired with its mythos it’s their most important album paired with abbey road of course, because as you said it’s their opus
The End.
Your taste isn't absolute
@@cahillgreg Precisely.
@@cahillgreg Agree. Writing that something "IS" the best is beyond ridiculous. And pompous in the extreme.
Thanks!
The Beatles are my generation's gift to the world.
It was during the Abbey Road sessions that all four of the Beatles, and George Martin all took turns sleeping with Yoko in the studio while recording was happening.
Get over yourself, hippie 😅
@@mikejones7593 That would be a tough argument. REM is good, but too many competitors on their level or higher. The Beatles were untouchable, from ANY generation.
REM is not in that league, even in their own generation. So, that's a bit of a stretch.
@@mikejones7593 You won't find REM listed in ANYONE's top 100 bands of all time. Lol.
It's ok that you like them. But REM is not important. They certainly are not, and never will be 'historic' on the level of the Beatles, and never had the musicianship of the guys in Yes.
"My Generation," is my generation's gift to 🎶 music!!
“Drugs, divorce, and a slipping image play desperately on their minds and it appeared to all that the public was being encouraged to hate them.”
Boy that would make a great title for a bootleg. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Incredible and quite *shocking* all this apparent drama was taking place during those last recording sessions. Those songs played, as they were released to the public, all seemed brilliant, well-rehearsed and flawlessly performed as with a group project and spirit. What we all 'heard' at the time of its commercial release, was once again... Sonic-Beatles Magic. And despite these details... that magic, I believe... will continue to be how the songs were created as a whole... to be played and remembered throughout time.
The only thing magic about this Alex character was his ability to fool people into thinking he was some kind of genius lol 🤡
There are lots of them around today, especially in the computer world. People who know all the lingo but if you could pin them down could actually do nothing.
A manipulator, like the dark one.
It’s true about stripping the finish on some guitars. Doesn’t work on all, but for some, it really opens up the sound. It seems to resonate more. It has a slight acoustic quality about it. It seems to work on Fender Telecasters really well. Some basses respond to it too, but mainly guitars.
here comes the sun the greatest beatle song in my opinion..George was always overlooked by the band but he wrote their greatest song
That would be "Something".
@@JagadguruSvamiVegananda To meet you in the pooring rain mama
As Sinatra said, Something is the the most beautiful Lennon and McCartney love song!
@@MrTennis88 Ole frankie was prolly drunk
My sweet lord! Can anyone compare to George Harrison? If the Beatles went on another 5 years…George would’ve been the leader. No album, post Beatles, compares to All Things Must Pass.
One Of My All Time Favorite Beatles Album,The Beatles Are The Best 💯 Period
Though Her Majesty ended up at the end of Abbey Road, it wasn’t originally intended to appear there.
Yes, and to my mind, the only mistake the group made. Finishing on "...and in the end..." would've been a perfect full stop to the album, and to The Beatles.
@@davidhutchison8349 Sometimes I feel the same about it but eventually realize it was for good that it ended up like that. True surprise effect indeed. That's very The Beatles.
It's the most Beatles thing ever to have this masterpiece end on the most epic lines imaginable ("And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...").... and then throw a whimsical little ditty like "Her Majesty" on as the true closer. I love it because it confounds the legend, thus making the legend grow. Brilliant.
Just joined your Patreon. This video was fabulous. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I watched this two times!
Quick exclamation mark restore my sanity. Old brown shoe was a flip side,--
Paul looks so great in this video.
Sir Paul McCartney Rock’s!
I’m afraid I must take umbrage with George Martin’s statement about George Harrison finally delivering the goods with Here comes the sun, Taxman and While my guitar gently weeps are equal to anything by Lennon and McCartney!😢
Taxman doesn’t have the weight to it. “Guitar” to me is a bit overrated but I see why it is great. I Belive Martin is right.
I disagree. While they are excellent songs by any standard, they don't have the quality of McCartney and Lennon tunes. While my guitar gently weeps is over rated in my book. Too boring of a song, I ussualy skip it
When they were recording on February 22nd of 1969... they were not "beginning the sessions for "Abbey Road". At that point - it was basically a continuation of what they had been doing in January. They didn't start sessions for what was to become a new album until the summer of 1969 - when they had all agreed to have George Martin produce again in the way he had done for their previous albums. One could say that a lot of the material that ended up on the "Abbey Road" album had begun being worked on from the beginning of 1969 - including January. But the group didn't get back together and start new recording sessions for a new LP until July.
All of this is very sad and I lived through all of this but it really doesn't matter just beautiful music when we needed it. God bless all of us.
Absolutely fascinating.
What a great piece of work
I don't know how the other three Beatles endured that screecher Yoko. John was a narcissist and studio tyrant.
Watched most of your video's, you've done a good job, thanks. I think they grew apart, not helped by Brian no longer being there & the disastrous business decisions they made. John sounds like he's on the heaviest trip of all - Heroin. Considering the music industry of that time, the rip off managers, the record labels punishing schedule, growing up in the public eye, it's a wonder they lasted that long. They left some great music though.
George Harrison told a funny story about the song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" he was on holiday and the new Beatles record came on the radio. George listened and said laughing "I really can't remember playing on that"😂😂😂
Brilliant so true because it was John and Paul on there own 😂
That song sux
Old brown shoe ❤
it only came out as a extra song in a single ,one of get back many versions, today cds alignment isn´t like it was then ,i had to buy the single or don´t let me down and the ballad of john and yoko were never in any lp the red and blue doble lp´s didn´t had them only added on the cds
@@Derrymcg one of the best rythm on a beatles song
This is what I wish was on the anthology! We didn’t get enough Abbey Road on that collection this is great!
Yoko, the biggest hemorrhoid of rock and roll.
ABSOLUTELY TRUE BUT I ALWAYS FELT JOHN WASN'T GIVEN ENOUGH CREDIT FOR BRINGING HER INTO THE FOLD. IT CERTAINLY WASN'T PAUL OR GEORGE OR RINGOS DOING AND SHE DIDN'T BRING HERSELF.
@@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 : A rather liberal use of the term "credit".
@@jeffphakenewz8556 remember always give credit where credit is due. 😂
With magic Alex as a close second.
@@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 i don´t see it that way ,each to his own , he crazy ,she burned up in the brain
6:29 You mention that "I Want You" was the last song to be mixed... but you fail to state when that was (in August) so it comes across without any context. You are talking about February 22nd directly before it - and then February 25th directly after it... so it unintentionally seems like you were saying that the group "would never set foot in the studio again" while talking about February of 1969. It's just very poorly presented.
The Beatles clearly had at least one more album left in them. From the tapes of their last band meeting, John suggested that the next album be divided up equally with 4 songs each for John, Paul and George, and Ringo getting one or two songs. That would have made for an interesting album. Then again, Abbey Road is the perfect swan song, so history for the win.
Oh Darling is best of Abbey Road but whole album is suberb
I think the Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End medley is one of the greatest things they ever did. A perfect close to their final album.
Oh Darling is one of my least favorite songs on the album. Still great, but nowhere near as great as Something, Here Comes the Sun, Come Together, You never give me your money, Golden Slumbers, She Came in through the bathroom window, Because, or even Octopuses Garden.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Yes I agree. Have you seen UA-cam video at Albert Hall?
Oh Darling! is the song that started my listening to the Beatles.
I recall being transfixed the first time I heard Abbey Road through the first time.
I got high and listened again.
Yep, it was as amazing as I first thought.
Are you still high?
@@pawelpap9 That was 50 years ago.
As individual musicians, as well as men, the four Beatles had grown so much in a relatively brief period of time. From 1962 to 1969 they had grown and evolved to the point that they all needed to go their own ways. From the days of playing on stage in Hamburg, to recording Abbey Road, they had been through things that no other human being on earth had experienced. I once met an engineer who had worked with George Harrison during his solo career, working both on some of his solo albums. I asked him what George was like... was he a 'normal guy'? His reply was incredibly telling. "NORMAL??? For GOD'S SAKE he was a Beatle... one of only four people to experience what he had. Normal, no... but a really great man for sure!" At least the Beatles finished off their recording career with the gem that is Abbey Road.
I agree about the incredible rapid trajectory of their growth and development personally and professionally. They left at exactly the right time. Everything about them showed their excellent judgement and instincts. Pure class, always.
A lot of people experienced what they experienced. Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, nirvana. Maybe not in the same numbers or impact on culture. But they all grinded in the clubs, recorded, and toured.
I love "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I never understood the hate for it. The way the dark lyrics contrast with the bouncy music is brilliant. The problem with Paul's "granny songs" happens when all the elements are too sweet. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" has a playful irony that saves it from that.
If memory serves, George Harrison referred to Paul's songs as "fruity".
Paul forced the others to do it over and over and over again to their disgust.
Paul forced the others to do it over and over and over again to their disgust.
That wasn't a "granny song" that was a "six year old's song"
Great documentaries.Thanx!
Seems like by 1969, the Beatles all got really big-headed, acting like the assholes they used to mock so easily in the Hard Days Night days. They forgot how to not take themselves so seriously.
Which is why they never reformed.
@@joepermenter7228 John Lennon said, "The Beatles broke up out of sheer boredom." Sadly, I think it's true, they just got bored of each other.
@@jadentrez I didn't say shit about their break up.
I didn't know about the 'Magic Alex' board. 🤣🤣Excellent presentation!
Its The Beatles love.
24:20 I always heard that 'Her Majesty' coming in as a hidden track was an accident? It was cut from being between 'Mean Mr. Mustard' and 'Polythene Pam', and because no Beatles music was to be discarded it was taped to the end of the master tape spool. A note was left for the vinyl cutting engineers to stop the tape after 'The End', but they didn't realize they meant the song 'the End'. That's why 'Her Majesty' came crashing in 20 seconds after the album was supposed to have finished. The Beatles didn’t hear this until they were listening to the finished product before giving it the go ahead to press the albums. The Beatles liked the mistake and left it that way. It wasn't decided by them to do it to begin with.
It has always seemed obvious to me that "Get Back Jo-Jo" was Paul saying "Get Back Yoko". Am I wrong? I doubt she "broke up the Beatles", but I also doubt the other 3 Beatles appreciated her being in the studio at all times.
I think " Jo Jo " is Linda's ex husband. She got the house in Tucson. Hence the song title. But I dig your theory.
@@StephenS-2025 Could be, as Grampa Simpson said, "A little from column A, a little from column B" ;-)
@@jaycossey850 ....so, I tied an onion to muh belt, ' cause that's what we did in my d..zzzzzzzzzz.
"I need some wheels Help me Help Me"
Amazing Abbey Road ever got finished. One of my favorite Beatles albums.
Most people love the Side 2 medley which Paul wanted and created and John hated
Just shows mostbof the best stuff came from Paul not Saint John
Lennon had a few real gems but, in my humble little opinion, McCartney was the superior songwriter.....BY FAR.
the best came from george, not george best i´m refering to the last songs recorded by george harrison like here comes the sun and here comes the weed or here comes the heroin, not refering to Yoko Ono
Yet the most acclamed songs from the album (besides Harrison's) are Lennon's - Come Together and I Want You.
Also, if you compare the average ratings of Lennon's and McCartney's songs on the album, the difference isn't too big - 4.17 out of 5 for Lennon and 4.2 for McCartney.
Also, in most of the song "duels" throughout the history of the Beatles Lennon's song was more acclaimed: Strawberry Fields Forever vs Penny Lane, Lady Madonna vs Hey Bulldog, Rain vs Paperback Writer, I Feel Fine vs She's a Woman, I Am the Walrus vs Hello Goodbye.
Also, out of 20 best rated Beatles songs 9 are Lennon's: Strawberry Fields Forever, In My Life (although the authorship is disputed), Tomorrow Never Knows, I Want You, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Come Together, I'm Only Sleeping, Norwegian Wood, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. And only 7 are McCartneys: Eleanor Rigby (although the authorship is disputed), Yesterday, Helter Skelter, Penny Lane, Blackbird, Carry That Weight, Let It Be. The top song is a collaborative one - A Day in the Life. The second one is Lennon's - Strawberry Fields Forever.
* Ratings taken from RateYourMusic
@@stravvman i do not give value to those ratings some never heard all beatles LP´s only top hits as in compilations they have a lot of good songs and some better than the ones listed , not saying that some do are some of the best but what about several others lefted out, , and normally songs were starting as a lennon´s idea but mcartney gave the final touch to make them whole, that´s why it says lennon/mcartney ,this said by them in interviews done at the time ,it were a pair of excelent writters/composers, has i also give value to Harrison who wrotte by the last albums some of their best songs
@@RUfromthe40s Of course, it is impossible to compare the contributions of Lennon and McCartney based only on the ratings on one (althoght quite popular, expecially among "artistic" crowd) site. I have cited them simply as "objective" indicators in contrast to the opinion of OP, to show not that Lennon is better than McCartney, but at least that answering the question to which he answers so categorically is not as easy as it seems.
One thing the video doesn’t address is the running order of the medley. It was completely different originally until it was decided to completely rework it. Her Majesty was cut out and the tape operator simply stuck it on the end of the tape. Once they heard it that way they loved it and decided to keep it. It was never intended to be the tag on the end of the album. In fact the original pressings didn’t even list Her Majesty.
John Lennon was a fool when it came to people. He told them to hire Magic Alex as an electric genius. He was a con man who robbed them.
He encouraged the Beatles to hire Alien Klein who also robbed them. He recorded "Revolution 9" which was total rubbish.
Ringo was the only one without a huge ego.
Lennon was under the thumb of Yoko Ono, Paul wanted to run the Beatles, George was sick of Paul and John.
Paul wanted to go back on the road the John and George had no intention of doing that. John had found Yoko a good substitute for the Beatles as she massaged his ego and mothered him.
George had so many songs that he couldn't get on a Beatles album.
In the end he made All Things Must Pass.
Which outsold John and Paul.
George said years later that he thought 80% of the Beatles music was overrated but the remaining 20% was exceptional.
I think he was right.
It is always strange to hear them speak of the band. They say "Well the thing about The Beatles was..." or " The Beatles thing was huge" it's as if they see it as something that they are looking at from a distance.
None of them envisaged what would happen ( nobody did) four guys in a band and for the rest of your life nobody will let you forget the band.
Even when you die you'll be referred to as ex Beatle......that must be so strange.
It is almost impossible for anyone to surpass what they did in such a short time. Harrison was only 26 when they finished!!!He was 24 when he wrote "While my guitar gently weeps"
What a band.
I have agree with John for some reason Paul made granny songs that never really fit on the albums
A wonderful piece of work
I don't know why you choose to call them "the shoddy Get Back tapes". An excellent album (that would be another #1 LP) came out of the tapes that were recorded in January of 1969... as well as THREE #1 singles. When I listen to the music from that period... it doesn't seem "shoddy" to me - at all. And when I watch the film of the group from that period... it just doesn't come across as "shoddy".
Any musician would tell you the performances were poor and the songs mediocre
@@jamiehovis7722 - I've seen hundreds of musicians say exactly the opposite. You get to have your own opinion... but you are deep down in the minority.
@@aBeatleFan4ever you mean hobbiests? Accountants nurses lawyers that know a little guitar? Those aren’t musicians. I’m talking about professional musicians or talented musicians. It’s not a good album. The performances are bad, the singing can be bad especially when John (h addiction) and George sang, and the songs weren’t there. Besides the song let it be, I’ve got a feeling, there really isn’t anything there
@@jamiehovis7722 - The vast majority of pro musicians would disagree with you.
@@aBeatleFan4ever I never met a musician that admired let it be. You’re delusional. It was universally panned by critics when it came out and deservedly so.
The production was also poor. The choirs? As good as let it be was as a song, the choirs were absolutely awful.
Across the universe is another good song . Again, John’s singing is terrible, the production is terrible, the choirs don’t work, and the performance sucks.
The Beatles didn’t even think it was any good. They initially scrapped it and recorded Abby road to salvage their recording careers. It eventually came out anyway for financial reasons. Beatles were broke by 1970.
After listening to this, the best remedy for their studio tension, SMOKE SOME MARY JANE! It seems that they get along better after a good smoke.
they make is sound like they hate each other and make out that every thing said was said with so much vain. paul and john would hang out and get high and laugh there asses off. Everyone gets frustrated at work. perspective is a powerful thing
thats the Fab 4 kit in the Photo F.R. showed the Hollywood kit was the 5 peace kit from the get back sessions
G e o r g e. Demise of band, yet he shines. Stabbed by a psycho home intruder, lives on. Sued for copyright infringement, gets free publicity for his hit. What a guy.
Oh, ps- Maxwells Silver Hammer is the shite that shite shits.
And you are an idiot kid
George is ALIVE?????
Sometimes you have to step back from a creative project and your personal investment in your part and see the composition as more than the sum of its parts. It's really telling that John could not do that with side two in general and the medley in particular. Everytime I listen to side two, I hear something new, something to inspire and enrapture. Their magic is woven throughout it; the blend of their individual musicianship and composing genius, the production and arrangement. It's an incredible collaboration, as brilliant as anything they ever did. Shame John didn't appreciate it more because it was innovative then and timeless now, an essential cornerstone of the Beatles canon.
If not for Yoko, we easily could have had 2 or 3 more Beatles albums.
Well, we don't and the 13 they made are pretty spiffy
that is good , were you with them at the time,yoko wasn´t responsable for nothing or are you calling john a retarted person