[Today: the perfect swan song from the perfect group...]
“It doesn’t matter what we go through as individuals on the bullshit level, when it gets to the music you can see that it’s really cool, and we had all put in one thousand per cent.” So said Ringo Starr about the making of the last album The Beatles recorded together (Let It Be was released after – but recorded before – Abbey Road).
By all accounts tired of fame, wearying of each other, and suspicious of their management, The Beatles managed to pull one last glorious trick out of their collective bag. The music is very cool indeed – the song suite that comprises side two effortlessly stitched together fragments of a dozen incomplete songs from their past, and the whole album maintains a weightless gravity that musicians are still chasing nearly 40 years later.
More than the psychedelic tapestry of Sgt. Pepper’s or the eclectic virtuosity of The White Album, Abbey Road is The Beatles album that still sounds like it was recorded last week.
Tags: Abbey Road, The Beatles
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23 February 2010 at 2:59 pm |
This album is one of my ever ever loved albums.