Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. Named after the location of EMI Studios in London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing, an image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music. The album's initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success, topping record charts in the UK and US. The lead single "Something" / "Come Together" was released in October and topped the US charts. The album incorporates genres such as blues, rock and pop, and makes prominent use of Moog synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker, and tom-tom drums.
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Abbey Road | Introduction
"Come Together" "Come Together", "Octopus's Garden" Come Together, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Octopus's Garden etc "Come Together" is one of them.
who did george harrison wrote the song something for
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Pattie Boyd
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who was she?
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She is an English model and photographer.
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who sang the above mentioned song?
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Joe Cocker
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which album is it a part of?
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"Abbey Road"
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can you name some of the other tracks from it?
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All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison, and "Octopus's Garden" by Richard Starkey.
The Other Side of Abbey Road | Track listing
All songs on the EP were also featured on the band's hits compilation, "What Hits!?".
The Abbey Road E.P. | Introduction
"Abbey Road" also provides the cover parody (referencing the image of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road in various ways, such as "Kliff McBurtney" wearing bear slippers, and a van with the plate "28KLIFF"), and most of the track list, with opener "Come Together" and the 16-minute medley on the album's Side B. Among the exclusions were "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" - which Beatallica had already spoofed as "Ktulu (He's So Heavy)" - and the George Harrison compositions "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something", denied the inclusion by his estate.
Abbey Load | Introduction
Original US and UK pressings of "Abbey Road" do not list "Her Majesty" on the album's cover nor on the record label, making it a hidden track. The song title appears on the inlay card and disc of the 1987 remastered CD reissue, as track 17. It also appears on the sleeve, booklet and disc of the 2009 remastered CD reissue, but not on the cover or record label of the 2012 vinyl reissue.
Abbey Road | "Her Majesty"
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. Named after the location of EMI Studios in London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing, an image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music. The album's initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success, topping record charts in the UK and US. The lead single "Something" / "Come Together" was released in October and topped the US charts. The album incorporates genres such as blues, rock and pop, and makes prominent use of Moog synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker, and tom-tom drums.
Abbey Road | Introduction
Abbey Road most commonly refers to the eleventh studio album by The Beatles. Abbey Road may also refer to:
Abbey Road (disambiguation) | Introduction
A white Volkswagen Beetle is to the left of the picture, parked next to the zebra crossing, which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio. After the album was released, the number plate (LMW 281F) was repeatedly stolen from the car. In 2004, news sources published a claim made by retired American salesman Paul Cole that he was the man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture.
Abbey Road | Cover photo
It has been featured several times on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs", having been chosen by Sandie Shaw, Jerry Springer, Boris Johnson and Elaine Paige. The "Daily Telegraph"'s Martin Chilton said it was "almost impossible not to sing along to". Since digital downloads have become eligible to chart, it reached number 56 in 2010 after the Beatles' back catalogue was released on iTunes. Harrison recorded a guitar solo for this track that did not appear in the final mix. It was rediscovered in 2012, and footage of Martin and Harrison's son Dhani listening to it in the studio was released on the DVD of "".
Abbey Road | "Here Comes the Sun"
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by incorporating a medley. Lennon ultimately said that he disliked "Abbey Road" as a whole and felt that it lacked authenticity, calling McCartney's contributions "[music] for the grannies to dig" and not "real songs", and describing the medley as "junk ... just bits of songs thrown together".
Abbey Road | Recording history
According to Mark Lewisohn, Ian MacDonald, Barry Miles and Kevin Howlett The Beatles Additional musicians Production
Abbey Road | Personnel
It was noted as a highlight on the album for being more "stripped" than its "haunting, spare original." "Can't Get You Out of My Head" was cited as the "weirdest" on the album for displaying "weird, frenzied strings". The album's only new track, "Flower", was originally written while Minogue was recovering from her breast cancer diagnosis. The song was intended to be included on her "X" album, but was cut.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Composition
The tape box bore an instruction to leave "Her Majesty" off the final product, but the next day when mastering engineer Malcolm Davies received the tape, he (also trained not to throw anything away) cut a playback lacquer of the whole sequence, including "Her Majesty". The Beatles liked this effect and included it on the album. "Her Majesty" opens with the final, crashing chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard", while the final note remained buried in the mix of "Polythene Pam", as a result of being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley on 30 July. The medley was subsequently mixed again from scratch although the song was not touched again and still appears in its rough mix on the album.
Abbey Road | "Her Majesty"
Credits for "The Abbey Road Sessions" adapted from album liner notes.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Personnel
The Other Side of Abbey Road is a 1970 studio album by American guitarist George Benson of songs from the Beatles' 1969 album "Abbey Road". It was his last album for A&M Records. Online music service Rhapsody praised the album, calling it "winning", a "delightful release", and citing it as one of their 20 favorite cover albums.
The Other Side of Abbey Road | Introduction
All tracks produced by Steve Anderson and Colin Elliot, except "Flower" produced by Steve Anderson. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "The Abbey Road Sessions".
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Track listing
All lyrics by Tim Christensen, except where noted.
Live at Abbey Road Studios 2004 | Track listing
The Abbey Road Sessions is an extended play by English rock band Embrace. The EP was released in the form of a 2-CD set as a limited edition version of their single "My Weakness Is None of Your Business". The first CD came in a cardboard double gatefold CD sleeve and was available in record shops. In place of a second CD there was a card insert with the words: "Abbey Road Sessions Part 2 (for insertion into wallet) will be available later in the year details to follow". The second CD, Abbey Road Sessions Part 2, had three more tracks and was only available by mail order from the band.
The Abbey Road Sessions (EP) | Introduction
The same recording of "Fire", however, would be later included once again on the band's next studio album "Mother's Milk" in tribute to Hillel Slovak, the band's original guitarist who died of a heroin overdose and plays guitar on the track. The title and cover was a tribute to The Beatles' famous album "Abbey Road". Like the Beatles, the cover depicts the four bandmembers walking across a zebra crossing in single file, the twist being that they are all naked except for white tube socks covering their genitals. Wearing only socks in this manner was something they regularly employed in their stage shows at the time.
The Abbey Road E.P. | Introduction
"Because" was inspired by Lennon listening to Ono playing Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. He recalled he was "lying on the sofa in our house, listening to Yoko play ... Suddenly, I said, 'Can you play those chords backward?' She did, and I wrote 'Because' around them." The track features three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, which were then triple-tracked to give nine voices in the final mix. The group considered the vocals to be some of the hardest and most complex they attempted. Harrison played the Moog synthesizer, and Martin played the harpsichord that opens the track.
Abbey Road | "Because"
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Abbey Road | Charts
It is the Beatles' only album recorded exclusively through a solid-state transistor mixing desk, which afforded a clearer and brighter sound than the group's previous records. Side two contains a medley of shorter song fragments. The sessions also produced a non-album single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" backed with "Old Brown Shoe". Producer George Martin returned on the condition that the Beatles adhere to the discipline of their earlier records. They found the album's recording more enjoyable than the preceding "Get Back" sessions, but personal issues still permeated the band. Production lasted from February to August 1969, and the closing track "The End" marked the final occasion that all four members recorded together.
Abbey Road | Introduction
All the tracks were recorded live at Abbey Road Studios on 19 October 1997. Versions of all the songs on this EP appear on their debut album "The Good Will Out".
The Abbey Road Sessions (EP) | Introduction
The Best of Abbey Road is jazz vocalist Gary Williams's fifth album, released in 2010. It is a compilation album of songs from three albums recorded at Abbey Road Studios: Alone Together, In the Lounge with Gary Williams and Swingin' on Broadway.
The Best of Abbey Road | Introduction
"Her Majesty" was recorded by McCartney on 2 July when he arrived before the rest of the group at Abbey Road. It was originally included in a rough mix of the side two (eight-song) medley (known during the recording sessions as "The Long One" and officially available for the first time on the album's 3CD Super Deluxe edition box set), appearing between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam". McCartney disliked the way the medley sounded when it included "Her Majesty", so he asked for it to be cut. The second engineer, John Kurlander, had been instructed by George Martin not to throw out anything, so after McCartney left, he attached the track to the end of the master tape after 20 seconds of silence.
Abbey Road | "Her Majesty"
It was instead covered by Badfinger, while McCartney's original recording appeared on "Anthology 3". The original backing track to "Something", featuring a piano-led coda, and "You Never Give Me Your Money", which leads into a fast rock-n-roll jam session, have appeared on bootlegs.
Abbey Road | Unreleased material
The Abbey Road E.P. is an EP by The Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in the UK in May 1988 through EMI America as a way of introducing UK fans to the band's back catalog as they were touring the UK that year. Out of the five tracks included on this EP, four had already been previously released on the band's studio albums, although the band's first two albums "The Red Hot Chili Peppers" and "Freaky Styley" were not released in the UK until 1990, thus it provided a way of introducing tracks to new listeners. The only "new" track is a cover of the song "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, which was recorded during the sessions for "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" and included in a different mix as the b-side to "Fight Like a Brave".
The Abbey Road E.P. | Introduction
"Abbey Road" (1969) featured prominent use of the Moog synthesiser and the Leslie speaker, along with a medley of song fragments edited together to form a single piece.
List of songs recorded by the Beatles | Introduction
"Abbey Road" was recorded on eight-track reel-to-reel tape machines rather than the four-track machines that were used for earlier Beatles albums such as "Sgt Pepper", and was the first Beatles album not to be issued in mono. The album makes prominent use of guitar played through a Leslie speaker, and of the Moog synthesizer. The Moog is not merely used as a background effect but sometimes plays a central role, as in "Because", where it is used for the middle eight. It is also prominent on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "Here Comes the Sun". The synthesizer was introduced to the band by Harrison, who acquired one in November 1968 and used it to create his album "Electronic Sound".
Abbey Road | Technical aspects
The Beatles carried out overdubs on the track on 28 July, although many of these contributions, such as piano and electric piano, were subsequently cut. Recording was completed on 30 July, when the final vocal, guitar and percussion overdubs were taped. These included a second lead guitar part by Harrison, playing the descending notes (accompanying Lennon's spoken "Listen to that now. Oh, look out! Here she...") into the start of "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window".
Polythene Pam | Placement on "Abbey Road"
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The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Certifications
On the album "Abbey Road", the song is linked with the previous song "Mean Mr. Mustard" musically, as the two run together without pause. The two songs are also linked narratively, since "Mean Mr. Mustard" mentions that the title character Mustard has a sister named Pam. Originally, the line "his sister Pam ..." in the song was "his sister Shirley ...", but Lennon would change the line to contribute to the continuity of the "Abbey Road" side two medley. The song "Her Majesty" was originally set between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam". "Polythene Pam" then segues into the following song, "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window".
Polythene Pam | Placement on "Abbey Road"
John Lennon privately left the group six days before the album's release; Paul McCartney publicly declared the band's break-up the following April.
Abbey Road | Introduction
The remaster included additional photographs with additional liner notes and the first, limited edition, run also included a short documentary about the making of the album. In 2001, "Abbey Road" was certified 12× platinum by the RIAA. The album continues to be reissued on vinyl. It was included as part of the Beatles' "Collector's Crate" series in September 2009 and saw a remastered LP release on 180-gram vinyl in 2012.
Abbey Road | Continued sales and reissues
AllMusic's Richie Unterberger felt that the album shared "Sgt. Pepper"s "faux-conceptual forms", but had "stronger compositions", and wrote of its standing in the band's catalogue: "Whether "Abbey Road" is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of "Sgt. Pepper") and most tightly constructed." Ian MacDonald gave a mixed opinion of the album, noting that several tracks had been written at least a year previously, and would possibly have been unsuitable without being integrated into the medley on side two. He did, however, praise the production, particularly the sound of Starr's bass drum.
Abbey Road | Retrospective
The album was received well by critics and reviewers. Clive Fuller of In Tune commented: "Gary can have the lightest of touches with a song as well as a more robust approach when it is needed. The arrangements bring out the best from the song the musicians and the singer... Who could ever forget Vincent Youman's “More Than You Know” or Cole Porter’s “You’re Sensational”; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Surrey with the Fringe on Top”; the Gershwin’s “Isn’t it a Pity” and these are only 4 reasons why you should buy this album." Albert Killman of Journey into Melody said: "How often have we remarked "they don't make records like that anymore." Well, they still do and here's the glowing proof.
The Best of Abbey Road | Critical reception
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Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session) | Personnel
"The Abbey Road Sessions" received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". "The Guardian"s Caroline Sullivan said the more older songs on the album "sculpts them into grownup love songs sung by a Kylie who sounds [...] like a fortysomething woman who has encountered a few slings and arrows along the way." Matthew Horton of Virgin Media compared the album to Tori Amos and Pete Gabriel, writing that "[i]t's a brave gambit.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Critical response
Road to Abbey is the first EP by Indonesian rock band J-Rocks released in 2009. It was recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in the United Kingdom. This album marked J-Rocks as the first Indonesian band ever to record there.
Road to Abbey | Introduction
, the album had sold over 31 million copies worldwide and is one of the band's best-selling albums. In October 2019, "Abbey Road" re-entered the UK charts, again hitting number one. "Abbey Road" has remained in print since its first release in 1969. The original album was released on 26 September in the UK and 1 October in the US on Apple Records. It was reissued as a limited edition picture disc on vinyl in the US by Capitol on 27 December 1978, while a CD reissue of the album was released in 1987, with a remastered version appearing in 2009.
Abbey Road | Continued sales and reissues
While he found the medley on side two to be their "most impressive music" since "Rubber Soul", Nik Cohn of "The New York Times" said that, "individually", the album's songs are "nothing special". Albert Goldman of "Life" magazine wrote that "Abbey Road" "is not one of the Beatles' great albums" and, despite some "lovely" phrases and "stirring" segues, side two's suite "seems symbolic of the Beatles' latest phase, which might be described as the round-the-clock production of disposable music effects". Conversely, Chris Welch wrote in "Melody Maker": "the truth is, their latest LP is just a natural born gas, entirely free of pretension, deep meanings or symbolism … While production is simple compared to past intricacies, it is still extremely sophisticated and inventive." Derek Jewell of "The Sunday Times" found the album "refreshingly terse and unpretentious", and although he lamented the band's "cod-1920s jokes (Maxwell's Silver Hammer) and … Ringo's obligatory nursery arias (Octopus's Garden)", he considered that "Abbey Road" "touches higher peaks than did their last album".Fricke, David (2003).
Abbey Road | Contemporary
Furthur, a jam band including former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, played the entire "Abbey Road" album during its Spring Tour 2011. It began with a "Come Together" opener at Boston on 4 March and ended with the entire medley in New York City on 15 March, including "Her Majesty" as an encore.
Abbey Road | Cover versions
The Abbey Road Sessions is an orchestral compilation album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, released on 24 October 2012 by Parlophone. The album was primarily produced by Steve Anderson and Colin Elliot. The album features sixteen tracks, all radically reworked, spanning Minogue's 25 years in the music industry. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London with Minogue's band and a full orchestra during November 2011. Musically, the album is primarily orchestral music, which features several instrumentation of guitars, pianos, strings and drums. The album's lead single "Flower", which was originally written in 2007, was a new titled song to the album.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Introduction
The songs on "Abbey Road" have been covered many times and the album itself has been covered in its entirety. One month after "Abbey Road"s release, George Benson recorded a cover version of the album called "The Other Side of Abbey Road". Later in 1969 Booker T. & the M.G.'s recorded "McLemore Avenue" (the location of Stax Records) which covered the "Abbey Road" songs and had a similar cover photo. Additionally, several artists have covered some or all of the side-B medley, including Phil Collins (for the Martin/Beatles tribute album "In My Life"), The String Cheese Incident, Transatlantic and Tenacious D (who performed the medley with Phish keyboardist Page McConnell).
Abbey Road | Cover versions
A year after "The Beatles at Abbey Road", the songs that had been unearthed for the presentation were remixed for a planned album, titled "Sessions". The former Beatles initiated legal proceedings to prevent EMI from issuing the album, however, saying that the work was substandard. "Sessions" was scheduled for release in November 1984, but the release was cancelled.
The Beatles at Abbey Road | Introduction
The album's cover is a parody of the cover for The Beatles album "Abbey Road", showing Mr. Horse (in place of John Lennon), Muddy Mudskipper (in place of Ringo Starr), Stimpy (in place of Paul McCartney), and Ren (in place of George Harrison) walking across the street.
You Eediot! | Introduction
"Flower" was released as the first single from the album. The song was originally penned for Minogue's tenth studio album, "X", but was not added. The song received favourable reviews from music critics. It reached the top forty in Belgium (both Wallonia and Flanders) but remained outside the top fifty in the Netherlands. The song was ineligible to chart in the United Kingdom until the release of "The Abbey Road Sessions", where it only peaked at ninety-six for a sole week on the charts. "On a Night Like This" was released as the second single from the album. The song was originally a single taken from Minogue's seventh studio album, "Light Years".
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Singles
The two sections together ran to nearly eight minutes, making it the Beatles' second-longest released track. Lennon used Harrison's Moog synthesizer with a white noise setting to create a "wind" effect that was overdubbed on the second half of the track. During the final edit, Lennon told Emerick to "cut it right there" at 7 minutes and 44 seconds, creating a sudden, jarring silence that concludes the first side of "Abbey Road" (the recording tape would have run out within 20 seconds as it was). The final mixing and editing of the track occurred on 20 August 1969, the last day all four Beatles were together in the studio.
Abbey Road | "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
However, MacDonald doubts this, given that the backing track, recorded on 6 May at Olympic Studios, predated the worst altercations between Klein and McCartney. The track is a suite of varying styles, ranging from a piano-led ballad at the start to arpeggiated guitars at the end. Both Harrison and Lennon provided guitar solos with Lennon playing the solos at the end of the track. This song transitions into Lennon's "Sun King" which, like "Because", showcases Lennon, McCartney and Harrison's triple-tracked harmonies. Following it are Lennon's "Mean Mr. Mustard" (written during the Beatles' 1968 trip to India) and "Polythene Pam". These in turn are followed by four McCartney songs, "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (written after a fan entered McCartney's residence via his bathroom window), "Golden Slumbers" (based on Thomas Dekker's 17th-century poem set to new music), "Carry That Weight" (reprising elements from "You Never Give Me Your Money", and featuring chorus vocals from all four Beatles), and closing with "The End".
Abbey Road | Medley
Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, had become a permanent presence at Beatles' recordings and clashed with other members. Halfway through recording in June, Lennon and Ono were involved in a car accident. A doctor told Ono to rest in bed, so Lennon had one installed in the studio so she could observe the recording process from there. During the sessions, Lennon expressed a desire to have all of his songs on one side of the album, and McCartney's on the other. The album's two halves represented a compromise: Lennon wanted a traditional release with distinct and unrelated songs while McCartney and Martin wanted to continue their thematic approach from "Sgt.
Abbey Road | Recording history
"Abbey Road" initially received mixed reviews from music critics, who criticised the production's artificial sounds and viewed its music as inauthentic. William Mann of "The Times" said that the album will "be called gimmicky by people who want a record to sound exactly like a live performance", although he considered it to be "teem[ing] with musical invention" and added: "Nice as Come Together and Harrison's Something are – they are minor pleasures in the context of the whole disc … Side Two is marvellous …" Ed Ward of "Rolling Stone" called the album "complicated instead of complex" and felt that the Moog synthesizer "disembodies and artificializes" the band's sound, adding that they "create a sound that could not possibly exist outside the studio".
Abbey Road | Contemporary
Abbey Load is the third studio album from Beatallica. It was released on 16 April 2013. It is the band's first studio album in over four years, since "Masterful Mystery Tour" was released in late 2009. The album's title was announced on 12 March 2013. Unlike the other Beatallica albums, the songs on this album have the original lyrics written by the Beatles, due to an imposition at Sony Music, the distributor of their label Oglio and owner of the Beatles' catalogue through Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Before, the lyrics were parodies such as "Mean Mr. Mustaine". Its title is a reference to the Beatles' album "Abbey Road" and Metallica's album "Load".
Abbey Load | Introduction
The Abbey Road Sessions is a 2011 studio album by Ian Shaw.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Ian Shaw album) | Introduction
The Beatles did little promotion of "Abbey Road" directly, and no public announcement was made of the band's split until McCartney announced he was leaving the group in April 1970. By this time, the "Get Back" project (by now retitled "Let It Be") had been re-examined, with overdubs and mixing sessions continuing into 1970. Therefore, "Let It Be" became the last album to be finished and released by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before "Abbey Road". "Abbey Road" sold four million copies in its first two months of release. In the UK, the album debuted at number one, where it remained for 11 weeks before being displaced for one week by the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed".
Abbey Road | Release
"The Abbey Road Sessions" debuted at two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 37,556 copies in its first week. The following week, the album slipped to number seven on sales of 17,395 copies. It was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 16 November 2012, denoting shipments in excess of 100,000 copies. The album entered at number seven on the Australian Albums Chart and number three on the Australia Artist Albums Chart. However, the album slipped out the top forty in its third week at forty-four. The album entered at thirty-nine on the New Zealand Albums Chart, but slipped off the chart the next week.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Commercial performance
Side two contains a 16-minute medley of eight short songs, recorded over July and August and blended into a suite by McCartney and Martin. Some songs were written (and originally recorded in demo form) during sessions for the White Album and "Get Back" / "Let It Be", which later appeared on "Anthology 3". While the idea for the medley was McCartney's, Martin claims credit for some structure, adding he "wanted to get John and Paul to think more seriously about their music". The first track recorded for the medley was the opening number, "You Never Give Me Your Money". McCartney has claimed that the band's dispute over Allen Klein and what McCartney viewed as Klein's empty promises were the inspiration for the song's lyrics.
Abbey Road | Medley
Abbey Road is a thoroughfare in the borough of Camden and the City of Westminster in London, running roughly northwest to southeast through St. John's Wood, near Lord's Cricket Ground. It is part of the road B507. This road is best known for the Abbey Road Studios and for featuring on the cover of the Beatles' 1969 album of the same name.
Abbey Road, London | Introduction
The album was recorded on 20 June 2013 by instant delivery company Abbey Road Studios Live Here Now. Fans were able to purchase the CD at the show and pick it up directly after the show finished. The CD was available through KT Tunstall's online store, the Abbey Road Live Here Now online store and at her live shows.
Live Islington Assembly Hall | Release
Longtime roadie Mal Evans played the anvil sound in the chorus. This track also makes use of Harrison's Moog synthesizer, played by McCartney.
Abbey Road | "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
George Martin notes that on "Because": The main recording session for "Because" was on 1 August 1969, with vocal overdubs on 4 August, and a double-tracked Moog synthesiser overdub by Harrison on 5 August. As a result, this was the last song on the album to be committed to tape, although there were still overdubs for other incomplete songs. This approach took extensive rehearsal, and more than five hours of extremely focused recording, to capture correctly. McCartney and Harrison both said it was their favourite track on "Abbey Road". "They knew they were doing something special," said engineer Geoff Emerick, "and they were determined to get it right." A remixed version of the song, with the instrumentation removed so as to highlight the three-part harmony by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, was released on 1996's "Anthology 3" and, in a different remix, on 2006's "Love".
Because (Beatles song) | Recording
The album features recordings from Abbey Road Studios of some of Lynn's biggest chart hits, such as "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover" alongside other standards that originate from her A- and B-side singles and original studio albums released between 1962 and 1974. Five previously unreleased recordings from Lynn are included, such as a new version of her No. 1 UK hit "My Son, My Son". The album contains two bonus tracks (tracks 22 and 23), which are unreleased songs from recording sessions made at Chappell Road Studios. Lynn selected photographs and contributed a message for the release.
Her Greatest from Abbey Road | Overview
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Don Bodin | Introduction
This is a chronological list of recordings made at Abbey Road Studios.
List of recordings made at Abbey Road Studios | Introduction
The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, with many finding the recordings her best vocal delivery to date, while some dismissed her transition to orchestral music. Upon its release, the album received generally modest success worldwide, entering the top forty in countries including Minogue's native Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, France and New Zealand. The album peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, where it received a certification. Minogue then went on to promote the album with live performances.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Introduction
A settlement was reached in 1973 in which Lennon promised to record three songs from Levy's publishing catalogue for his next album. "Come Together" was later released as a double A-side single with "Something". In the liner notes to the compilation album "Love", Martin described the track as "a simple song but it stands out because of the sheer brilliance of the performers".
Abbey Road | "Come Together"
After the tense and unpleasant recording sessions for the proposed "Get Back" album, Paul McCartney suggested to music producer George Martin that the group get together and make an album "the way we used to do it", free of the conflict that had begun during sessions for "The Beatles" (also known as the "White Album"). Martin agreed, but on the strict condition that all the group – particularly John Lennon – allow him to produce the record in the same manner as earlier albums and that discipline would be adhered to. No one was entirely sure that the work was going to be the group's last, though George Harrison said "it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line".
Abbey Road | Background
The band then continued with overdubs on these and other songs intermittently through October and November, finishing at Abbey Road on 1 December.
Back to the Egg | October–December 1978: Abbey Road Studios
"Abbey Road" was released on 26 September 1969 with "Here Comes the Sun" sequenced as the first track on side two of the LP. In the context of the late 1960s, according to cultural commentator Steven D. Stark, the song's "promise of a new dawn after a lonely winter caught the wearied sensibility of the counterculture". The song's affirmation of life through the natural occurrence of the sun was in keeping with a contemporary trend, following examples such as "Good Morning Starshine" and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from the popular musical "Hair". In her review of "Abbey Road" for "Saturday Review" magazine, Ellen Sander said that "Here Comes the Sun" was "an awakening, an exaltation of the dawn" and the start of a collection of songs that represented "the [LP's] sun side, suffused with mellowed warmth, woven together with motifs, bridging, reprises, surprises, with all the songs set within one another".
Here Comes the Sun | Release and reception
Lennon contributed piano to the recording and while most of the part was removed, traces of it remain in the final cut, notably on the middle eight, before Harrison's guitar solo. The song was issued as a double A-side single with "Come Together" in October 1969 and topped the US charts for one week, becoming the Beatles' first number-one single that was not a Lennon–McCartney composition. It was also the first Beatles single from an album already released in the UK. Apple's Neil Aspinall filmed a promotional video, which combined separate footage of the Beatles and their wives.
Abbey Road | "Something"
Orchestral arrangements work well enough with the more expansive pop songs." He concluded, "Kylie's in warm, seductive voice. There's a touch of the nasal squeaks here and there, but that's just a hint of familiarity in an otherwise intriguing new adventure." Andy Gill of "The Independent" said the album worked out "impressively", calling it "a more traditional makeover, an attempt to give a more elegant lustre to callow pop kitsch, usually by slowing the song down and loading on strings." Jeff Katz from Idolator awarded the album four-and-a-half out of five, praising the reinvention of her collection stating "in terms of marketing, as the gorgeous orchestration sets great expectations for the album as a whole.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Critical response
Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" were used in the medley on "Abbey Road" the next year. The Lennon composition "What's the New Mary Jane" was demoed at Kinfauns and recorded formally (by Lennon, Harrison and Ono) during the 1968 album sessions. McCartney taped demos of two compositions at Abbey Road – "Etcetera" and "The Long and Winding Road" – the last of which the Beatles recorded in 1969 on "Let It Be". "The Beatles" versions of "Not Guilty" and "What's the New Mary Jane" and a demo of "Junk" were released on "Anthology 3". "Revolution (Take 20)", a previously uncirculated recording, surfaced in 2009 on a bootleg.
The Beatles (album) | Unreleased material
But it's an always intriguing and regularly enchanting concept which proves just how under-rated both Kylie's vocal ability and back catalogue is." Jenny Stevens of the "NME" was more scathing, awarding it three out of ten, stating that "Confide in Me" is "worthwhile in an otherwise sorry array of pop bangers left soggy on the barbecue."
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Critical response
Songs recorded, but omitted from the final album tracklist are "Unchained Melody", "Somewhere," "Queen of the House", and "the Sam Cooke Medley".
Live at London's Talk of the Town | Introduction
This piano was used by the Beatles in the recording of songs such as "Lady Madonna", "She's a Woman", "I Want to Tell You" and "Penny Lane". In addition, the band used it over the middle section of "Rocky Raccoon" and in the introduction to "With a Little Help from My Friends".
Steinway Vertegrand | Mrs Mills at Abbey Road
The first sessions for "Abbey Road" began on 22 February 1969, only three weeks after the "Get Back" sessions, in Trident Studios. There, the group recorded a backing track for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" with Billy Preston accompanying them on Hammond organ. No further group recording occurred until April because of Ringo Starr's commitments on the film "The Magic Christian". After a small amount of work that month and a session for "You Never Give Me Your Money" on 6 May, the group took an eight-week break before recommencing on 2 July. Recording continued through July and August, and the last backing track, for "Because", was taped on 1 August.
Abbey Road | Recording history
The UK release of this album also contains a track in the pregap called "New Instrumental", which plays upon rewinding from the start of "The Dance". A live version of this song also appeared as the B-side to "Take the Long Road and Walk It".
The Music (album) | Track listing
According to engineer Geoff Emerick, Lennon said it was "more of Paul's granny music" and left the session. He spent the next two weeks with Ono and did not return to the studio until the backing track for "Come Together" was laid down on 21 July. Harrison was also tired of the song, saying "we had to play it over and over again until Paul liked it. It was a real drag". Starr was more sympathetic to the song. "It was granny music", he admitted, "but we needed stuff like that on our album so other people would listen to it".
Abbey Road | "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
Elsewhere, the album generated moderate charting success. In Switzerland, the album debuted at seventeen, until slipping out the top fifty in its third week. The album did not achieve better success in Austria, only peaking at fifty-four for a sole week, becoming her least successful album in her Austrian charting discography. The album debuted at twenty-four on the French Albums Chart, but fell out the top 100 in its third week. The album debuted at nineteen on the Spanish Albums Chart, but descended the rest of the way after its final peak. The album had longer success in Belgium than other European markets, peaking at twenty-two and thirty-one on the Belgium Flanders and Belgium Wallonia charts.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Commercial performance
The Road: Part I is the fifth regular studio album from British electronic music act Unkle, released on .
The Road: Part 1 | Introduction
Many critics have since cited "Abbey Road" as the Beatles' greatest album. In a retrospective review, Nicole Pensiero of "PopMatters" called it "an amazingly cohesive piece of music, innovative and timeless". Mark Kemp of "Paste" viewed the album as being "among The Beatles' finest works, even if it foreshadows the cigarette-lighter-waving arena rock that technically skilled but critically maligned artists from Journey to Meatloaf would belabor throughout the '70s and '80s". Neil McCormick of "The Daily Telegraph" dubbed it the Beatles' "last love letter to the world" and praised its "big, modern sound", calling it "lush, rich, smooth, epic, emotional and utterly gorgeous".
Abbey Road | Retrospective
The opening chords are the same as Harrison's song “Something” which featured on The Beatles' "Abbey Road". The backing track was recorded at Olympic, with a working title of "Slush". Plant added some sensitive lyrics which matched the music, Jones added a string section played on the Mellotron, while Page played acoustic and Danelectro electric guitars in various different tunings. The song was regularly performed live, with Page using the Gibson EDS-1275. Page and Plant revived the track for their 1994–95 tour. "Over the Hills and Far Away" was written about the hippie lifestyle, including references to the "open road".
Houses of the Holy | Side one
This research unearthed more previously unknown recordings. Some of these recordings were remixed for inclusion in the 1983 multi-media tour of Abbey Road Studios, titled "The Beatles at Abbey Road". A year after the Abbey Road show, in the summer of 1984, EMI began work on a compilation album of previously unreleased material. Former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick was hired to remix and re-edit the material to a commercial standard. At the time, the album went under the in-house code name "Mary Jane" and the working titles "Boots" and "One-Two-Three-Four" before "Sessions" was settled upon.
Sessions (Beatles album) | Background
On 24 February 2012, Minogue uploaded an orchestral version of "On a Night Like This" on her official YouTube channel. It was released three months after Minogue announced a new album that focused on re-worked versions of her previous singles, commenting, "I've been at Abbey Road for about two weeks in total." The song was confirmed in September 2012 to appear on her orchestral compilation album "The Abbey Road Sessions" as the second track on the album, and was globally released on 24 October 2012. Alongside "On a Night Like This", the album was part of a commemoration of Minogue's 25th career anniversary that spanned through the entire 2012.
On a Night Like This | "The Abbey Road Sessions" version
In Britain, "Old Siam, Sir" was the album's first single, whereas "Getting Closer" was the choice in America; in both cases, "Spin It On" was the B-side. On 11 June, an album launch party took place inside Abbey Road's Studio Two, which had been blacked-out like a large frying pan, while tables carrying yellow parasols represented fried eggs sitting in the pan. Part of Chattington's "Rockestra" documentary was screened during the event, the only public airing the film received. The follow-up singles, issued in August, were "Arrow Through Me" in the US and "Getting Closer" in the UK, the latter release a double A-side with "Baby's Request".
Back to the Egg | Release
"Her Majesty" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album "Abbey Road". Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is a brief tongue-in-cheek music hall song. Although credited to the band, McCartney is the only Beatle to appear on the track. "Her Majesty" is the final cut on the album and appears 14 seconds after the previous song "The End," but was not listed on the original sleeve. As such, it is considered one of the first examples of a hidden track in rock music. The song is a music hall style number reminiscent of George Formby.
Her Majesty (song) | Introduction
The B-sides are a cover of Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet" and an acoustic version of "Sam's Town" both recorded live at Abbey Road Studios for the Channel 4 show "Live from Abbey Road", and later featured on their compilation album "Sawdust". "For Reasons Unknown" also appeared on their 2013 compilation album "Direct Hits".
For Reasons Unknown | Background
Starr made more prominent use of the tom-toms on "Abbey Road", later saying the album was "tom-tom madness ... I went nuts on the toms." "Abbey Road" was also the first and only Beatles album to be entirely recorded through a solid-state transistor mixing desk, the TG12345 Mk I, as opposed to earlier thermionic valve-based REDD desks. The TG console also allowed better support for eight-track recording, facilitating the Beatles' considerable use of overdubbing. Emerick recalls that the TG desk used to record the album had individual limiters and compressors on each audio channel and noted that the overall sound was "softer" than the earlier valve desks.
Abbey Road | Technical aspects
All individual songs (including the two- or three-song segments from the "Abbey Road" medley) are priced at $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points/200 Wii Points) and are available for download through the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the in-game Music Store on the Wii. The first album to be released as downloadable content, "Abbey Road", is priced at $16.98 (1360 Microsoft Points) as a whole. Unique to "Abbey Road", those that purchase the full album are able to play the entire medley as a single song in addition to the smaller segments offered. The download of "All You Need Is Love" was originally exclusive to Xbox 360 at launch, with the proceeds of over $200,000 donated to the charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.
List of songs in The Beatles: Rock Band | Downloadable songs track listing
J-Rocks made their mark as the first Indonesian band to have recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road studios in the United Kingdom. The recording and mixing process were performed during the five days from 12–16 October 2008. At Abbey Road studios, they were helped by Chris Butler, a renowned sound engineer. The result was their EP album, "Road to Abbey", which contained 5 songs, released in 2009. The album cover's image portrayed band members crossing Abbey Road's zebra cross, imitating the style of The Beatles in the 1969 album, "Abbey Road".
J-Rocks | Abbey Road Studios
"Here Comes the Sun" was written by Harrison in Eric Clapton's garden in Surrey during a break from stressful band business meetings. The basic track was recorded on 7 July 1969. Harrison sang lead and played acoustic guitar, McCartney provided backing vocals and played bass and Starr played the drums. Lennon was still recuperating from his car accident and did not perform on the track. Martin provided an orchestral arrangement in collaboration with Harrison, who overdubbed a Moog synthesizer part on 19 August, immediately before the final mix. Though not released as a single, the song attracted attention and critical praise.
Abbey Road | "Here Comes the Sun"
The albums were released exclusively for sale at the two performances and on the Abbey Road Studios website. Damon Albarn's long-term partner Suzi Winstanley designed the front cover.
Live at the De De De Der | Introduction
The following personnel all have writing credits on this album.
Down Drury Lane to Memory Lane | Writing credits
"Abbey Road" received high rankings in several "best albums in history" polls by critics and publications. It was voted number 8 in Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums" 3rd Edition (2000). "Time" included it in their 2006 list of the All-Time 100 Albums. In 2009, readers of "Rolling Stone" named "Abbey Road" the greatest Beatles album. In 2020, the magazine ranked the album at number 5 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", the highest Beatles record on the list; a previous version of the list from 2012 had ranked it at number 14. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Abbey Road | Retrospective
Even when the music heats up, there's a welcome calm to it all where so many improvised sessions turn fiery."
Abbey Road Quartet | Reception
McLemore Avenue is a 1970 album by Booker T. & the M.G.s, consisting entirely of mostly instrumental covers of songs from the Beatles' album "Abbey Road" (released only months earlier, in September 1969). The title and cover are an homage to the Beatles album, 926 East McLemore Avenue being the address of the Stax Studios in Memphis, as Abbey Road was for EMI Studios in London, which was soon renamed Abbey Road Studios. Booker T. Jones said, "I was in California when I heard "Abbey Road", and I thought it was incredibly courageous of The Beatles to drop their format and move out musically like they did.
McLemore Avenue | Introduction
Next year's my 25th anniversary so we’ve been recording acoustic and orchestral versions of a number of my hits". On 21 October 2012, Minogue was interviewed on the production of the sessions saying, "It's exploring other avenues – but I don't think it takes me completely away from the dancefloor, because I'm still a sucker for that [...] But I think it just rounds things up, makes things more whole and satisfies a different place in me." Before recording at Abbey Road, she had started rehearsals "somewhere cheaper". One of the songs that was recorded for the album that didn't make the final cut, "Breathe" was uploaded on Minogue's official YouTube account on 13 December 2012.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Development and recording
"The Abbey Road Sessions" were primarily based on orchestral music. The album presented a more "dark", "fragile" and personal style. "Never Too Late" was described as a "sad, tender piano torch song". "Confide in Me" was mostly identified as the album's standout track, being described as a "Moroccan reinvention that swings from intimate to intense." "Hand on Your Heart" was also a highlight, but was generally compared to Jose Gonzales's version, which he covered back in 2006. "The Loco-Motion" was compared to the original version by Little Eva, which was recorded back in the '60s and was described as "playful essence retained on a cute and rockin' [...]" For the album, Minogue requested Australian musician Nick Cave to re-record their duet single, "Where the Wild Roses Grow".
The Abbey Road Sessions (Kylie Minogue album) | Composition
Her Greatest from Abbey Road is a 2017 compilation album by English singer Vera Lynn. Released on 10 March to mark her 100th birthday, the album, produced by Parlophone and Warner Music UK, compiles Lynn's recordings from Abbey Road Studios for the first time.
Her Greatest from Abbey Road | Introduction
Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session) is a live-in-studio album by the band Therapy?. It was released by Marshall Records on 13 March 2020. The 12 tracks, all re-recordings of UK Top 40 singles originally released between 1992 and 1998, were recorded on 8 November 2019 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England. The album was released on black vinyl, translucent green vinyl and double CD. While initial pre-order physical copies carried the "Abbey Road" subtitle, following an issue raised by the studio over naming rights, re-pressings and all digital copies were retitled "Greatest Hits (2020 Versions)". The second part of the double CD release, entitled "Official Bootleg 1990–2020", features 15 live songs (one to represent each studio album in the band's discography) recorded between 1990 and 2018, compiled from the band's personal archives.
Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session) | Introduction
Many of the songs on "Open Road" ponder the negative side of industrialization and the lost peacefulness of a previous time. While Donovan had touched on this some of his previous work, "Open Road" was his first album to expound on the topic at length, though the versions recorded for the album scaled back on some of his more politically charged lyrics. The lyrics printed on the inner gatefold sleeve include some not sung on the actual record, like the first verse of "Celtic Rock": Ye sons of Britain Who once were free Ye now are slaves to factory Those who walk the path of mole Expect in time to kill thy soul The album's sole single, "Riki Tiki Tavi" (b/w "Roots of Oak," also on the album), uses the mongoose from Rudyard Kipling's story in "The Jungle Book" as a metaphor for how people wait for institutions ("i.e.: the church, i.e.: the government, i.e.: school") to exterminate social ills.
Open Road (Donovan album) | Songs
According to Mark Lewisohn, Ian MacDonald and John Winn (except where noted): However, according to the book included in the "Abbey Road" 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe release, which includes take 2 of the song, Starr was away filming "The Magic Christian" when the song was recorded. The line-up given in the book for take 2 is as follows:
Old Brown Shoe | Personnel