Paul McCartney commented on the song in The Beatles Anthology saying, “'Something' was out of left field. The album's working title had been Everest - after a brand of cigarettes their engineer Geoff Emerick smoked - before the group simply chose the name of the street where their recording studio was located.Ībbey Road spent 11 weeks at Number One and featured the double A-sided single “Come Together” and “Something,” the highest-charting Beatles song written by George Harrison. Although the Let It Be album was released the next year featuring earlier unreleased tracks, Abbey Road was the last album the group recorded together. Although it is certainly far from the level of Revolver or Sergeant Pepper's, even a decent album by The Beatles’ standards will always be greater than 90% of other rock productions.It was 52 years ago Sunday (September 26th, 1969) that the Beatles' final album, Abbey Road, was released. Despite the chaotic atmosphere between The Beatles themselves coupled with the questionable choice of producer, Let It Be remains an essential recording that covers masterpieces such as the eponymous track Let it Be, the scathing, top of pop gospel Get Back, or even the beautifully folk Two of Us. Still, Spector applies this famous personal touch on only a limited number of tracks, leaving a crude, ‘live’ sound in most of the others. The inventor of the Wall of Sound, a production technique of stacking lseveral recording tracks one over the other in order to get a huge sound, puts his sound signature on every song and all of this without the blessing of their authors. Without the agreement of his clients, Allen Klein (then manager of the Fab Four) sent tapes of those sessions to producer Phil Spector. Only a month after their split, the Beatles released Let It Be on May 8, 1970, their twelfth and final album (which was actually principally recorded in January of 1969, before Abbey Road). See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Although it is certainly far from the level of Revolver or Sergeant Pepper's, even a decent album by The Beatles’ standards will always be greater than 90% of other rock productions.
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