The Beatles - Abbey Road

The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright

     

• Jugoton - LSAP 73146 (Yugoslavia) LP
• Apple Records - SO-383 (US) LP
• Apple Records - 5C 062-04243 (Netherlands) LP
• Beloton - RGM 7115 (Belarus) LP
• Capitol Records - C1 46446 (US) LP
• BRS (2) - B 00001 (Russia) LP
• Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - MFSL 1-023 (US)
• Apple Records - SO-383 (Canada) LP
• Apple Records - 5C P062-04243 (Netherlands) LP
• Apple Records - PCS 7088 (France) LP
• Apple Records - 1C 072-04-243 (Germany) LP
• Apple Records - SO-383 (US) LP
• Capitol Records - SO-383 (US) LP
• Apple Records - 1A 064-04243 (Netherlands) LP
• Apple Records - PCSM 7088 (New Zealand) LP
• EMI Music (Sweden) - 3C 062-04243 (Sweden) LP
• Apple Records - PCS 7088 (India) LP
• Supraphon - 1 13 1016 (Czechoslovakia) LP
• Pathé Marconi EMI - 2C 062-04243 (France) LP
• Apple Records (3) - PCSO 7088 (Australia) LP
• Capitol Records - SO-383 (Canada) LP
• Apple Records - PCS 7088 (UK) LP
• Apple Records (3) - PCSO 7088 (Australia) LP
• Capitol Records - C1-46446 LP
• Apple Records - PCSO 7088 LP
• Apple Records - 2C 064 04243 LP
• EMI ITALIANA S.p.A. - 3C 062-04243 (Italy) LP
• Capitol Records - 509994 56509 18 (US) LP
• Apple Records - 1C 062-04 243 (Germany) LP
• Not On Label (The Beatles Bootlegs) - A90-00831/1-1 () LP
• Apple Records - 1A 064-04243 (Germany) LP
• Apple Records - SO-383 (US) LP
• Parlophone - 064-7 46446 1 LP
• Capitol Records - SJ-383 (US) LP
• Capitol Records - SEAX-11900 Picture Disc
• Jugoton - LPSV-P-379 (Yugoslavia) LP
• Capitol Records - SO-383 (US) LP
• Apple Records - 5C 062.04243 (Netherlands) LP

Images from Vinyl Releases of Abbey Road

Tracks

• A1)   Come Together
• A2)   Something
• A3)   Maxwell's Silver Hammer
• A4)   Oh! Darling
• A5)   Octopus's Garden
• A6)   I Want You (She's So Heavy)
• B1)   Here Comes The Sun
• B2)   Because
• B3)   You Never Give Me Your Money
• B4)   Sun King
• B5)   Mean Mr. Mustard
• B6)   Polythene Pam
• B7)   She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
• B8)   Golden Slumbers
• B9)   Carry That Weight
• B10)   The End
• B11)   Her Majesty

Track listing above is from Jugoton - LSAP 73146 (Yugoslavia) LP

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