ABBEY ROAD, recorded in the summer of 1969, was the last album recorded by the Beatles (LET IT BE was released in 1970, but recorded in early ‘69).

After the laborious disorganisation and infighting that characterised early 1969’s LET IT BE sessions (as famously captured on film), the fractious four were willing to let George Martin take the reins and to work with him as a cohesive unit for the much more succinct production of their (and the decade’s) swan song, ABBEY ROAD. The superb performances make the album an artistic high point for all members of the group. Paul McCartney inspired the suite of songs that begins with “You Never Give Me Your Money.” Often thought of as two long medleys, the songs that fill most of the second half of ABBEY ROAD segue seamlessly into one another, but are programmed as separate CD tracks. George Harrison had his first A-side on a Beatles’ single (”Something”); John Lennon contributed a pair of heavy rockers (”Come Together” and “I Want You”); and Ringo Starr’s “Octopus’s Garden” was a favorite with children.

The biggest band in rock history sees their original catalogue digitally remastered for the first time with improved packaging, including extra rare photographs, expanded and new essays and all enhanced with a video mini-documentary on the making of each album in the Beatles own words.

Tracklisting
1. COME TOGETHER
2. SOMETHING
3. MAXWELL’S SILVER HAMMER
4. OH! DARLING
5. OCTOPUS’S GARDEN
6. I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY)
7. HERE COMES THE SUN
8. BECAUSE
9. YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
10. SUN KING
11. MEAN MR MUSTARD
12. POLYTHENE PAM
13. SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW
14. GOLDEN SLUMBERS
15. CARRY THAT WEIGHT
16. THE END
17. HER MAJESTY

Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.94) – Ranked #14 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time” – “…Superb songs cut with an attention to refined detail, then segued together with conceptual force…”

Q (6/00, p.78) – Ranked #17 in Q’s “100 Greatest British Albums” – “The last Beatles LP to be recorded…it [has] extremely well-drilled and elaborate song structures….the quick-fire 8 track medley starting with ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ and ending with ‘The End’ is unprecedented in rock…”

Down Beat (1/22/70) – 4 Stars – Very Good – “…What is it that makes the Beatles so likeable? Maybe it’s that they never seem to strain for effects yet are meticulous craftsman; that their humor, even when rather gruesome …is never offensive; that their satire is never malicious; their lyricism never maudlin, but their work still has punch and conviction…genuine musicality and poetic imagination…”