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Discover Bossa Down Abbey Road by The BNB, John Lennon released in 2007. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- ‘Come Together’
- ‘Something’
- ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
- ‘Oh! Darling!’
- ‘Octopus’S Garden’
- ‘I Want You (She’S So Heavy)’
- ‘Here Comes The Sun’
- ‘Because’
- ‘Medley’
McCarthur discusses whether ‘Come Together’ will be the band’s next single, unaware of what the track would later become as it arguably became The Fab Four’s most famous song. However, Lennon says he thinks it will more likely just be a B-Side to “George’s track ‘Something'”, which he calls “the best track on the album”. On ‘Come Together’, Lennon ...
As mentioned while he discussed the opening track, Lennon is full of praise for ‘Something’ and believed that would become the definitive song from Abbey Road. Lennon then disclosed why he thought the track would be a success in the States: “You know how they always get our records before there out over there in America, they must have a spy in Eng...
‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ was written by Paul McCartney rather than by Lennon or Harrison and, reflecting on the number, Lennon described it semi-scathingly as being: “It’s a typical McCartney singalong or whatever you call them.” Adding: “He did a lot of work on it but I was ill after the accident when they did most of that track and I believe he ...
The conversation between radio host McCarthur and Lennon diverts away from the track as they get caught up in a chat regarding the future of The Plastic Ono Band, a deviation that for a brief moment doesn’t deliver a song comment that is relevant to the ‘track-by-track’ analysis that they promised. However, in a 1980 interview with Playboy‘s David ...
This number was famously written by Ringo Starr and is one that the drummer also takes up the rare slot of lead vocals on. Lennon said the song is about “being at the bottom of the sea and getting away from it all.” When McCarthur mentions to Lennon that this is the only Ringotrack on the record, Lennon explains: “It’ll be a few years before his pr...
This track, which saw The Beatles adapt to new technology by using the Moog synthesizer, allowed the band to develop sonically and add another dimension to their sound. The risk paid dividends with the song being one of the standouts on the record. Lennon said this about the Moog as well as the track: “It’s pretty heavy y’know the ending because we...
Another George Harrison number which Lennon commented: “It reminds me of Buddy Hollyin a way.” McCarthur then brings up how this number is a very different kind of beast to the style that George has written in the past which Lennon agrees with. Lennon divulged: “It’s just the way he’s progressing, he’s writing all kinds of songs. Once the floodgate...
This is a track that featured prominent vocals from Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, it’s also seemingly a song which Lennon was filled with pride over at the time. He discussed what lit his creative spark to create the track, stating: “Yoko plays classical piano and she was playing one day and I don’t know what she was playing, I think it was Beeth...
The Beatles’ medley on Abbey Road was a 16-minute beautiful mess which comprised of eight different short songs which were ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’, ‘Sun King’, ‘Mean Mr Mustard’, ‘Polythene Pam’, ‘She Came In Through the Bathroom Window’, ‘Golden Slumbers’, ‘Carry That Weight’ and ‘The End’. Lennon was as honest as ever in his appraisal of t...
Oct 6, 2015 · Abbey Road (1969) John Lennon was composing some of the heaviest rock and roll in the Beatles’ catalog in 1969, and this song—true to its title—is among the most crushing, thanks to an abundance of doubled and overdubbed guitar lines that give it some serious sonic heft.
Mar 14, 2008 · Abbey Road was completed on 25 August 1969, almost a month before John Lennon told the other Beatles that he wished to leave the group. His decision was made on 12 September, just before the Plastic Ono Band performed at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, and he told the rest of the group at a meeting a week later.
- Come Together. Very much John Lennon’s song, Abbey Road’s opener started out as Let’s Get It Together, a campaign song for Timothy Leary, standing against Ronald Reagan for Governor of California.
- Something. George Harrison didn’t make many dents in Lennon and McCartney’s songwriting predominance, but when he did he made them count. First worked on during sessions for the White Album, Something – with Harrison taking double-tracked lead vocal and delivering a soaring complementary guitar solo to die for – was his masterpiece.
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer. When it comes to bones of contention between Lennon and McCartney, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is a veritable skeleton. McCartney began working on the song in early ’68, while the band were still in Rishikesh, India, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Oh! Darling. Possibly inspired by Frank Zappa’s sentimentally retrogressive doo-wop experiments on Cruising With Ruben And The Jets, McCartney similarly returned to the previous decade for Oh!
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Nov 1, 2023 · "I remember John came in with a basic framework for the song, but at first he played it a lot faster. Paul suggested slowing it down and making it more 'swampy.' John quite liked that idea. "Some weird things happened, though: Initially, Paul played the electric piano part, but John kind of looked over his shoulder and studied what he was playing.
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