"Abbey Road" released FORTY FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY? You've got to be kidding me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The Beatles released 'Abbey Road' 44 years ago today. Read about why it is one of the best albums of all time: http://rol.st/16IHE7D What's your favorite track on the LP?

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[elleng]

1. No sh*t, Sherlock!

and Amerigo Vespucci was born March 9, 1454, in Florence, Italy!!!

[trof]

2. Yeah. I was 28.

[Boomerproud]

3. Gawd how depressing! Not the album...the 44 years ago thing.

Has Paul found a pair a shoes?

Favorite...Here Comes The Sun and the entire Side 2. Side 1 ain't bad either.

[rurallib]

5. side 2 - what a great jam

[Art_from_Ark]

6. John Lennon hated "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

It is rather silly

[cemaphonic]

16. I think they all hated "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

I remember reading somewhere that Paul was absolutely convinced that he had hit gold with that song, and was being a total pain about getting it just exactly right at a time when they were all pretty alienated from each other to begin with.

[livetohike]

4. Well that just can't be. Seems like I was just 17 not

too long ago. You know what I mean?

[Art_from_Ark]

7. "Well, she was just... seventeen

Do you know... what I mean?"

[pscot]

8. I just burned that

to my wife's scandisk.

[B Calm]

13. Damn, I thought for a second you actually threw the record into a fire.

[BKH70041]

9. Come Together

[lunamagica]

10. The "Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End medley is my favorite piece of music, ever

It still gives me chills every time I hear it

[Amerigo Vespucci]

20. The thing that amazes me about the album...

...is that chronologically it's the last album they recorded, even though "Let It Be" was the last one they released.

Given the way they just sort of grew apart and dissolved, having "Let It Be" as the last album makes sense to me. I've seen the film, I've heard the bootlegs, those biys weren't having all that much fun during the sessions.

So the fact that they put "Let It Be" behind them and came up with an album as strong as Abbey Road as their "last hurrah" is pretty amazing.

I agree with you RE: ""Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End"...it sounds just as powerful to me now as it did 4 decades agao.

[lunamagica]

23. Yes it's really amazing that they managed to put theit differences behind and create

such wonderful piece of music...art before everything

[edbermac]

11. Pretty good album

Though Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Octopus's Garden really don't do it for me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. I wasn't a fan of that stuff or songs like "O Bla Di O Bla Da"...

There IS a little bit of a myth surrounding teh Fab Four and how they never record a bad song. Actually, they did. A few of them. More classics than stinkers, but still...

[edbermac]

24. Most of the bad ones are by McCartney.

Lennon scornfully called them 'granny music', which they were.

Abbey Road is a good example. He mugs his way through Maxwell, and then he rips into Oh Darling, one of the better songs on the album. White Album too, Ob-La-Di another cutie song, and later screams like a maniac on Helter Skelter.

[Danmel]

12. I bought Abbey Road

At a record store on Utica Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, for my brother for his Bar Mitzvah. I was 9. I was so excited we listened to it so much, I had it memorized in a day.

[callous taoboy]

14. I recently attended a lecture inside Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios.

It was a dream come true. The lecture was very well done, and it covered the history of Abbey Road Studios. At one point they had volunteers play the final chord of "A Day in the Life" on the three pianos that were used on the recording: I was one of the volunteers, got to play the chord on the "Mrs. Mills" piano, the one that you hear on most of the White Album and Sgt. Peppers. Probably the highlight of my life.

[Tom Ripley]

15. Here's a friend working in there...

If he weren't such a great guy, I would hate him.

[callous taoboy]

17. That is really great stuff. Abbey Road has had

so many great artists within it's walls, as evidenced here. Thanks for sharing.

[kwassa]

18. It was twenty years ago today, that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play ...

[nomorenomore08]

19. I agree with everybody else, Side 2 of 'Abbey Road' is one of the greatest moments in pop music.

All these half-finished little ditties that would have been mostly "meh" as standalone songs, somehow come together and create this epic suite. One of the ultimate examples of the whole being greater than the parts.

[pinboy3niner]

22. I was so much older then...