Abbey Road Medley

If these are all taken as one song, it's the greatest song of all time.

finally someone recognizes this truly is one song

It is is one of there truly great attempts at the Beatles writing a rock opera. It basically is a mixture of short idea's ( some old some new ) which John and Paul had for complete songs, but when put in this context seem to work extrordinaryly well...keeping the listeniner wondering if there is a hidden meaning to the verses or not. The entire side two of Abbey Road " IS " a Rock Opera and very well put together and should always be listened to as a complete work, not individual songs. Actually there greatest work ever, is side two of "Abbey Road".

her majesty isn't part of the medley, it's a song that was put in to trick people. The "album" ends with The End, and after a pretty longish pause the album starts back out of no where. People would then be shocked that the song was on there. The original copies did not have the song listed for that reason, but they had to put it on later copies so that DJ's wouldn't have Her Majesty pop out of no where when they just wanted to play The End.

I totally agree... the medley is utterly gorgeous. I love trying to make people try and identify when the tracks change... it's impossible. I love how Paul carries some of the major riffs all the way through, like the carry that weight tune and the "you never give me your ...." tune. It's also interesting that Ringo's only drum solo with the Beatles is on this medley, during "the end", i think. It's not very intriquite but its well done and solid, like his drumming as a whole. I think that "You Never Give Me Your Money" is the greatest song on the album, its very complex in terms of rhythm, etc. "Polythene Pam" and "Mean Mr. Mustard" are two seperate songs but John ties them together by making Pam and Mr Mustard sister and brother. "Golden Slumbers" is a wonderful song, great piano part, one of Paul's best love songs.

all the lonely people is not a song title, nor is helena rigby, though Eleanor Rigby might be a bit closer to the real thing. The Abbey Road medley is actually the second side of the Abbey Road album. The medley consists of some songs the beatles didn't find good enough to be placed on the white album or the let it be soundtrack/cd/project. Most of the concepts on the side were written by Paul McCartney with occasional help from John, and John also aded some songs of his own, like Polythene Pam and Mean Mr. Mustard, both really songs that were written during the White Album period. The medley has it's first finale during Carry That Weight and then the absolute finale of the Beatles' career follows, completing their majestic body of genious work, with the song 'The End'. It's a show-off songs because actually EVERY band member plays a solo on this song. Paul, John and George take turns in playing electric (and highly spectacular) guitar solos (actually some of the most interesting solos in the beatles' career), they switch every four bars. If you listen closely to the Anthology version of this song (on cd2 of anthology3) you will be able to hear that the guitar solos were actually much longer, because they were played over Ringo's solo (which was eventually found to be more interesting than an extensive solo) which proves to be not only Ringo's only drumsolo with the beatles ever, but also on of world's coolest and most important drumsolo's. Then the beatles coin their last genious lyric: "And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." The song ends spectacularly and after a strangely long pause there is a orchestral !bang! and then Paul plays his miniature jewel 'Her Majesty' which was originally placed between two of the medley songs, thereby explaining the orchestral !bang! at the start. The arraging genious of the Beatles is again proved with the azccidental placing of this song. It was placed here because there was no good place for it anywhere on the cd! What luck! The Beatles' Last Song of their Last Album (it was released before Let it Be but really it was their last!) is a 23 second long ditty about the queen of england. Typical Beatles.

This song is a combonation of You Never Give Me Your Money, The Sun King Medley, and The Golden Slumbers Medley, some stations play them as one big medley or three seperate songs.

I cry every time i listen to side two of Abbey Road. Anyone who spends a lot of time around me will notice that everythime "her majesty" finishes i sigh and say "the end". Because that's what it is... the end of the greatest musical conglomerate of all time.

Very, very sad time for the musical world...

sigh

One of my favorites of the beatles. I love the Sun King part... I find it interesting that they just threw together a bunch of words from foriegn languages that don't mean anything. Also, Polythene Pam I was told by an English bloke is the only song the Beatles sang in a bit of a Scouser accent... a parody he said. I don't know how I ever sang that song when I was young and had no idea what they were saying... I must have sounded so funny! Yes, hearing The End makes me sad... it was the end of an era... one I wish I could have actually been a part of...

Oh and I love Ringo's drum solo... I think he says in the anthology book that he was nervous, so he just kept keeping on beat with the bass drum... and the 3 guys doing solos... rockin!