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"The End" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was composed by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.It was the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles, [2] and is the final song of the medley that constitutes the majority of side two of the album.
Abbey Road was recorded on eight-track reel-to-reel tape machines [11] rather than the four-track machines that were used for earlier Beatles albums such as Sgt Pepper, and was the first Beatles album not to be issued in mono anywhere in the world. [16] The album makes prominent use of guitar played through a Leslie speaker, and of the Moog ...
[7] [8] Beatles author Ian MacDonald speculates that the guitar arpeggios at the end of the track were influenced by "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and the middle section of "Here Comes the Sun", and that the overall structure was inspired by Lennon's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from the previous year's album The Beatles, which also joined ...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.Released on 26 May 1967, [nb 1] Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music.
As eventually recorded, "Mustard" originally was to end in the chord of D major—this would have led into the next track in the climactic medley, "Her Majesty". However, since the latter song was moved to the end of the album, "Mustard" instead hard-edits into " Polythene Pam ", and thus the final note of "Mustard" would open "Her Majesty" as ...
In August 2009, at the end of its "Beatles Weekend", BBC Radio 2 announced that "She Loves You" was the Beatles' all-time best-selling single in the UK based on information compiled by the Official Charts Company. In Canada, the song was included on the album Twist and Shout. In the US, it was the final song on The Beatles' Second Album.
"Sun King" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is the second song of the album's climactic medley.
"I'll Be Back" is a song written by John Lennon, [2] [3] with some collaboration from Paul McCartney [4] (credited to Lennon–McCartney). It was recorded by the English rock band the Beatles for the soundtrack album to their film A Hard Day's Night (1964) but not used in the film.