A deluxe edition of ‘Abbey Road’ lets us rediscover the Beatles’ joyous final masterpiece. Read robsheff's review
has always been an album full of mysteries. How could the world’s most beloved band make their sunniest, warmest, most charming music while they were in the middle of breaking up? How did John, Paul, George and Ringo come together to drop their all-time biggest crowd-pleaser, while gearing up to go their separate ways? The eternal mysteries ofonly get deeper as you explore the revelatory new Super Deluxe Edition, released on the album’s fiftieth anniversary.
For any other band, this situation might have tempted them into hoarding the best songs for their solo records. But the Beatles were far too competitive, too ambitious, too vain, too bloody-minded for that. They didn’t merely bring in brilliant songs—they brought brilliant Beatle songs, as if they knew they’d never get another chance to write tunes for these voices to sing. John never wrote another “Because,” just like George never wrote another “Something” or “Here Comes The Sun.
There’s a fantastic alternate version of “I Want You ” from Trident Studios in London, where the lads get interrupted by angry complaints about noise from the neighbors. John politely agrees to turn down the volume, after one last take. Then he tells the band, “Last chance to be loud!” There’s also a poignant outtake of “The Ballad of John and Yoko”—just John on guitar and Paul on drums, while the other two are out of town. John quips, “A bit faster, Ringo.
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