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Advantages: Wonderful songwriting, great harmonies Disadvantages: None
Amid all of the stories of the group breaking up, with personal relationships completely breaking down, somehow The Beatles managed to conjure up one more great album before they called it a day (Let it Be falls slightly short of great)
This is the most complete set of songs since Revolver, stripping the songs back down to their basic structure (Come Together) without all the technical trimmings of Sgt Pepper and the White Album. Harrison really comes into his own here with two of the standout tracks (Something, Here Comes the Sun) showing just what a valuable cog in the Beatles machine he really was. THe first half of the album is potential single after another, before it splits into an extended medley over the course of its second half. The album reaches its highlight with the perfect 'Golden Slumbers'(The best 90 seconds in Pop ...
Advantages: One of my favourite Beatles albums, full of life, soul and fantastic vocals Disadvantages: There isn't a big McCartney love song (we do get the next best thing though) and Ringo sings!
. After a conversation with McCartney, who promised that everyone would be on their best behaviour, George Martin agreed to return as ?the Fifth Beatle? and the band settled down to work on what would be their final album.
Throughout the 17 tracks on ?AbbeyRoad?, there is a good mixture of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison songs which you can identify as being tracks by each of the lads; John, Paul and George really had homed in on their own individual styles for ?AbbeyRoad? and where in the past I?ve mistaken George for John sometimes vocally, here this isn?t an issue. Also, there are several tracks within the first eight of ?AbbeyRoad? when you do stop and really absorb just how far the band developed musically in a matter of years ? instead of a million slushy love songs, you get tongue twisters, tales of a homicidal maniac and some dirty ...