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  • I was about 16 when this abum came out. Between my 3 older sisters and me, we played it over and over for like a year. It would drive my dad crazy, but after several months he finally started to appreciate theri talent. He especailly liked "Something" (on the flip side.

  • I cry. Every time. No idea why, either, but by the time The End slows down, I'm just in tears. What a great set of solos, what a great finale to a masterful album (and career, if you don't count Let it Be).

  • Listen to 4:00 when the guitar solo starts. You will here three different guitar solos, each about 4 seconds long. Liten close, you can tell the three apart. The sharper sound is Paul McCartney's solo, then the higher pitched solo is George Harrison, and the final, fuzzy, distorted sound is John Lennon's solo. They repeat each other a few times, Paul, George, John, Paul, George, John, etc until "and in the end..." is sung. Listen close, you can hear each play their own solos, merged into one

  • 5:29 F0:00REVER

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  • My appreciation and awe was solidified after attempting to play Paul's bass runs and singing...the man was a genius at a very young age. Put his heart and soul into the music and it definitely shows! There will never be such a band in all the history of the world to come! Love the Beatles!!!

  • everytime i hear the end, i always have to rewind and listen to the guitar solo like 4 times. then i'm satisfied.

  • Oh my god...Paul's voice is just amazing. And so is his bass playing on this entire album.

    He just did absolutely fantastic on Abbey Road.

  • 3:45

  • Can someone explain to me whats so special about this picture?

  • @NMHAJA Just four blokes crossing the road to create masterpieces.

  • @NMHAJA its the GODDAMNED COVER OF THE ALBUM

  • Paul still has a great voice and has recently done the Abbey Road medley live!

  • They invented everything, even the hidden tracks!!!!

  • why does one of the best beatles songs have to be only a minute 30 seconds long?

  • Paul McCartney--a voice only matched in power by Robert Plant.

  • mccartney predicted... we re carrying justin bieber in our backs today....

  • Paul McCartney's voice is just so amazingly beautiful that it makes me cry

  • @TheJosephathome NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!

    

  • The Abbey Road medley - what a great farewell!

  • The Abbey Road medley - what a great farewell!

  • @eduarchavarria ,my friend

  • I'm carrying that weight a long time right now.

  • ahhh me asian and bad at music...tell me bad asian why this album ist better thar any other of da beatles? helppp

  • this album is one of the greatest things ever accomplished by mankind. People will still be listening to this 1,000 years from now...

  • @GameCherryDotCom For me, personally, it is the best ever. The horns and that whole part in "Carry that Weight" that bring "You Never Give Me Your Money" into the mix of the medley - that tells you that the wave of consciousness that Paul was working from at the time was something special. Plus, this medley (minus "Her Majesty) is comprised of the best phrases that, when combined, start and end a song. (I consider it to be one song.)

  • ahh this is truly epic. love the drum, guitar solo, and golden slumbers...

  • Golden Slumbers is incredible.

    One of the best songs EVER.

  • 5 morons voted this down, must be from Texico.

  • symphonies all over the world play Beatle songs-not rolling stones, or any other rock groups-ever wonder why?

  • 00:40- 00:60

  • The guitar solo in "the End" is one of the best solo's ever done in my opinion

  • @Ajhkatsumoto Which one? :)

    You know there is a drum solo (probably Ringo), and three turns of Paul's, George's and John's guitar solos.

    I think all of them are absolutely fantastic!

  • this is the best part in the album

  • lovely. the end is beautiful and an amazing song. but it should have been the ending track. It's quite obviously a song you should use as a 'big finish', but then her majesty kicks in and takes away the vibe. shame, really.

  • @FretLegendSmithy I've always felt the same way, but it was The Beatles' decision. Besides, I do kind of like the way the song kind of mocks how serious all of the previous songs were with its light whimsicality. It's kind of like The Beatles were poking fun of themselves. : )

  • @FretLegendSmithy I actually think that it was great that they placed 'Her Majesty' there. They had already made a "big finish" ending on 'Sgt. Peppers...', And 'Her Majesty' just adds that humorous touch that makes The Beatles so ingenious.

  • @Isbit92 i can't argue with that. and ending a record with that noise that only dogs can hear (on the vinyl of sgt pepper) is pretty ingenious.

  • You remember when you were with the beatles and in that song The End it goes, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make?"

    Is that true?

  • @StuUngar

    I think so.

  • @perfectbabyperfect0 That was a joke. Look up The Chris Farley Show with Paul McCartney.

  • and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make

  • i hate after 5:56

  • I absolutley adore Please Please Me and Abbey Road. Those are the most enjoyable albums as a whole. They do it for me. They're brilliant and you can listen from beginning to end. Especially Abbey Road, there's no songs you wanna skip at all. I love these guys

  • @blackspace007 i dont think theres any beatles songs youd wanna skip. i love em all.

  • Such a great song, one of my all time favorite mellow songs and on probably the Beatles album I have listened to the most. Thanks for sharing

  • Only a prodigy could write these songs. Macca power.

  • @LasgalenOsten Lennon and Harrison were great too. Those three were, are, and always will be the toppermost of the poppermost.

  • @serpent918 Oh yeah, indeed, I just wrote that because these 3 tunes are Paul's but of course I can go to Come Together or Something and say the same with the others names ;)

  • Perfection, except for that weird final clunk of a note at the end of "Her Majesty". WTF?

  • @mclovin1972 "Her Majesty" opens with the final, crashing chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard", while the final note of "Her Majesty" remained buried in the mix of "Polythene Pam". This is the result of "Her Majesty" being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley. The cut in the medley was subsequently disguised with further mixing although "Her Majesty" was not touched again and still appears in its rough mix. Subsequently, it was one of the first "hidden tracks" of rock history.

  • super

  • loveyouloveyouloveyouloveyou

  • how short is her majesty?

  • @hullablah 36 seconds

  • @uniquetricks lol it was like one of those thingys like ,How Short is that dress? or how ugly is her face?!? it slike that :D thanx 4 answering inywatz tho

  • So pretty, i love how all the songs flow together :)

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  • I don't think Her Majesty is Part of the medley

  • @42aGhost it is...

  • @42aGhost

    it is, it was first going to be put more in the middle of the medley but at the last minute it was cut out and put at the end, hence the last note being missing (except in this they added the last note with enrages me lol)

  • @42aGhost it was supposed to be between mean mr mustard and polythene pam

  • What a voice McCartney had. He could sing lovely ballads with unadorned emotion and shout out rock tunes like Little Richard. He could sing the sweetest harmonies with John and George. All while playing intricate, melodious bass runs.

  • @searcherboy and he could play screaming vocals like on helter skelter :3

  • In my opinion, the best album, by the greatest band.

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  • i only give you my invitations is a typo, hate to point it out, but i was enjoying the song and seen it . they say in the song i only send you my invitations

  • always thought it said " i imagine she's a pretty nice girl ....", it's her majesty. Thanks for the correction.

  • la cancion del principio alguien es tan amable de decirme cual es

  • @OverCrissis  Golden slumber

  • @4evermj0000 mcuhas gracias es que esa pelicula la escuche en una peli por eso me trae unos recuerdos

  • @OverCrissis es Golden Slumbers

    Hare Krishna!

  • 4:59 always tingle inside, 5:29 best song ever

  • how dare they add the last note on the end! The missing note always gave me a feeling that the Beatles would never finish, that it would live on forever <3

  • bad ass music from the fab four

  • Musical genius!!

  • the beatles are the greatest rock and roll fuckin band in fuckin history

    point

  • Pauls voice on Golden Slumbers is... just... heaven.

  • @JaneFokster Agreed. Best song on the album, if not the world.

    Bite on that, Ringo!

  • @JaneFokster dont you mean, just like heaven? (Cure reference) hehe

  • Golden Slumbers. I love Paul's voice. It makes me cry..

  • Everyone say Justin Biebers better then the Beatles............. well you know those people must have sold their souls to the devil because justin bieber sucks!

  • @littlefitzy96 apart from you, I doubt anyone has ever said that!

  • @littlefitzy96 thats what my kid said about the new kids on the block 15 years ago!

    

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  • Indeed; the most perfect, beautiful album ever.

  • This part of the album is so good, it makes me want to cry.

  • I'm just not sure about a thing... How can already exist people that dislike Beatles, or at least this album?

  • It's amazing how 4 men can make such wonderful music. Beatles 4 Ever!

  • Sleep pretty darlin' do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby :)

    I love that line :D

  • mccartney at his best...

  • YOu never give me your money was about them not getting a raise-which is why paul sold beatles song rights to mj for more money but mj rippedh im off-You've go to carry that weight-about the heavy atmoshphere in Apple Corps. The End- based on how shakespeare would always end his plays with a rhyme and thats how u would know(love you make is equal to the love you take) Her Majesty was to surprise the fans cuz it wasnt written on the album and was after the end

  • I don't care what anyone else says; Abbey Road is the Beatles' best album and my all-time favorite.

  • Justin Bieber is finally releasing his long-awaited CD of Beatles covers from the Abbey Road album. Critics, including Sir George Martin, proclaim it is an improvement on the original Beatles tunes!

  • @JustinBieberKicksAss I THOUGHT YOU WERE SERIOUS

  • @JustinBieberKicksAss Too bad the12 year old girls that follow bieber don't know who the beatles are.

  • @JustinBieberKicksAss troll bate people

  • @JustinBieberKicksAss Right ... Justin Beiber doesn't even deserve to be the shit on the shoes of the Beatles.

  • @JustinBieberKicksAss if george M said it its becuze rock and roll pwn christianty and bieber is christian abused by priest 1-0 for lennon

  • @TheRealSixthBeatle (from wiki)McCartney decided that the sequence did not work and the song was edited out of the medley by Abbey Road Studios tape operator John Kurlander. He was instructed by McCartney to destroy the tape, but EMI policy stated that no Beatles recording was ever to be deleted. The 14 secs of silence between The End and Her Majesty are the result of Kurlanders lead out tape added to separate the song from the rest of the recording.

  • best part of the album; the greatest ending to the beatles last album

  • looking at the level they reached with this album, can anyone else think of other artists who keep such an amazing degree of quality for so many albums? only 7 years recording in the studio but the work load was such that they did a lot in a short time. this album was my first buy deep in my heart. very, very special.

  • @beatlebum1000 True! Even if The Beatles did bad album it's still very very good. Much better than most other bands...

  • why the f did you put a chord at the end of "her majesty?" the song ends with one note, not with someone forty years later playing a (badly recorded) chord.

  • Kind of sad that the drum solo in The End was Ringos only solo w/ the beatles.

    Totally underused IMO

  • @AvYoshi Mcartney played the drum solo.so Ringo never had a solo

  • @tkamps64 Nono, that was really Ringo's. True is that it was recorded several times and some of them played Paul, but the one on the record is Ringo's.

  • The guitar solo beginning at 4:04 is the best part of The End, IMO. Except the REST of it.

  • Respond to this video... The solo in "The End" was played by george john and paul and "Her Majesty" was sung by Paul McCartney about the queen.

  • @Theboss212122 Thanks for translating the impossible lyrics of "Her Majesty", I never would have gotten it. ;)

  • I would have died to see them make this

  • Best medley followed by a great song THE END

  • Does anybody know who is singing at 0:48?

  • @elvengadordebronce McCartney.

  • @elvengadordebronce Thats Mccartney and his raspy vox.

  • @elvengadordebronce its Paul McCartney

  • Her Magesty no debió ser parte de este álbum...

  • I don't care what anyone says. Abby Road is the greatest thing the Beatles ever accomplished in my opinion.

  • "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" is some of the absolutely most beautiful music ever created.

  • Simply the best

  • The End is a short song, but has a long ending.

  • What weird transition from "Carry that Weight" to "The End".

  • They Do you never give me your money twice in the whole medley and I thought that they used Maxwells Silver hammer or the song the End bcuz in the geame its Golden Slumbers/Carry Tht Weight/The End

  • mj was a genius to buy this catalogue

  • @wishbone60619 He screwed over Paul McCartney, when he did that! Paul was the one that told him that the catalogue was about to be available and MJ outbid Paul.  I think MJ was an ass for doing it!

  • Man the greatest piece of music since Mozart's 40th.

  • Nice you nailed this on You Tube!!

  • The Beatles recorded some of the very best music in rock history and this "end " is like the hand of God was in them all . Such a shame they drifted apart , just imagine all the great music they did as solo artists recorded as the Beatles . I grew up in the 60's & 70's and everyday was new awesome music by many artists and the Beatles where the best of them all . PERIOD !

  • @Sawmill58 40 (almost 50) years later they are still the best selling, most poignant, and most loved music.

  • I don't know why, but this medley makes me cry, it's so...AMAZING

  • Love when George, John, and Ringo reply back to Paul with, "Carry That Weight," as he wanted to keep the band going, but the rest of them were done. Also, the guitar licks they shared in, "The End.". Just classic.

  • The most beautiful album ever.

  • The lines 'Sleep pretty darling, do not cry' are so easy to say, but when Paul sings it in this way it sounds so special, like no one could ever come up with these words.

    All their melodies are magical.

  • Ugh, as soon as Paul says 'do not cry' I start bawling. I am so good at taking directions, obviously.

    This is beautiful, as is the first part of the medley. Thanks a billion for posting this, impblack.

  • Note, "Her Majesty" is the same one today as then. And she was old then!

    What is she, about a thousand?

  • Oh My God Golden Slumbers is such a strong song, touches my heart everytime i hear it!!

  • @thebeatles4ever3 Its a poem I think Golden Slumbers by somebody else and not by John and Paul.

  • Este album está a la altura de un beethoven o un mozart

  • does anyone know where i can get the full version for this i can only get half the song which is really stupid

  • booooooooy you gotta carry tah weight i love this song

  • LOVE this! it makes me feel warm inside:)

  • your "you never givme your money" its a little part of "carry that way"

  • Someone changed the ENDING! it doesn't resolve. THIS IS WRONG! Her majesty doesn't have that final chord in there, and whoever edited in that last note did it pretty poorly. Boo!

  • Butchers! Lol.

  • @Magsplat I know!! i was thinkin the same thing... thats just wrong!

  • i get goosebumbps in the end lol

  • @EDEDDnricky It happens to me every time I hear that song

  • The Volkswagen talks...

  • I didn't realize this was their last album until I read Derek Taylor's book, The Love you Make, probably because it was released before Let it Be. I was devasted when they broke up, but they did release alot of albums in such a short time. Their music will live on forever! And my love for them will never wane.

  • @keaster55 I can reccomend you another book - my Holy Bible - "Revolution in the Head" by Ian MacDonald. Amazing!

  • @keaster55 The last recorded album was Abbey Road (and it's obviously done in that spirit - gradating, bit funny, more melancholic and (for me) a bit sad...

    The last issued album was Let It Be (there were difficulties with the sound and mixing, therefore it was released more than 8 months later).

    And the last recorded song was I Me Mine - already without John. On April 2, 1970.

    And in the End - on April 10, 1970 was announced by Paul that The Beatles are no more...

  • @TheRealSixthBeatle and the last time that all four Beatles were in the recording studio together was during I Want You(She's So Heavy).

  • @keaster55 not their last. just their conceptual best.

  • @cortez42 I just watched the Beatles Anthology again and according to it, this was their last album recorded. They did not like the Let It Be album, so they didn't release it until after Abbey Road. It was recorded in a not very good studio and they were video recording it with all their in-fighting. They were about to break up, but George insisted that they record one more album. And this was it.

  • Macca's voice simply RULES! i like the part when he sings : " Goooooolden slumbers fill your eyes....."

  • Beyond comparisson. Cheers.

  • this is awesome beyond belief

  • lol ringo at first didnt want to do a drum solo but after he got some new equipment for his drums he changed his mind

  • i pity people as vapid, clueless, & empty headed as all of you appear. maybe one day you'll see how utterly ignorant you sound.good luck on getting a brain, all of you. try looking for the yellow brick road & seeing the wizard, you probably believe thats real too.

  • I love how You Never Give Me My Money comes back into the medley in the middle of Carry That Weight.

  • This album is just amazing! I think the only downside is that is seems to end almost when it begins. Short but sweet:)

  • About "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make":

    "In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon acknowledged McCartney's authorship by saying, "That's Paul again ... He had a line in it, 'And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give,' which is a very cosmic, philosophical line. Which again proves that if he wants to, he can think."

    (source Wikipedia)

  • the fool on the hill was john lennon,

  • no paul was the fool he rocks

  • ok, please substantiate

  • well he did sing the song

  • but he probable ment John, who lost his marbles getting involved with Yoko (N)ono. He was never leftish untill he met this avant-gardiste who was nothing but fake. What did she ever accomplish, but blowing up the Beatles and brainwashing poor John, with his bad childhood. Poor, poor John. She drove him....mad?

  • good point but love drives many men mad

    p.s. you win

  • you're a fool