The Beatles- Her Majesty

A rather nice, short piece written by Paul McCartney.

The Beatles- Her Majesty

The song was originally placed between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam"; 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 fourteen seconds 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.

The loud chord that occurs at the beginning of the song is the ending, as recorded, of "Mean Mr. Mustard". "Her Majesty" ends abruptly because its own final note was left at the beginning of "Polythene Pam". Paul applauded Kurlander's "surprise effect" and the track became the unintended closer to the LP. The crudely-edited beginning and end of "Her Majesty" shows that it was not meant to be included in the final mix of the album; as McCartney says in The Beatles Anthology, "Typical Beatles - an accident." Consequently, both of the original sides of vinyl closed with a song that ended very abruptly (the other being I Want You (She's So Heavy)).

The CD version also mimics the original LP version in that the CD contains a 14-second long silence immediately after "The End" before "Her Majesty" starts playing. However, if the song is jumped to from another song on the CD or played on a CD player or MP3 player in shuffle play, the song starts immediately.

At 23 seconds long, "Her Majesty" is the shortest song in the Beatles' repertoire (contrasting the same album's I Want You (She's So Heavy), their second longest). The song was not listed on the original vinyl record's sleeve as the sleeves had already been printed; subsequent pressings and the CD edition correct this. The song starts panned hard right and slowly pans to hard left.

In October 2009, MTV Networks released a downloadable version of the song (as well as the entire album) for the video game The Beatles: Rock Band that gave players the ability to play the missing last chord. Apple Corps granted this and other changes to Harmonix Music Systems, which developed the game. The alteration garnered controversy among some fans who preferred the recorded version's unresolved close. The song can be played as part of the Abbey Road Medley, coming in 14 seconds after the end of "The End", just as it does on the album.

-From Wikipedia

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[MusicIsEveryyTHING]

I always get a 100% on Rockband when I play this song on the drums. (:

[sirfacepalmthe3rd]

This song needed to last 40 years longer than it did.

[PeachTreeAlways]

There's :30 seconds of awesomeness right there.

[TwoFlyingDutchMen]

The Beatles were the best band ever, I'm only 17 so sadly I never got to see them preform..

But I'm trying to collect all their records now and I hope these songs will never be forgotten

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[Tatersdabomb]

5 people didnt listen to the whole song

[dandaily4]

@cockshield Good on ya mate!

[nerfman2227]

@FingersonFire01 Your sister should really listen to some of her favorite "singers" without autotune.

[cockshield]

@dandaily4 Correct sir! It's an anti-feminist name.

[dandaily4]

@cockshield lol, your name is cockshield.

[purplemanatee12]

@TheSTUDI069 it scared me lol

[purplemanatee12]

@TheSTUDI069 it scared me lol

[fhgjklme]

@cockshield then you should know that this song was A) recorded before "The End", and B) accidentally put on the record. The Beatles were infuriated when they found out that this song was put on the record. yeah, the end was the perfect ending, but her majesty is the perfect joke.