 Abbey Road finishes with one of the great moments of the Beatles career, The Medley, a half-dozen tiny songs that swell to a triumphant conclusion in the end. Then, after 14 seconds of silence, Paul McCartney's acoustic guitar appears out of nowhere and he sings a 23-second diddy called Her Majesty. This little surprise wasn't an intentional McCartney stroke of genius, instead it was the result of a serendipitous accident. Originally, Her Majesty was meant to slot between mean Mr. Mustard and Paulithine Pam, but Paul didn't like it there, so he asked to engineer John Curlander to take it out and destroy the tape. Luckily for the world, EMI had a policy not to destroy any Beatles tapes. So instead, Curlander stuck the song at the end of the piece. It was meant to be temporary so that McCartney could hear how the new arrangement sounded, but when the playthrough ended and the transitional chord of Her Majesty rung out in surprise, McCartney loved it. He decided to keep it there, but the record sleeves had already gone to print so it was too late to put the song in the track listing, and that's how a few lucky accidents created the first hidden track in rock history.