The Beatles - Abbey Road - 1970 UK Third Pressing - Vinyl LP
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The Beatles - Abbey Road - 1970 UK Third Pressing - Vinyl LP
Cover VG+ // Media - VG - Very slight creasing on cover and some very minor clicks on the final track of the A side. A1 has one minor 1 second crackle during the intro. All in all, it’s in excellent condition given that it’s a third pressing, nearly a Near Mint!
In September 1969, The Beatles delivered the last album they recorded together. Measured in terms of its enormous popularity and boundless musical ingenuity, Abbey Road challenges the status of St. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as their greatest achievement.
A key element of the album is the quality of the harmony singing, with the comic backing vocals in ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, and the delicate choral work in ‘Sun King’. The most impressive though perhaps is heard on ‘Because’ – the vocal blend of John, Paul and George was recorded three times to create a choir of nine voices. John’s singing provides a rock master class in controlled tension, energy and commitment in the opening ‘Come Together’, and he gives another masterclass at the climax and end of side one with ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy). Another vocal highlight has to be Paul in ‘Oh! Darlin’, one of our favourite tracks from the album.
George’s composition on Abbey Road showed his writing at a creative peak, and his ‘Here Comes the Sun’ featured the newly invented Moog Synthesizer – one of the first times it was heard on a pop LP! ‘Octopus’s Garden’ was a surprise amongst the variety of styles on side one, but makes the characterisation of side two ever more poignant, starting with ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’, a medley of eight titles flowed together until ‘The End’, with the concluding couplet gaining more significance once it was clear that the LP contained The Beatles’ last recordings.
Since its release, Abbey Road has continued to grow in stature – the sheen of George Martin’s production and the group’s immaculate performances completes the decade they helped to define with a truly iconic album.
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