The Beatles "Abbey Road" Japanese w/ obi, sealed LP OOP

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Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the Beatles Though Let It Be was the last album released before The Beatles' dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band.

Abbey Road is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time. Rolling Stone placed it at number 14 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

With the Let It Be album partly finished, the sessions for Abbey Road began in April, as "The Ballad Of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe" single was completed. 

After the album was finished and released, the Get Back/Let It Be project was re-examined. More work was done on the album, including the recording of additional music. Thus, though the bulk of Let It Be was recorded prior to Abbey Road, the latter was released first, and Abbey Road was the last album properly started by The Beatles before they disbanded.

The two album sides are quite different in character. Side one is a collection of single tracks, while side two consists of a long suite of compositions, many of them being relatively short and segued together.

Side one
"Come Together"
The album opener "Come Together" was a Lennon contribution. The chorus was inspired by a song Lennon originally wrote for Timothy Leary's campaign for Governor of California titled "Let's Get It Together".

"Something"
The second track on the album later became Harrison's first A-side single.  Harrison wrote "Something" during the The Beatles sessions.  After the lyrics were refined during the "Let It Be" sessions (tapes reveal Lennon giving Harrison some songwriting advice during its composition),   "Something" was Lennon's favourite song on the album, and McCartney considered it the best song Harrison had ever written. 

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
Maxwell's Silver Hammer", McCartney's first song on the album, was first performed by The Beatles during the Let It Be sessions.  Lennon said the song was "more of Paul's granny music", and refused to participate in the recording of the song.

"Oh! Darling"
When recording "Oh! Darling", McCartney attempted recording only once a day. He said, "When we were recording 'Oh! Darling' I came into the studios early every day for a week to sing it by myself. I wanted it to sound as though I'd been performing it on stage all week." 

“Octopus's Garden"
Ringo Starr wrote and sang one song for the album, "Octopus's Garden", his second  composition released on a Beatles album.  While Starr had the lyrics nearly pinned down, the song's melodic structure was partly written in the studio by Harrison although Harrison gave full songwriting credit to Starr.

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a combination of two different recording attempts. The first attempt occurred almost immediately after the "Let It Be" sessions. This was subsequently combined with a second version made during the "Abbey Road" sessions, when edited together ran nearly 8 minutes long, making it The Beatles' second-longest released song. Perhaps more than any other Beatles song, "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" reveals a pronounced prog-rock influence, with its unusual length and structure, repeating guitar riff, and "white noise" effects.  The final overdub session for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" would be the last time all four Beatles worked in the studio together.

Side two
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Here Comes the Sun" is Harrison's second song on the album and one of his best-known; it was written in Eric Clapton's garden while Harrison was absent from an Apple board meeting. 

"Because"
"Because" features a Moog synthesiser, played by Harrison.  Lennon said he "was lying on the sofa in our house, listening to Yoko play Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano. Suddenly, I said, 'Can you play those chords backward?' She did, and I wrote 'Because' around them.”  “Because" features three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, which were then triple-tracked to sound like nine singers.

Medley
The climax of the album is the 16-minute medley consisting of several short songs blended into a suite by McCartney and Martin. Most of these songs were written during sessions for The White Album and the Let It Be sessions.
"You Never Give Me your Money" the first song of the medley, was written by McCartney and based loosely on The Beatles' financial problems with Apple.  It slowly and quietly follows into "Sun King," "Mean Mister Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" (contributed by Lennon). These in turn are followed by four McCartney songs, "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" (written after a fan came into McCartney's residence through the bathroom window), "Golden Slumbers,"  "Carry That Weight" (featuring chorus vocals from all four Beatles), and the climax, "The End".
"The End" is notable for featuring Starr's only drum solo in The Beatles' catalogue.  The song ends with the memorable final line, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make".

"Her Majesty"
"Her Majesty" was originally part of the side two medley, appearing between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam". McCartney disliked the way the medley sounded when it included "Her Majesty", so he had the medley re-edited to remove it. However, second engineer John Kurlander had been instructed never to throw out anything, so after the group left the recording studio that day, he picked it up off the floor, spliced 14 seconds of red leader tape onto the final mix reel, and then spliced in "Her Majesty" immediately after the leader tape. The Beatles liked this effect and left it on the album.

Abbey Road became one of the most successful Beatles albums ever.    Abbey Road was certified 12x platinum by the RIAA in 2001. 

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