This is worth a look.
The Beatles’ swansong, “Abbey Road,” just hit #1 on the charts again… 50 years after its release! One major reason this album has become a cultural treasure is the beautiful “medley” heard on Side 2. But these songs and the way they were put together have a surprising history, one that we dig into in this video. (Perhaps stranger than the music’s story is John Lennon’s opinion of it…)
Thanks, bastard!
Abbey Road would have ended on that wonderful overdubbed-to-oblivion finale of She’s So Heavy had they flipped the A and B sides, but…. they certainly made the right calls on everything. I have no desire to hear a Her Majesty In The Middle mix.
The briefly shown collage image of possible influences on The Long One included the Mothers of Invention. And, – perhaps predictably – Wiki Zappa cites Freak Out! as the major inspiration for Sgt Pepper. But that’s just what Wiki Zappa would say, no?
Man, Zappa had a real love/hate thing with The Beatles, didn’t he? Makes total sense that he liked “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “I Am The Walrus,” though.