Vinyl L.P · Stereo · Apple Records · PCS 7088.
1969 · U.K.
Labels.
Liner notes:
Side One
COME TOGETHER
SOMETHING
MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER
OH! DARLING
OCTOPUS'S GARDEN
I WANT YOU (She's so heavy)
Side Two
HERE COMES THE SUN
BECAUSE
YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
SUN KING
MEAN MR MUSTARD
POLYTHENE PAM
SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW
GOLDEN SLUMBERS
CARRY THAT WEIGHT
THE END
Apple Records
An EMI recording. Thanks to George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Phillip McDonald
Photographs by Iain Macmillan
Printed by Garrold & Lofthouse International Ltd
John Lennon: Lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm, lead and acoustic guitars; acoustic and electric pianos, Moog synthesizer; white noise generator and sound effects; percussion.
Paul McCartney: Lead, harmony and background vocals; bass, rhythm, lead and acoustic guitars; acoustic and electric pianos, Moog synthesizer; sound effects; wind chimes, handclaps and percussion.
George Harrison: Harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; bass on (Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh Darling, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight); harmonium and Moog synthesizer; handclaps and percussion; lead vocals (Something, Here Comes the Sun).
Ringo Starr: Drums and percussion; background vocals; anvil (Maxwell's Silver Hammer); lead vocals (Octopus's Garden).
Other musicians:
George Martin: Harpsichord, organ, percussion.
Billy Preston: Hammond organ (Something, I Want You (She's So Heavy)).
Credits:
George Martin: Producer, mixed.
Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald: Engineering, mixed.
Alan Parsons: Assistant engineering.
Recorded: 22 February - 20 August 1969
Studio: EMI, Olympic & Trident, London, England, U.K.
Mike Vickers: Moog programming.
Released: 26 September, 1969.
Lyrics:
Come Together.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please.
He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me.
He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me.
He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me.
Something.
(Harrison)
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now.
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me.
Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now.
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know.
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me.
Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube
Ohh-oh-oh-oh...
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
"Can I take you out to the pictures
Joa-oa-oa-oan?"
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door...
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead.
Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant sce-e-e-ene
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing 50 times "I must not be so-o-o-oo..."
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind.
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead.
B.C. Thirty-One said "we caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh-oh-oh-oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so-o-o-oo
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind.
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head
Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead.
Oh! Darling.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm.
Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone.
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died.
Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm.
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died.
Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never let you down
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm.
Octopus's Garden.
(Starr)
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus' garden in the shade.
I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus' garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade.
We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus' garden near a cave.
We would sing and dance around
because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade.
We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
(Lies beneath the ocean waves)
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
(Happy and they're safe).
We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden with you.
I Want You (She's So Heavy).
(Lennon-McCartney)
I want you so bad it's driving me mad...
I want you...
She's so heavy...
Here Comes The Sun.
(Harrison)
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
And I say it's all right.
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right.
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right.
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
And I say it's all right
It's all right.
Because.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Because the world is round it turns me on
Because the world is round...aaaaaahhhhhh
Because the wind is high it blows my mind
Because the wind is high......aaaaaaaahhhh
Love is all, love is new
Love is all, love is you.
Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue.......aaaaaaaahhhh
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh....
You Never Give Me Your Money.
(Lennon-McCartney)
You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
and in the middle of negotiations
you break down.
I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
and in the middle of investigation
I break down.
Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Oh, that magic feeling
Nowhere to go.
One sweet dream
Pick up the bags and get in the limousine
Soon we'll be away from here
Step on the gas and wipe that tear away
One sweet dream came true today
Came true today
Came true today (yes it did).
One two three four five six seven,
All good children go to Heaven.
Sun King.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Here comes the sun king
Here comes the sun king
Everybody's laughing
Everybody's happy
Here comes the sun king.
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
Mean Mr. Mustard.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man.
His sister Pam works in a shop
She never stops, she's a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man.
Polythene Pam.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Well you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
Well you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
Yes you should see Polythene Pam.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
She's killer-diller when she's dressed to the hilt
She's the kind of a girl that makes the "News of the World"
Yes you could say she was attractively built.
Yeah yeah yeah.
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.
(Lennon-McCartney)
She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon.
Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me.
She said she'd always been a dancer
She worked at 15 clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say.
And so I quit the police department
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal but she could not rob.
Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me.
Oh yeah.
Golden Slumbers.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye.
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye.
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye.
Carry That Weight.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time.
I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitation
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down.
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time.
The End.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
Tonight?
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.
Her Majesty.
(Lennon-McCartney)
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
But she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day.
I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeh,
Someday I'm going to make her mine.
Promo:
Apple Records • Album poster, 1969.
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Apple Records • Standup display, 1969.
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Cover photograph outtakes:
By Iain Macmillan.
August 8, 1969.
Paul is walking in sandals.
Paul is walking in sandals.
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ReplyDeleteAbbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969.
It is the last album the group recorded, although Let It Be was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970. It was mostly recorded in April, July, and August 1969, and topped the record charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
A double A-side single from the album, "Something" / "Come Together", was released in October, which also topped the charts in the US.
Abbey Road incorporates styles such as rock, pop, blues, and progressive rock, and makes prominent use of the Moog synthesizer and guitar played through a Leslie speaker unit. It is also notable for having a long medley of songs on side two that have subsequently been covered as one suite by other notable artists.
The album was recorded in a more collegial atmosphere than the Get Back / Let It Be sessions earlier in the year, but there were still significant confrontations within the band, particularly over Paul McCartney's song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", and John Lennon did not perform on several tracks. By the time the album was released, Lennon had left the group, though this was not publicly announced until McCartney also quit the following year.
Although Abbey Road was an instant commercial success, it received mixed reviews upon release. Some critics found its music inauthentic and criticised the production's artificial effects. By contrast, critics today view the album as one of the Beatles' best ventures and it is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums of all time.
George Harrison's two songs on the album, "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun", have been regarded as among the best he wrote for the group.
The album's cover, featuring the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing outside of Abbey Road Studios (then officially named EMI Studios), has become one of the most famous and imitated in the history of recorded music.