The last Beatle album recorded but the penultimate release. After the shambolic, relationship deteriorating sessions of the 'Get Back' project (which turned into the 'Let It Be' album), Paul convinced the other three as well as producer George Martin to come back for one last hurrah! And what a hurrah it turned out to be! Perhaps this is The Beatle's most FLAWLESS album... SHEER PERFECTION on all levels!
Side 1 was designed to appease John that assembled a collection of great songs from 'Come Together', 'Oh! Darling', 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' and surely George's greatest gift to The Beatles... 'Something'. Throw in Ringo's finest moment as a song writer in the very clever (check out the Paul and George water bubble blowing backing vocals) Octopus' Garden and you are cooking up a red hot album!!!
Side 2 appeased Paul, the grandiose, highly ambitious 'Rock Opera' which of course Beatles being Beatles, they manage to nail it PERFECTLY!!!
What makes The Beatles a true unexplainable chemistry is the fact that both Paul's and John's respective contributions to their non-preferred album sides are the very reason this album is as perfect as it is. It also appears that on a sub-conscious level that the four Beatles put all of their current personal differences aside and just focused on being 'Beatles' and each playing their part that produces that magic 'whole' ... The Beatles.... and I don't think they could even explain it... it just happens!
Did I say that 'Something' was George's greatest gift to The Beatles??? Bloody hell, where does that leave 'Here Comes The Sun'? This song still to this day makes me feel... just .... GREAT!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
'You Never Give Me Your Money', the first song of the 'Rock Opera' is a beautiful, melancholy piece from Paul that drifts into snippets of incomplete songs / scraps that unbelievably just WORK! Check out Paul's voice on 'Golden Slumbers'... the part where he sings, 'Smiles awake you when you rise'... SHISHKER BOB!!!!! Stunningly emotive and it just makes you feel a sense of loss and hope at the same instant!!!! Like he was telling the world that The Beatle dream is coming to an end! Then the three stinging lead guitars by John, Paul and George that close 'The End' flow in to the last Beatle lyric on the last Beatle album....'and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make'... very COSMIC!!!
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