Beatles Recording Sessions - “The End” on Abbey Road - 10 Things That You Didn’t Know

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[@davidbaise5137]

Hey there! Thanks for this. I stretched countless cassette tapes and busted a boombox while figuring out those round robin solos.

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[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I told my daughter about August 20th being the last time the Beatles were in the recording studio together. She thought that was pretty cool since it's her birthday.😊

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[@19trebor53]

The guitar solos are among my favorite pieces of music.

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Well presented. It’s always nice to pick up new tidbits about the lads.

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[@faustbos]

Actually got goose bumps on this one. I the story about Her Majesty, but I didnt know that side 2 was originally side one. Wouldnt that have been strange to have I want you which abruptly ends unresolved, followed by Her Majesty which does the same. I once hear the original recording of her Majesty which had a completely resolved ending. Wish I know where that was from but you know, in the old days, who knew where the bootleg recordings came. I'm sure one can find it with an search though. Great vid as always

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They say that the last note disappeared on the master as a dangling edit when the majority of the song was cut out

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Really a fantastic job on this one my dear friend. You were born if for no other reason but to make your videos. You do the Lads justice, et al (in the spirit of HM)! Lol

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Thanks for this awesome video! Wish they hadn't made that mistake of including Her Majesty.

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[@HaldaneSmith]

The other Beatles and George Martin may have begged Ringo to do a drum solo, but the presence of guitars and a tambourine on the original drum track make it sound like they tricked Ringo into doing it. The title, message, the trading off of guitar and drum solos, and the epic way it caps a dazzling medley make The End the perfect ending to the Beatles amazing career. Thanks for the great content with lots of interesting stories and facts.

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[@vinb1221]

they wanted Ringo to do a drum solo - he did not play guitar

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@@vinb1221 you are ABSOLUTELY right about THAT! Ringo knew 3 chords ( by his account)

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@@vinb1221Thanks for catching that. I meant drum solo and have fixed it.

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[@terryriley8963]

The first sessions for Abbey Road began on 22 February 1969, only weeks after the Get Back sessions. It’s just amazing for a band to shelve an album like ‘Let it Be’ which still had some classic timeless incredible songs and number 1 hits on it, no matter what people think of it, to then go and create the Abbey Road album just weeks after it. Abbey Road is my favourite album of all time and Georges guitar work on the album is just on another level, it’s so beautiful and tasteful along with Ringo’s drumming. The duelling guitar solo's are just a gift beyond words. Also George could finally be hailed by the masses as a songwriter on par with Lennon and McCartney on this album and that’s some achievement.

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Thanks for the view AND the post, Terry! Yeah - Those were turbulent times for the band, and the Abbey Road project was generally known in the background to be their last effort. They had to convince George Martin that the album would be made in the way that they made their old albums without the chaos that seemed to prevail since 1968.

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Nice vid bud. Abbey Road is a great sounding album.😀

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[@Music_is_Breathing]

I'm glad they put "The End" too, and I love having the brief "her Majesty" clip at the very end of the album.

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@@the_guitar_trooper true :)

[@bucknaked31]

@@the_guitar_trooperHer majesty wasn’t even supposed to be on the album. It was a mistake.

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@@bucknaked31 the video explains this

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

That was cool. I knew the story behind Her Majesty, and I Me Mine. I knew a bit about the history behind the three-part guitar solo but I didn't know that was the last work they ever did as a band and that John tossed yoko out while they recorded it. That makes it that much sweeter. I imagine John knew this was it and said to himself, okay, I made my point, let's do this like we used to in the old days. I actually put Her Majesty at the end of I Want You on one of my mixed Beatle CDs, minus the long pause and the opening chord and it works pretty well. The End is so fitting that having Her Majesty stuck on there is almost as bad an idea as following Yesterday with Dizzy Miss Lizzy. That move rose to the level of sound engineering malpractice in my humble opinion, almost as bad as the roller rink organ on Mr. Moonlight, but I digress. Anyway, really enjoyed that. From one Beatlemaniac to another, thanks for posting. 👍

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[@NelsonMontana1234]

On the original recording, when the piano comes in for "The End" -- it's sharp to the previous section with the guitar battle. Those sections were stuck together and they were obviously previously tuned a little flat. On the 2011 remasters, the intonation was corrected.

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[@garyp9142]

You know it be great to hear about the beatles Christmas message. That later became a LP OR a CD

[@the_guitar_trooper]

The stuff that they recorded for the fan club was interesting for its production approach as a direct connection to the fan base. I couldn’t find any other group that did such, either.

[@Music_is_Breathing]

My favorite song on this album is the whole second side 😁 I love Her Majesty being at the end.

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Yep

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Abbey Road is my favorite Beatles album. The medley is just so good.

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[@DoctorInsomnia-qw7us]

By placing her majesty 20 seconds after the end, they inadvertently invented the CD era surprise bonus track years before the CD was invented...

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[@johnjoestar4366]

My CD ver actually lists Her Majesty as a track 😂

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@@johnjoestar4366 after the audit of the master, they decided to keep it there.

[@pauls5096]

I always thought Ringo's "solo" had that Ron Bushy In-A-Godda-Da-Vida feel to it but I never knew Ringo was actually going for that. Very cool to learn.

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@@the_guitar_trooper You bet, Trooper. Love the videos, though I'm a little confused. I always read/heard Ringo didn't fancy drum solos as you stated. I believe you said they lifted his "solo" from another take in which Ringo was playing with the other instruments. I'm curious as to why Ringo would be playing/going for the Ron Bushy solo if he (Ringo) was NOT trying to lay down a solo of his own? Does that make sense? Any thoughts?

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@@pauls5096 yep. I think the bottom line is that Ringo isn’t a solo type of drummer. He keeps a good beat with good fills, and that’s pretty much the extent of it. So when they ask him to do a solo, his background track provided a framework for him to use, and he had heard Ron Bushy’s work, and it seemed to fit. And I think that’s all there was to it. IMHO

[@ceat700]

The final tracklist is like a prophecy: the end, the last song, announced the end of the Beatles, but after some silence there's more music (Her Majesty), that in sensu stricto is an outtake, sang by Paul... And so, after the Beatles broke up, they have continually released new material, a lot of outtakes (including Let It Be could be considered an outtake album), being Paul the main driver of that releases 🤯

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[@OroborusFMA]

Much of Abbey Road is characterized by what Nietzsche called "the melancholy of all things finished." And while it was probably just a coincidence after a film in the UK the theater would play "God Save the Queen" as the patrons exited. It's oddly appropriate that the final, final, track would be called "Her Majesty" (and a few years later the Queen classic A Night at the Opera would have an instrumental of God Save the Queen as the final track).

[@OroborusFMA]

John might have been coaxed into performing on I Me Mine but he was stuck in The Netherlands due to bad weather. He said he had left the group but he really didn't mean nine tenths of what he said. John, George, and Ringo extended an invitation to Paul to join them for the recording of "Early 1970" in the fall of 1970 but Paul refused, because it was also a ruse by Allen Klein to demonstrate there was still a viable partnership. As Paul was intending to go to court to get free of Klein he couldn't be seen working with the other three.

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[@daviddowns7552]

I read the chick in blue dress was a fill in pic and a great pic but wasn't taken While recording Abbey road. It was a fill in pic but nice touch.

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Good info Guitar trooper

[@the_guitar_trooper]

I hadn’t looked that up, but, if I had to guess, I would say as well that the moving pedestrian was an edit overlay. The likelihood of catching a pedestrian there, in frame, at right-hand edge, is certainly possible, but remote, unless it was a posed pic or a random frame from a rapid exposure. IMHO. And it is only that.

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Just after my tenth birthday, I cried when I heard that the Beatles had split.

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[@philhogan5623]

I consider the last half of Abbey Road to be 2 separate medleys as there is a definite gap between She Came In Through The Bathroom Window and Golden Slumbers.

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Thanks for the view, Phil! Yeah. It always struck me the same way.

[@spudpar]

Why isn’t Ringo’s drum part in "Happy Birthday" considered to be a solo.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Too simple?

[@dondevice8182]

Some sources for the rarest n details would be nice.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Depends on the artist, but quite a bit is on the web. I have books as well. Lewisohn’s ’The Complete Beatles Sessions’ is a source for some things about them. Becky Yancy’s book has some interesting stuff about Elvis. The real challenge usually isn’t finding tidbits - the hard part is separating fact from urban legend and rumors.

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[@davidhoman3807]

I’ve been drumming since 5th grade I 1965. That solo wasn’t hard, and wasn’t supposed to be. It was a blast memorizing it. And regarding Ringo’s copying from it, … I knew it!!! After all these years.

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[@doughartley3513]

Did her majesty ever comment on her majesty?

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Not as far as I know…

[@garyp9142]

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[@ALFHAKANSUNDIN]

These videos are very interesting, but the headline is foolish, a bad habit on youtube. Because you cannot know what the viewers know and not.

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It’s just a hook to generate interest. Sure, someone will already know all, others will know some. There are folks that know none of the points. My hope is that even if you know the pieces, you’ll find the delivery interesting and maybe check out other vids.

[@marksummers1700]

i consider it typical of what made mccartney annoying, that he added "her majesty" to this album... if he hadn't, the last song, on the beatles' last album, would have been "the end..." how cool would that have been...!!!!!

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[@bucknaked31]

He didn’t add it, one of the engineers that edited it out of the medley stuck it on the end. It mistakenly went to production that way. So there goes your theory. The last song was supposed to be “The End” The video explained that if you bothered to watch it.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@bucknaked31 and you’re right. And it’s in the video, too! They played back the final master of the album and decided to keep the appended “Her Majesty” on the album.