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If this has been posted elsewhere, I half apologize (it’s so good that it deserves to be posted more than once). The End deconstructed!:
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AWESOMENESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 
I was just playing ‘The End ‘ when I saw this and
*what I said above*
Don’t know if I mentioned this before, but The End is my favourite song on Abbey Road (along with Something of course). It is simply the finest ending any band could have.
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Offline Why Is “Your Majesty” The Last Song On Abbey Road , Not “The End “? It’s Been Driving Me CRAZY!!!
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Offline @RingoStarrDrums Her Majesty was originally intended to be a part of the Medley, sitting between Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam . When they put together the first rough mix of the Medley, Paul listened back to it and decided it didn’t fit, so told the engineer to cut it out and throw it away.
EMI had given that nothing was ever to be “thrown away”, and so as soon as Paul left, the engineer picked it up off the floor, added about 20 seconds of leader (blank) tape to the end of the Medley, and then stuck Her Majesty onto the tape, to ensure it was preserved.
The next day Paul had an acetate of the rough mix of the Medley cut so he could listen at leisure. The record cutter who made the acetate did an exact copy of the rough mix tape that he’d been given, including the silence and Her Majesty , assuming that was what was wanted.
When Paul listened to it later, not expecting to hear Her Majesty , he was pleasantly surprised to find it there, at the end. It amused him. He liked it. And so that was where it ended up. What you hear is exactly what was chopped out of that first rough mix of the Medley. The crashing guitar chord at the beginning is the end of Mean Mr. Mustard, the clipped ending is because part of the last note remained in the rough mix of the Medley because they were not looking to be precise, it was only a rough mix.
So, we end up with Her Majesty becoming one of the first (if not the first) hidden tracks on an album (while it is on the tracklisting now, it wasn’t at the time, no mention of it at all on the record sleeve, making it as big a surprise for listeners then as it was for Paul when he first heard it there).
The Beatles liked to capitalise on accidents, and this was one such incident.
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“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
is referred to by George in ‘I Dig Love ‘
Make love, take love, but you should give love
And try to live love, come on that’s where you should be
[This may have been posted elsewhere previously.]
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Offline I read somewhere that Ringo based the drum solo partially on the one in “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Is that true at all?
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Toxic34 said
I read somewhere that Ringo based the drum solo partially on the one in “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Is that true at all?
According to Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy, it is
It is a bit long, but I’ve always found Bushy’s “…Vida” solo pretty innovative in its employment – it functions not as a show-off moment for one instrumentalist (Bushy’s playing is quite basic, and never abandons the tempo), but as its own full movement in an extended, unified musical performance.
As for Ringo, he maintains the pulse as well, but his bit is mostly about building tension before those guitars and “Loooove you…”-s take over.
(Also, I’m just now pondering if maybe Ringo also had Mitch Mitchell (of Jimi’s Experience) in mind? “I Don’t Live Today” begins similarly, especially live when Mitch would extend the intro by a minute or so…)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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Offline A Day In The Life is the greatest conclusion to any album ever. But because the Beatles had already made that track previously, something new was needed. And The End does the job really well. It’s rocking and poignant, which makes the era feel complete perhaps in a way that A Day In The Life couldn’t. I had the guitar solo section as my ringtone for the longest time. It’s one of my favourite Beatles moments.
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5.45am
23 January 2022
Offline This is a great breakdown of the guitar parts in The End . After watching it I was able to discern the different guitars, which I never could before.
(the original video from this thread seems to be gone unfortunately, blocked by Apple)
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Offline Do you think you could compare The End as a finale to the band to the Seinfeld Finale?
Both were sources of great historical and cultural ends-of-eras. Both left off with satisfying final dialogue and substance. Both are etched into historical rankings as “#1” “Greatest Endings”.
I should think it could be.
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Offline That sounds like a good comparison; but one nagging detail remains — the fact that they chose to make Abbey Road second to last. That’s kind of a buzzkill for a final “End”.
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“one nagging detail remains — the fact that they chose to make Abbey Road second to last. That’s kind of a buzzkill for a final “End”.
Eeeeeh, except “they” didn’t chose anything – “they”, meaning in my case The Beatles, recorded “Abbey Road ” AFTER the “Let it be” sessions.
So it WAS their last album indeed and “The end”.
None of them really cared anymore about the “Get back” tapes, so John gave them to Phil Spector and he turned all their intentions for the original project – no overdubs etc. – into the opposite.
So at least for Paul this wasn’t even “his” album anymore.
Abbey Road was their final masterpiece – and you even missed the fact that “The end” is NOT the lush final song no band deserved more than The Beatles – instead there comes “Her Majesty “, a little acoustic joke song!
Which is only prove that Paul and The Beatles never took themselves as seriously as many of their fans and most of the press.
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7 November 2022
Offline I doublt The Beatles had no say in which of those two albums would be last.
To me, Her Majesty doesn’t detract from the symphonic “End” that climaxes that whole side.
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They weren’t thinking ‘Abbey Road ‘ would be the last as although they knew the break-up was coming the thought was they would eventually record together again as a band. The break-up caused a hell of a lot of damage between John and Paul which took time to heal and George and Paul had issues to resolve but they would have eventually. John’s murder ultimately destroyed any lingering chance.
And the Beatles never really planned anything, they just did.
As for the jumbled nature of ‘Abbey Road ‘ being the last recorded but not released or the ‘The End ‘ not being the last song, there are a number of jumbles in the Beatles history, but there are also really neat moments that assist eg ‘LMD’ reaching #1 in the USA meaning ‘1’ is a proper beginning to end.
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Offline Yeah, but at some point when the Rubber Soul met the road they knew — and decided — which album would be last, and they made a colossal mistake not making it Abbey Road .
Now today I find, you have changed your mind
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Offline They always knew ‘Abbey Road ‘ would be out before ‘Let It Be ‘, right from when they first starting recording ‘AR’. The point is they didn’t think ‘Let It Be ‘ would be the final end. Only time and later events brought that to pass. They weren’t sitting in Apple Headquarters planning the bands conclusion; ‘LIB ‘ only took so long as the film was getting put together as they lost interest in the material.
I think they all planned to one day return to band matters after ‘AR’, even George said they would record solo material as they had so much to get out and then get back together. They just needed some space. Klein, John quitting (tho he would have come round eventually) and Paul suing destroyed that.
And the four would have reunited in the 80’s or 90’s, life would have brought them back together, so there would have been another album after ‘Let It Be ‘. John being murdered obviously made that impossible.
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Offline I wonder if it would’ve been a one off special reunion type thing or a proper full on comeback with albums? John himself could have eventually gone either way IMO. “It was a moment in time, we can’t repeat it, but I’ll play with those guys on stage one more time” or “if we’re getting back together we may as well do it for real, and we now have something to say.”
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Offline I love The End and Abbey Road … Listening to it today (May 6, 2024) because it is 20 years since the Friends finale “The Last One”.
Abbey Road and The End is the extraordinary final episode of a popular series. It’s lead-ups Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight are nostalgia trips before a final, final, expression of creativity.
This song is the Beatles’ version of Seinfeld’s The Finale, of Friends’ The Last One, of The Big Bang Theory’s Stockholm Syndrome, of Blackadder’s Goodbyeee, of Fawlty Towers’ Basil the Rat.
Much better than a shock cancellation like Andy Griffith Show or something…
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I love The End and Abbey Road … Listening to it today (May 6, 2024) because it is 20 years since the Friends finale “The Last One”.Abbey Road and The End is the extraordinary final episode of a popular series. It’s lead-ups Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight are nostalgia trips before a final, final, expression of creativity.
This song is the Beatles’ version of Seinfeld’s The Finale, of Friends’ The Last One, of The Big Bang Theory’s Stockholm Syndrome, of Blackadder’s Goodbyeee, of Fawlty Towers’ Basil the Rat.
Much better than a shock cancellation like Andy Griffith Show or something…
Abbey Road is my favourite album and The End is my favourite song.
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The love you take is equal to the love you make
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