Beatles - Abbey Road

The 1960�s were a big decade for rock music, and sprawled its presence among the world like a madman. Every high pitched voiced adolescent girl started whoring themselves out to new extremes, just to meet the bands they worshiped with paper posters on the walls of their suburban home bedrooms. Not one band was as popular among the pop-culture crowd as the Beatles, an English quartet from Liverpool, writing catchy songs about simplistic ideas, and scoring big with the world. In fact, so big, that no one has ever sold more albums than the four of them. They have remained the number one selling music artist of all time, through the present day, only slightly challenged by Led Zeppelin. And they�re release entitled �Abbey Road� just helped them further to gain that title. By now, I�m sure you all have heard the ludicrous rumors of Beatles bass player/songwriter/singer, Paul McCartney dying in a car accident early on, and being replaced with a look-alike. I�m more than sure that these rumors are just a creative myth, but there is some speculating evidence of that on Abbey Road. In addition to the previous backward tracking incidents on The White Album and Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road�s cover shows Paul as walking in front of a car, as well as the only member without shoes. It may be just some dumb myth, but it is a bit spooky, and even if it�s false, that is one very well thought out story, and some odd coincidences.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I remember the 'Paul is Dead' story as it happened. The really freaky thing is that you CAN go through the LP covers and find that there's always something different about Paul, as opposed to the other three.

RE Abbey Road; indeed a classic. Also a good use of a relatively new (at the time) instrument; the Moog Synthesizer.

And the 2nd side? There are not too many albums that consistently present a top-notch series of songs that work together. [The first side of Stevie Wonder's "Hotter then July" also qualifies].

I have listened to this album since it was first released; I can lie in bed at night and just listen to it in my head.

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