Tag: abbey road
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110: Octopus’s Garden
Octopus’s Garden is a song from the Beatles’ final album, Abbey Road, written by Ringo Starr (with uncredited assistance from George Harrison). Surprisingly, it was the Beatles second foray into that rarest of specialised genres the underwater fantasy children’s song* (the first being Yellow Submarine). During the tense sessions for the White Album Ringo had…
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161: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
We’ve already seen quite a few of Paul McCartney’s whimsical story songs in this ranking: Rocky Racoon and Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, from the Beatles final studio album Abbey Road is another in this category. Abbey Road is a very strong album indeed, incorporating everything the Beatles, their engineers and producer had learned since…
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192: Her Majesty
This is another fragment, just 23 seconds long. In truth its ranking in my list is just due to another failure in the underlying rating scheme, it should be really be nearer the other fragments like Maggie Mae. The story is that McCartney had intended the snippet to form part of the medley on side…