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greetings everybody this is John

Blackstone this is sort of an

off-the-cuff video which I've just

decided to do because I listened to the

Beatles Abbey Road just now probably for

the thousandth time just blew my mind

and I just wanted to talk about it while

it's still stirring my soul what can be

said about the Beatles or this

incredible album that hasn't been said a

million times before and yet every time

I listen to The Beatles I'm compelled to

tell the world how miraculous they are

and how miraculous this album is people

have asked me for years what my favorite

album is I used to bounce between

revolver and The White Album both of

which are albums I love but really Abby

rad in terms of their musicianship the

production and the arrangements the

songs it's such a remark arable album I

would use words like Majestic funky Lush

breathtaking elegant all of these words

and more Define this album Abby Road is

their final album the last album that

they recorded and I really can't think

of another final album that even touches

it it's almost as if they went into this

knowing it was their last album

including George Martin who had been

kind of frustrated with the Beatles

Because they did the the wide album

largely without him in the producer role

even though he was very much involved in

helping them make that album but it had

been quite some time since George Martin

really sat at the helm and produced a

proper Beatles album of course they had

done get back and that was also

themselves producing themselves as The

White Album was I've always felt that

this album was the Beatles knowing that

it might be their last album and they

just want to go out with a bang every

song on this album has the feel of the

greatest band in history making their

final Grand statement it feels like

every member of the band and George

Martin just pulled out all the stops

leaving the world the way that they

entered it on top something that a lot

of people have spoken about is how Abby

rad is such an incredible album

musically and instrumentally and I

really believe that the reason why all

four of the Beatles are so strong long

as musicians on this album is because

they had just spent the last month or so

doing rehearsals during the getback

sessions now anyone who knows the

Beatles history knows that the Beatles

really hadn't played a lot other than

when they went into the studio to make a

record but in the case of the get back

sessions they were playing together

almost every day don't let me

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down don't let me

down they were in fine tune as musicians

they had been jamming and working out

those songs that ended up on the Let It

Be album or the get back project and

they were all just in Peak condition as

musicians and as a band they were just

tight and I believe that that's really

reflected in ABY Road it's why this

album is so remarkable in showing their

incredible musicianship but after they

finished the get back sessions they went

right into the studio and cut the first

song that ended up on Abby Road which is

I Want You She's So Heavy Billy Preston

is on Oregon this incredible Hammond

Oregon that he plays on that track that

song I Want You She's So Heavy is just a

Powerhouse of musicianship it is a

Showcase of each one of them as a

musician and their prowess as players

and it's no mistake that that song was

added to the new blue album it wasn't

there in the original Edition but in the

new edition they've added that song

anyway after the get back sessions they

went right into recording Abby Road the

first track of which was I want you

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Ringo has been interviewed and he talks

about how he had just recently put on

calf skin drum heads on his drum kit he

loved the feel of it when he played it

he loved the sound of it and he's using

these new skins on his drum kit during

the get back sessions and he really

plays fluently and he plays a lot of

fills and on Abby Road Ringo is just at

his Peak and there's a lot of drum fills

including of the very famous One and

Only drum solo on a Beatles

track it's such a beautiful sounding

drum kit and Ringo's playing has so much

finesse and style and feel to it man

he's just incredible all of them are

incredible on this album enough foreplay

let's get

cracking so the album opens with come

together which is just such a funky

unusual track in fact I've tried to

think of another track that sounds even

remotely like Come Together by any

artist and there isn't one if you listen

to come together it's such an

interestingly sparse Arrangement it's so

simple and it opens with one of the

coolest drum fills ever recorded on any

album

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ever I used to play in a Beatles cover

band and we've auditioned countless

drummers and we always used to use come

together as the test to see if the

drummer could play it there's a lot of

drummers that can play it I've never

found a drummer that can play it and

make it sound like it sounds on that

record it's because Ringo just had this

certain finesse and this certain feel

and no one can emulate it no one there's

just this very sparse Arrangement little

bit of guitar this very swampy cool

slippery basine that Paul

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plays John sings it with so much style

it's one of the greatest rock vocal

tracks

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ever where are we going then never you

mind so come to other is one of the

coolest opening tracks to any album ever

and then we go into George Harrison's

Masterpiece

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something something in the Way She

Moves attracts me like no other

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lover something in the way she wo

me I don't want to leave her

now you know I believe in

how what could it be all something in

the way she What attracted me at all

just say whatever comes into your head

each time attracts me like a cifl until

he get the word in Frank Sinatra's last

year of Performing he used to perform

this song great song by George Harrison

of The Beatles it's one of the best love

songs I believe to be written in 50 or

100 years and it never says I love you

in the song but it really is one of the

finest I love listening to George

singing this song it's such a lovely

vocal and Paul comes in singing these

beautiful high vocal harmonies you

around

it I don't

know I no no Ringo's drumming is so

tasteful during the verses Ringo is

getting his Kick Drum and a snare most

drummers would ride the high hat or ride

the ride symbol to keep the tempo it's

very simple 1 2

3 something in the Way She Moves

Paul's Baseline is amazing he's playing

the bass almost as if it's a cello part

that's been orchestrated it's one of the

most unique and melodic and original

baselines you'll ever

hear the way she W

me I don't want to leave

now you know I believe in how

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check out Ringo's drumming on this part

it's so original these drum rolls that

are in the background combined with the

little high hat bits so cool you're

ask I don't

know I don't

know check out these beautiful little

moments of George Martin's arrangement

in

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the don't want to leave her

now you know I believe in

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how and of course this song features one

of the most beautiful elegant and

perfect guitar solos ever played on any

song certainly one of George Harrison's

most incredible guitar solos listen to

this vocal track Paul McCartney as he's

singing his background part as he's

listening to the playback he's hearing

George's guitar solo and he's already

memorized the guitar soul and he sings

along with it this is so cool check this

out

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what can be said about this track that

hasn't been said a million times it's

simply one of the most beautiful if not

the most beautiful love song that's ever

been recorded performed by the greatest

band that ever existed so the next song

is Maxwell silver hammer which is kind

of a notorious song Beatles freaks know

the story that all of the band kind of

got tired of working on this song Paul

was going for Perfection and he

certainly got

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it guar fell over Paul guar fell over

it's a very Paul song He's created

another fictional character and telling

a story and I love that about Paul

McCartney The Beatles certainly Elevate

this song to an incredible place in

terms of the instruments and the

arrangement something I really love

about Maxwell silverhammer is listening

to George Harrison playing the bass on

it when they were tracking it in the

studio Paul was on piano George was on

Basse and Ringo is on drums George just

plays a really cool Baseline check this

out

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next up is oh darling this song features

one of the greatest rock vocals in

history besides having an incredible

lead vocal this song has gorgeous

background vocals John Paul and George

singing three-part harmonies that are

just incredible when you told me

you didn't need me

anymore oh will you know I need it fell

down

and oh

darling please believe

me I never

let you

down oh believe me darling believe me

when I tell

you I'll never tell

you when they were tracking it it was

Paul on piano John is playing these very

cool guitar arpeggios throughout but one

of the standout features of this song is

Ringo's drumming it's one of the best

drum performances Ringo ever laid down

check out the what he's playing here on

this part of the song

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next up is Octopus's Garden Ringo wrote

this song It's a Wonderful Charming

Lovely song George Harrison gave him a

little help of course two times the

second time

is Garden in the shade to get to the

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G1

Paradise sh the

besides the song just being a very cute

and very Ringo is kind of song this song

strikes me as all four Beatles in the

studio together playing together and

just giving their all to make this song

totally legit these guys are just firing

on all cylinders on this track George

plays beautiful lead guitar that opens

up the song

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John is playing these very cool arpeggio

lines I'd like to

be under the sea in an Octopus's Garden

in the

shade and this song features these

beautiful backing vocals that are just

so beish very reminiscent of yellow

submarine

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we would

shout and swim about the coral that Lies

Beneath the waves benath the ocean wav

oh what joy for every girl and boy

knowing they're happy and they're safe

happy

and octopus is Garden for as silly as it

may seem it's an incred incredible

musical

performance when I was a kid there is

this comedian Steve Allen he would kind

of mock popular music and he would stand

there like he was reading a piece of

important poetry then there was this

million seller titled come

together here come old flat

top he come grooving up

slowly he got Juju Eyeball

he got Tow Jam

football he got monkey

finger he got walrus gum

boot he got oh no

sideboard he say one and one and one is

three come together right now over me

I Rush my

cake and I'll never forget that he

mocked this song and this was in 1969

when the album was first released I want

you I want you so bad I want you so bad

it's driving me mad yeah it's driving me

mad no one really remembers Steve Allen

anymore but people certainly remember

this song I love the brand new remix of

this entire album Abby Road and this

song in particular when when I first

heard the brand new remix it really

brought a new awareness of just how

brilliant it is this song includes one

of John Lenin's most blood curling

vocals I want

you you know I want you so

bad babe I want

you you know I want you so

bad it's driving me mad it's driving me

mad

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yeah the backup vocals are awesome she's

so there are still some morons in the

world that say The Beatles were

overrated as musicians whenever I

encounter people like that I don't even

bother arguing they are someone I can't

have an intelligent conversation about

music with but if you ever encounter

someone that claims that the weren't

great musicians tell them to listen to

this

track

intermission end of inition and after

this incredible crazy stunning ending we

get one of George Harrison's

masterpieces this is the most popular

download for the Beatles Here Comes the

Sun

Here Comes the

Sun Here Comes the Sun I

say the song is remarkable in every

sense of the word it is the perfect pop

song the acoustic guitar alone is to die

for it features incredible Drums by

Ringo ask any drummer to replicate

Ringo's drum part on this song and

they'll flail around like an idiot and

it's because Ringo was a singularly

unique and gifted drummer he always

served the song Perfectly he was what

people call a lyrical drummer a guy who

knew that the most important part of the

song were the words in the

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vocal it's a moo synthesizer that George

is playing and George was the one that

introduced the Moog synthesizer to the

band similar to the way he introduced

Indian music and the sitar to The

Beatles the 2019 remix that I spoke of

before brings out all of the amazing

elements of this song like never before

you can hear George Martin's beautiful

string

score little darling it's been a long

lonely

winter little darling it feels like it

since it's been

here Here Comes the

Sun Here Comes the Sun I say it's all

right I'll never forget an interview

with Keith Richard shortly after George

Harrison passed away Keith Richard said

Here Comes the son I mean come on man I

could go on for hours about this track

alone it's just a stunning Masterpiece

of a song next is because John Lennon's

song the most beautiful three-part

Harmony that they've ever recorded on

any song

because the world is round it turns me

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on

because the

world is round

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it's a gorgeous Melody it's a gorgeous

chord structure George Martin played a

part in helping them to arrange those

three-part harmonies and record them in

the studio when they were recording John

was playing the

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arpeggios George Martin played along

with those arpeggios on a Harps ACC

chord

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once again it's just a beautiful perfect

piece of music yeah and a perfect piece

of songwriting then we go into you you

never then we go into you never give

me then we go into You Never Give Me

Your Money this has always been one of

my favorite Paul McCartney compositions

this song is basically like a mini Suite

it has three four five different

sections to it it's such a beautiful

chord structure that opens the

song George comes in with these

incredible little guitar fills in

between the vocal lines you

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break and in the midle of

Investigation I break

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down out of college money spent see no

future P all the Mone is got nowhere

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J got the sack Monday morning turning

back

yellow but all that magic

feeling where to

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go it has this great instrumental break

in the

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middle one swe

dream so cool Incredible guitar who else

would end a song with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 all

good children go to heaven 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

all good children go to heav once again

just a Powerhouse in terms of the

arrangement the instrumentation it's

there's just nobody that created Music

like this other than the Beatles nobody

this is so uniquely Beatles and then

this song Fades out and we slowly go

into the beginning of Sun

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King another incredible John Lenin

composition John lenon plays this lovely

guitar while George Harrison plays these

very tasty leads over these beautiful

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vocals

come the

s

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King everybody is

laughing everybody is

happy and then John goes into this

gibberish that he sings at the end of

the song John did this a lot during the

get back sessions too he would sing

these crazy lyrics that sort of echo the

kind of stuff that he used to write in

the books that he wrote I was bored on

the 9th of October 1940 when I believe

the naties were still boom led by I'm

Adolf heum who only had one anyway they

didn't get me I attended T varica

schools in lpool and still didn't pass

much to my auntie supplies as a member

of the most fied Beatles my and PG and

our's Records might seem funnier to some

of you than this book but as far as I've

conceived this correction of short R is

the best laugh I've ever ready God help

and bed you all he very famously did it

on the rooftop during don't let me down

and re Godly blue

J

she

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yes so this song Segways into Mean Mr

Mustard another John Lenin track reminds

me of something off of the wide album

very quirky very John lenen the song has

a really interesting Baseline on it boom

boom boom

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boom then we go into polythene Pam

another crazy wonderful John lenon track

everybody had a

everybody had a good time everybody had

a wet

dream everybody saw

the and it has these incredible

three-part harmonies rolling behind the

lead

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vocal when you should see Pine pan she's

so good looking but she looks like a man

well you should see in Dr dress in a

pomine back yes you should see pomine

p yeah yeah yeah oh and then at the end

of this song there's these killer George

Harrison Lee guitar

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parts oh listen to that

now oh look out is she came in through

the bathroom window

these last few songs are little Snippets

of songs that they put together in the

studio but they worked it out and

arranged all of these songs and the way

that they segue and connect in such a

masterful way of course George Martin

played a part in doing that then we go

into Golden Slumbers which Segways into

to carry that weight and finally the end

Golden Slumbers is easily among my top

five favorite McCartney compositions

ever it's so Majestic George Martin's

orchestral score is so gorgeous on this

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song it's just one of the most emotional

and Powerful vocal performances I've

ever heard go

and

slum feel your

eyes

smilees iwake you when you

rise sleep pry darling do not

cry and I will sing a

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l so then it goes in to carry that

weight

you're going to carry that

weight carry that weight a

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long I never give you my

pillow I only send you my invitation

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and finally we get a drum solo from

Ringo not only is it tasteful and groovy

but it's also one of the most

beautifully recorded drum kits I've ever

heard and then we go into this powerful

outro love you love you love you

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and we get to this Monumental moment in

the song When Paul George and John

tradeoff guitar leads they did this live

in the studio Paul's solos are

wonderfully edgy and melodic George's

solos are stylistic and beautifully

played John's solos are aggressive and

grungy long before that word ever

appeared on the music scene it's an

amazing moment in the history of

recorded music

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[Laughter]

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and it breaks into the most beautiful

poignant lyric you could ever hope for

in the last song on the last album by

the greatest band that will ever

exist

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end

take is equal to the

love you make

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my Majesty's a pretty nice girl someday

I'm going to make a mind oh yeah going

to make

a here we are 60 years after they broke

up and this band sells as much music as

it ever did The Thirst and the hunger

for anything Beatles will never end they

were so remarkable and so oneof a kind

and what they achieved was really

miraculous The Beatles truly are a

phenomenon unto themselves I could go on

for hours about the Beatles and their

music thank you for listening I hope you

enjoyed this episode there's more coming

very soon cheers

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