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Abbey Road es el undécimo álbum de estudio publicado por la banda británica de rock The Beatles, considerada por muchos su obra cumbre, pues fue el último disco de estudio de la banda, editado en el año 1969. Las grabaciones de Abbey Road comenzaron en abril de 1969, haciendo de este el último álbum grabado por la banda, ya que Let It Be, lanzado en 1970, había sido grabado con anterioridad. Fue lanzado el 26 de septiembre de 1969 en el Reino Unido, y el 1 de octubre del mismo año en los Estados Unidos.

El álbum fue producido y orquestado por George Martin, con Geoff Emerick como ingeniero de grabación y Tony Banks como operador de cinta. Participó también, como asistente de grabación, Alan Parsons.

El álbum se caracterizó por la presencia de un medley en el lado B, una larga pieza de 16 minutos, que constaba de ocho canciones enlazadas una tras otra sucesivamente. El álbum destacó también por contener dos de las canciones más conocidas del guitarrista George Harrison, "Something" y "Here Comes the Sun", popularizando ésta última el uso del sintetizador (Moog) en el rock. La portada del álbum se convirtió en una de las más famosas de la historia de la música, en la cual se representaba a The Beatles cruzando un paso peatonal en el cruce de Grove End Road con la calle Abbey Road, frente a los estudios donde se grabaron casi todas sus canciones desde 1962.

Está considerado uno de los álbumes mejor elaborados por The Beatles, aunque la banda apenas funcionaba ya como un grupo unido en esa época. En 2003, ocupó el puesto n.° 14 en la lista realizada por la revista Rolling Stone de Los 500 mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos. Es uno de los seis álbumes certificados con disco de diamante de The Beatles, lo que los convierte en los máximos ganadores de este reconocimiento en la historia de la música. Los otros álbumes con disco de diamante son The Beatles/1962-1966, The Beatles/1967-1970, The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band y 1.
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At the fag end of the 60s, the Beatles produced Abbey Road, their last smoke and mirrors triumph, a musical truce that papered over cracks between the group which were, by now, unfathomably deep. It was to be a marvellous set-piece finale for the group that had defined the decade.
Although large sections of the material had been left over from as far back as their Indian sojourn in the spring of 1968, the overall sound and feel was that of a coherent and logical work, which played to every one of the foursome's considerable strengths.
John Lennon would frequently dismiss the album after its release, but Abbey Road contains three of his very finest works: Come Together, I Want You (She's So Heavy), and Because. George Harrison established himself as an individual talent of some note with the beautiful Something and the ever-lovely Here Comes the Sun, and even Ringo Starr continued to set fair his light entertainer course with Octopus's Garden.
However – the deplorable Maxwell's Silver Hammer aside – Abbey Road is primarily a triumph for Paul McCartney, preserving The Beatles' legacy on their less-than-fond farewell. Apart from being fairly low-key on the album's first side, his piecing together of their 'long medley' from leftovers and doodles on the reverse is possibly his greatest sustained achievement, culminating in every member of the group soloing on The End. Although this side is responsible for myriad crimes later committed in its name (think the worst of 10cc, ELO, Alan Parsons Project), it is a mature and intelligent coda to the single most important act British music produced.
The Beatles’ work was done. They'd come to symbolise the 60s, taken youth culture to the world, and ultimately collapsed under the responsibility, the weight they had to carry. Abbey Road is the soundtrack to it all.


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