ABBEY ROAD

                                                                                                                                                          

Παρατίθεται ολόκληρο, αυτό το χωρίς προηγούμενο και *δυστυχώς* χωρίς επόμενο μουσικό Έβερεστ.

 

                                           To πιο καλό μέρος της δεύτερης πλευράς,

                                           τού πιο καλού άλμπουμ που κυκλοφόρησε ποτέ...

Τrack List of the whole album:

1. Come Together - 0:00

2. Something - 4:20

3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - 7:24

4. Oh! Darling - 10:51

5. Octopus's Garden - 14:18

6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - 17:09

7. Here Comes the Sun - 24:56

8. Because - 28:02

9. You Never Give Me Your Money - 30:46

10. Sun King - 34:49

11. Mean Mr. Mustard - 37:17

12. Polythene Pam - 38:22

13. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - 39:35

14. Golden Slumbers - 41:32

15. Carry That Weight - 43:03

16. The End - 44:40

17. Her Majesty - 47:01

Πληροφορίες και κριτική

Το Abbey Road κυκλοφόρησε στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου του 1969 (δηλαδή πριν από το Let It Be, που συνετέθη λίγο πιο πριν) και περίπου ένα μήνα αργότερα, την 1^η Νοεμβρίου, έφερε τους Beatles για 13^η φορά στην κορυφή του βρετανικού πίνακα επιτυχιών.

Ήταν το τελευταίο άλμπουμ που ηχογράφησαν ως συγκρότημα και το κορυφαίο τους. Και ταυτόχρονα, και το καλλίτερο album όλων των εποχών.  

Μεταξύ των 17 τραγουδιών που περιείχε, ιστορία έγραψαν το Come Together του Τζων Λέννον, τα Something και Here Comes the Sun του Τζωρτζ Χάρισον και πολλά άλλα.

Αρχικώς, υπήρχε η σκέψη ο δίσκος να ονομαστεί Έβερεστ, με αφορμή τη μάρκα των τσιγάρων που κάπνιζε ο ηχολήπτης Τζεφ Έμερικ. Αν και τα θρυλικά Σκαθάρια φωτογραφήθηκαν για το εξώφυλλο με φόντο τα Ιμαλάια, τελικά ως τίτλος επελέγη το όνομα των στούντιο, όπου έγιναν οι ηχογραφήσεις και ο ομώνυμος δρόμος ως φόντο για την φωτογραφία του εξωφύλλου.

Ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον έχουν και τα σενάρια που αναπτύχθηκαν γύρω από τη φωτογραφία αυτή. Πολλοί την εξέλαβαν ως προάγγελο για την επίσημη ανακοίνωση του θανάτου σε ατύχημα του Πωλ ΜακΚάρτνεϊ, μία φήμη που κυκλοφορούσε έντονα την περίοδο εκείνη και φτάνει έως σήμερα. Ως σημάδια θεωρήθηκαν το γεγονός ότι ο ΜακΚάρτνεϊ είναι ο μόνος ξυπόλητος και με ανάποδο βηματισμό από τα υπόλοιπα μέλη του συγκροτήματος. Επίσης, η πινακίδα 28LF του αυτοκινήτου που διακρίνεται στο βάθος, μεταφράστηκε ως η ηλικία που θα είχε το «σκαθάρι» αν ζούσε.

Την εικόνα αυτή αντέγραψαν τα επόμενα χρόνια στους δίσκους τους πολλά άλλα συγκροτήματα, όπως οι Booker T. & the M.G.'s και οι Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Ο ίδιος ο Πωλ ΜακΚάρτνεϊ, εκμεταλλευόμενος την όλη κατάσταση, κυκλοφόρησε το Δεκέμβριο του 1993 το Paul is live, ποζάροντας μόνος για το εξώφυλλο στην Abbey Road.

Τον Ιανουάριο του 2003 η επίμαχη φωτογραφία επανήλθε στο προσκήνιο, όταν με μία διορθωτική παρέμβαση, εταιρείες εκτύπωσης αφισών των ΗΠΑ λογόκριναν το τσιγάρο του Μακάρτνεϊ, προκαλώντας την αντίδραση της δισκογραφικής εταιρείας που έχει τα δικαιώματα της εικόνας.

H βαρύτητα του δίσκου αυτού είναι τόση, ώστε έχει "διεκδικηθεί" από τις πιο ετερόκλητες ιδεολογικά κ.ά. παρατάξεις και κοινωνικές ομάδες.

Μεταξύ αυτών είναι και οι σατανιστές, οι οποίοι ισχυρίζονται ότι αν παίξεις ανάποδα τον δίσκο, ακούγονται στο βάθος σατανιστικά συνθήματα !


Από διάφορες πηγές

Abbey Road is the eleventh released studio album by the famous English rock band The Beatles and their last recorded. Though Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969.

Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was engineer, Alan Parsons was assistant engineer, and Tony Banks was tape operator.

Abbey Road is widely regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time.

Φήμες, περίεργες συμπτώσεις και παραφιλολογία:

IS PAUL McCARTNEY DEAD?

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE HE IS.....

In the fall of 1969—shortly after the release of the Beatles' Abbey Road—a rumor swept America concerning the death of Paul McCartney. While this rumor was very popular on college campuses, the widespread acceptance of this rumor reached such proportions that stories of the phenomenon were subjects of news reports and publications no less respect than the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the cover story of Life Magazine. It was the cover of Abbey Road that started it all.

On Abbey Road Album, why was McCartney barefoot and out of step? Was John Lennon dressed in white to represent a religious person? Was Ringo dressed like a mortician and George dressed as a shabby gravedigger? What about the policeman on the other side of the street? The yellow VW bug license plate that reads 28IF - Was this album cover staged? Shortly after this album was released, The Paul is dead rumors started to take off.

The hysteria of this rumor started to spread like wild fire across the country, Could McCartney really be dead? Or is this just a Paul is dead hoax? This rumor was very popular, will spend the next several pages probing some of the clues and theories behind this bizarre story. Read very carefully. You may find that sanity is not quite as easily defined as you thought. You may begin to question your own.

Around this same time frame WKNR-FM DJ Russell Gibb received a phone call from students at Eastern Michigan University who claimed that the Fab Four song Revolution 9 contained a backward message confirming the rumor. Gibb played the song backwards on his turntable, and heard "Turn me on, dead man, turn me on, dead man, and turn me on, dead man "Gibb began telling his listeners about what he called" The Great Cover-up".

To add more fuel to the fire, The Beatles never wanted to talk about the Paul is dead rumors and for years just laugh it off as crazy. Which only added to the mystery of what they were up to, had they created a bunch of Paul is dead Clues to increase record sales..

Paul is dead hoax? The most common tale is that on Wednesday, 9

November 1966 at 5 am, McCartney, while working on the Sgt. Pepper's

Lonely Hearts Club Band album, stormed out of a recording session

after an argument with the other members of the group and rode off in his

Austin-Healey, which he subsequently crashed.

The story was largely pieced together by fans from the lyrics of

several songs. The most common narrative includes the

following pieces of evidence: "He didn't notice that the lights had

changed" ("A Day in the Life") because he was busy watching the pretty

girl on the pavement (the eponymous meter maid of "Lovely Rita") after

narrowly missing her dressed in blue (she's said to be the blur on the

back of Abbey Road) jaywalking ("Blue Jay Way"). He then crashed into

a lamp-post (a car crash sound is heard in "Revolution 9" and "A Day

in the Life"). He was pronounced dead on a "Wednesday morning at 5

o'clock as the day begins" ("She's Leaving Home"), and nobody found

out this because the news was withheld: "Wednesday morning papers

didn't come" ("Lady Madonna"). A funeral procession was held days

later (as supposedly implied in the Abbey Road album cover). Adding

fuel to the legend is the ending of "Strawberry Fields Forever." Some

believed John said "I buried Paul" in a slow deep voice over the final

refrain...

According to believers, that this is not a Paul is dead hoax,

McCartney was replaced with the winner of a Paul McCartney look-alike

contest. The name of this look-alike has been recorded as William

Shears Campbell, Billy Shears (the name of the fictitious leader of

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), William Sheppard (based on the

inspiration for the song "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"), or

some combination of the names.

Then in 1979 Beatles expert Joel Gasiler and Dave Fox produce an in depth radio show called. "Is Paul Dead? Turn me on dead man". Which brought the dead rumors back to life like no other time. The radio program was one hour long and it started with Sgt. Peppers and finished with Let it Be. The show caused a fire storm because it gave clues off each album and played the songs backwards making it very easy for everyone to hear the clues. Beatles fans went nuts with this new program. Here it was all laid out before them, step by step and explained it all in great detail. Who was Billy Shears? That The Beatles sang about? Billy Shears (the name of the fictitious leader of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) and William Campbell, a winner in a Paul McCartney look a like contest in 1965. Is Paul McCartney Dead?

They under covered clues that pointed to his death and nobody had noticed or heard before. The whole Paul is dead clues started to make a lot of sense to a lot of people...