The long and winding tribute to the Beatles. Part III: from Yellow Submarine to The End (b).

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In the beginning of 1969 the Beatles were recording was was to be their last album to be released. They documented the recordings called the 'Get Back sessions', which were to become "Let it Be" the documentary, awarded an Oscar for original song score and a grammy for best original score in 1970. The lp produced by Phil Spector in his famous wall of sound approach is the only one in the whole of the Beatles career, not to be produced by George Martin. Spector's approach didn't please McCartney, and along with the rest of the disappointments in the Beatles collaboration due to constant disagreements, the album as well as the movie, represent the band inescapably heading towards the end of their artistic collaboration and the bitterness as well as sadness that the situation involved. Still, the Beatles even under such conditions managed to create beautiful, memorable songs that stood the test of time. Inviting keyboardist Billy Preston, in an attempt to create a 'less tense atmosphere' George Harrison, managed once again to bring music in the spotlight and push the differences the band members had, in the corner for a while longer. The surprising 'roof top concert' on the rof top of the Apple Corps. offices was the last live appearance of the Beatles, to the delight of the people working in nearby offices and passers-by, who were lucky to witness it, and a proof of the Beatles ability to play great music together as a live band. Paul McCartney made a new production of this lp in 2003, known as "Let it Be, naked", where he offered his approach of what the album should have sounded like.
The same year, the Beatles gathered in the studio once more, to record another album, which was to be their last. They summed up the bits and pieces of unfinished songs and recording attempts, added a few more masterpieces, got photographed crossing the street in front of Abbey Road studios, and named the album Abbey Road as a tribute to the place they made their music for the last 6 years.
The album includes what Frank Sinatra called his favourited Lennon-McCartney song and the "greatest love song of all times", which incidentally is George Harrison's 'Something'. It also includes a song Lennon wrote for Timothy Leary's campaign 'Come Together', the second song Ringo Starr ever wrote 'octopus's garden', the sunny "Here Comes the Sun', by Harrison and the masterful 'She's so heavy' by Lennon, whos' guitar solo has been imitated by rock musicians ever since. McCartney added some marvelous unfinished ideas (She came in through the bathroom window, Mean Mr. Mustard, and all four Beatles contributed to a grand ending, with a solo each and the conclusion that "the love you take is equal to the love you make".
Danai