Once again, we get an album of mostly Lennon/McCartney material. Harrison contributes two songs, and Starkey one. Come Together kicks off the album. Basically it's a mid-tempo rocker with various words thrown together that make no sense. I Am The Walrus showed us that the band could achieve enormous success doing this, and here they do it again! Track two is the first of George's songs to appear here - Something. This is a very melodic ballad with some of the finest guitar playing in rock and roll history. As another review stated, Frank Sinatra once called this "the greatest romance song of all time." Number three is another of the band's "joke" songs, Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It's a very "happy" song, despite its content about a boy murdering two college professors and a judge. Most people don't think too highly of the joke songs, but I think this is the band's best one. Oh Darling comes next, and here the band was going for a "fifties" sound. They pull it off nicely. The next track featured here is Ringo's only featured song here. Basically it's a cheerful tune about living under the sea, almost a children's song. Despite that comment, this track is nothing short of excellent. George's second track featured on this album is the acoustic ballad, Here Comes The Sun. This is a GREAT track, arguably the finest one he ever released with the band. You Never Give Me Your Money kicks off the B-Side of the album, which contains several tracks that fade into one another. I like to call them the "Abbey Road Medley." This is a a track that starts with a slow and melodic sound, but soon becomes a rocker that is very true to the band's style. It fades into Sun King, a very weird song featuring passages in various languages. Don't worry, it's not NEARLY as weird as Revolution 9. Soon enough, it fades into Mean Mr. Mustard. Despite the fact that the track is about a mean old man, it's one of the band's most cheerful songs. It fades into a song about the title character's sister, Polythene Pam. Here the band delivers an excellent fast and frantic rocker about a woman who is "so good looking but she looks like a man." Does that make any sense at all? Oh well, it doesn't matter. The song itself is very good. It fades into yet another track, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. This is a very basic rocker, but it's an excellent one nonetheless. Eventually we reach The End (that's the name of a track.) This one kicks off with an awesome instrumental session, and soon enough becomes a brief melodic session you can't help but love. The final track is the often overlooked Her Majesty. It's just a short (twenty-three seconds) song about the queen. It's not the masterpiece the rest of the album is, but it's still a good song. Abbey Road is one of the greatest rock albums of all time, period. If you like rock and roll and you don't own this album, you're contradicting yourself.

EPILOGUE: Following the release of this album, the band finally split up, and each member went onto a solo career. Just after they split up, the Let It Be album was finally released. John Lennon proved to be an excellent solo musician, and even co-wrote a song entitled Fame for David Bowie. Sadly, he was assassinated in December of 1980 by a deranged fan. Rest in peace, John. Likewise, George Harrison obtained enormous success in his solo career. His first release as a solo artist, All Things Must Pass, demonstrated this well. He continued releasing excellent songs, and even played on Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down. Sadly, an illness clamed his life in late November of 2001. Ringo Starr also became a successful solo artist, and recently put together his All-Starr band. He still tours. Likewise, Paul McCartney ALSO became a successful solo artist, and he still tours. The Beatles may be long gone, but their spirit will always live on.

I think the interesting thing about this album is how on side one we have each of the Beatles doing more or less their own thing...

Lennon does his nonsense funk-hard rock (Come Together) his hypnotizing post-psychedelic harmony (Because) and the vastly underrated "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" which may have his simplest lyrics ever but he turns them into desperatly powerful statements with a couple great guitar and bass riffs and an amazing vocal performances that alters power and tenderness.

Harrison only pens two songs but he proves his worthiness by making them 2 of the albums 3 most famous tracks...the exquisite "Here Comes the Sun" and the famous "Something." He would continue this success with his solo debut "All Things Must Pass" which contains many songs he had written back in the Abbey Road era.

McCartney takes a back seat (relatively speaking) for side one, only throwing in the happy-go-lucky "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" which may well be one of his catchiest songs ever, the vocal-shredding a la Helter Skelter "Oh! Darling" and the quietly attractive "You Never Give Me Your Money." Certainly not the most famous of McCartney's Beatle tunes, but they are all good tracks.

Ringo is represented by his 2nd written song ever, "Octopus's Garden". In typical Ringo fashion its catchy, pleasant, and simple.

...But on side two we have the Beatles seemingly back as a cohesive unit, with their ever-famous suite of song fragments, all of them good ones, and with each Beatle doing their part. Ringo pens a rare drum solo or 2, Lennon being fun without losing his creativity in Sun King/Mean Mr Mustard/Polythene Pam, Paul proving hes no slouch either with the beautiful She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight, and "The End" bringing the Beatles together in their glory.

Only George seems to have taken a back seat on this one, but in typical Beatles fashion; he only penned 2-3 songs on any Beatles album. But he sure made the best of his chances!