Tuesday Coffee Break: Abbey Road Cover Turns 40
Posted at 3:04 PM on August 11, 2009
by Steve Seel
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break
Jill and I thought it might be fun to bring you a special edition of the 9:30 Coffee Break today: to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' Abbey Road cover photo session - which was this past Saturday - we decided to play the complete side two medley.
Abbey Road is both Jill's and my favorite Beatles album. For me, it was the core Beatles record of my youth, thanks to my music mentor sister who put it front-and-center in my consciousness. And the Side 2 medley - comprised of a host of never-finished songs the band strung together in a kind of "get 'em all on the last record finished or not" free-for-all, is almost an accidental masterpiece because of the almost stream-of-consciousness nature of the pastiche. It's brilliant. Let's play it on the radio, we thought, since you rarely hear the whole thing all the way from "You Never Give Me Your Money" to "Her Majesty."
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