”It was a very happy record”, said producer George Martin. I guess it was happy because everybody thought it was going to be the last. Abbey Road, recorded mostly in two months during the summer of 1969, almost never got made at all. That January, the Beatles were on the verge of a breakup, exhausted and angry with one another after the disastrous sessions for the aborted Get Back LP later salvaged as Let It Be. Determined to go out with a sense of recaptured glory, the group reconvened at EMI's Abbey Road studios to make its most polished album: a collection of suburb songs cut with an attention to refined detail then segued together (especially side two) with conceptual force. George proved his long secret worth as a composer with Something and the folk- pop diamond Here Comes the Sun. And John, Paul,and George reputedly sang more three-part harmony hear than any other Beatles album. Let It Be was the group's final release but this album was it's real goodbye.
For the 8th consecutive year Abbey Road LIVE! will rock the music of the Beatles at AROTR LV & DC. Initially a tribute to the monumental "Abbey Road" album, the band has expanded its scope to include more than 100 Beatles tunes, from all eras of the Fab Four's career. The band has presented start-to-finish album performances of masterpieces such as "Abbey Road", "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band".
Tim Conley -Dave Domizi - Andrew Hammer -Michael Wegner
