50 YEARS OF ABBEY ROAD
September 26, 1969 GEORGE MARTIN: I was quite surprised when Paul rang me up and said, “We’re gonna make another record. Would you like to produce it?” My immediate answer was, “Only if you let me produce it the way we used to.” And he said, “We do want to do that.” I said, “John included?” He said, “Yes, honestly.” It ended up being a very happy album. GEORGE: Everybody decided that we ought to do one better album than Let It Be. JOHN: This is music, baby! When we feel like changing, fine. It’s the same with Abbey Road. Abbey Road probably pleases the critics a bit more, because we got a bit tired of just strumming along forever. We got into production again. PAUL: I think there was, in a way, a feeling that it might be our last, so let’s just show ‘em what we can do. Let’s show each other what we can do. Let’s try to have a good time doing it. RINGO: The second side is brilliant. Out of the ashes of all that madness, the last section of Abbey Road is, for me, one of the finest pieces we put together. PAUL: In ‘The End’ there were three guitar solos where John, George and I took a line each, which was something we’d never done before. And we finally got Ringo to play a drum solo, which he’d never wanted to do. And it climaxed with, “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” JOHN: It’s a very cosmic, philosophical line.
