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Sep 30, 2019 • 46M

Abbey Road Rabbit Hole

 
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Kenn Richards

Ministry of 50th Anniversary Editions

Why do you need to hear the new Abbey Road? Well you just do. Good things happen when you turn 50. Giles Martin really got a handle on what needed to happen to tastefully bring this record into the streaming age. No matter what side of the listening fence you are on, you’re gonna discover new things about this record that you thought you knew so well.


If yer havin’ coffee in the ‘shwick, listening to free Pandora on the store stereo. Or, if listening to a Roon ready Lumin with isolated power and a liquid cooled Mylar 22.1 speaker array, there’s something new for everyone. From the first “shoop” to Her Majesty’s tail end.

There’s a mix up top. Getting you to the good bits with guest comments by 3 of the 4. Let’s not forget Ringo spent a lot of time in the hospital.


Even if you’re just reading about it. Here’s something(s) new.

  • You probably guessed it... no one in the band likes Maxwell’s dumb f*ing hammer. Even if it has the earliest incredible use of a Moog, it’s still crap. From a recently unearthed tape from 1969.

    John reacts by telling Paul that nobody else in the group “dug” his Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, a song they’ve just recorded for Abbey Road, and that it might be a good idea if he gave songs of that kind – which, John suggests, he probably didn’t even dig himself – to outside artists in whom he had an interest, such as Mary Hopkin, the Welsh folk singer. “I recorded it,” a drowsy Paul says, “because I liked it.”

    Paul would eventually go on to admit even while baked out of his skull that the song was lacking. At least he did in a dream week.

  • The photographer { lain Macmillan }who took this photo also took the photo for their first LP.

  • You Never Give Me Your Money is actually Paul complaining about how the legal negations in the band were going at the time. Typical George retorted with Here Comes the Sun. Gotta love the that George.

  • Mean Mr. Mustard, according to Snarky Mr Lennon originated from a newspaper story about a miserly man, John Alexander Mustard, which her read in the Daily Mirror on 7 June 1967. The article was about Mustard, a 65-year-old Scottish man whose wife was granted a divorce due to his meanness.

That's me, writing a piece of garbage. I'd read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid five-pound notes, not up his nose but somewhere else. No, it had nothing to do with cocaine.

John Lennon - All We Are Saying, David Sheff

  • What about Polythene Pam?

That was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure – this is so long – you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.

John Lennon - All We Are Saying, David Sheff

Ministry of Side Projects

Here some things the boys were up to during the Abbey Road days?

This is Paul on Drums and Bass. Look who also recycles songs Mr Fly like an Eagle …

George was playing with Delaney & Bonnie.

John & Yoko were gettin ready to Rock for Peace in Toronto. Bouns. Enjoy the Little Richard set.

And to send you off the right way. You’re Welcome!

Till next time Y’all.

Miles + Betty + A Mix

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