Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
The perfect ending to a recording career, this LP shows a band still in its prime, capable of songwriting and recording feats others could only envy.
Abbey Road would’ve been the perfect swan song for a monumental musical career.
That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite, as they've done on side two, seems potent testimony that no, they've far from lost it, and no, they haven't stopped trying.
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