kinmonth@null.DEC (06/28/84)
While playing trivial pursuit the other night, the question was: What was the last album that the Beatles recorded together? We all thought the answer was "Let it Be", but according to the game, the answer was "Abbey Road". What's the story? Is this some sort of trick question (maybe by the time "Let it Be" was recorded they were in seperate studio rooms and the engineers did the mixing later :-) ), or is the game just plain wrong? Bruce Kinmonth ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!null!kinmonth
keith1@hou2h.UUCP (Keith Quarles) (06/29/84)
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"Abbey Road" was the last recorded. "Let It Be" was the last
released.
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...!{ihnp4,houxm}!hou2h!keith1 Neptune, NJmauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) (06/29/84)
This is a good trivia question, but not a trick question. "Let It Be" was indeed recorded before "Abbey Road", but because of various problems, the tapes were allowed to languish. For "Abbey Road", the Beatles went back to their old producer, George Martin, and gave him enough control to get an album out in a timely fashion. Only after "Abbey Road" was out did "Let It Be" get mixed down and released. I believe "Hey Jude" was also released after "Abbey Road". Another trivia question: Who did the final mixing and production of "Let It Be"? -- _Doctor_ Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney \__Mu__/ North Carolina State University
peter@entropy.UUCP (Peter Guttorp) (06/29/84)
After the disastrous recording of Let It Be, Paul McCartney took the initiative to have George Martin produce another album, in the "old" style. Since the Let It Be tapes were only lying around (until Phil Specter came and actually put the album together), Abbey Road was released first.
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) (06/29/84)
Abbey Road is indeed the last Beatles album RECORDED. The tracks for Let It Be were recorded quite a bit earlier, and languished in the tape vaults for a while. George Martin gave up trying to turn the tapes into an album, at least in partial frustration with disagreements on mixes, added instrumentation, etc., mostly with John. Phil Spector ended up accepting the "challenge", and ended up with an album that differed quite a bit (especially on some of Paul's songs) from the original concept of "the Beatles - Live (or at least in a couple of takes)" Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611 AT&T Bell Laboratories