Abbey Road Research Paper

An Ending Note “Best-selling band in the history of pop music, six Diamond albums, twenty-four multi-Platinum albums, thirty-nine Platinum albums, forty-five Gold albums, seven Grammys, fifteen Novellos, one Academy Award, ...” the list goes on and on (Weinstein). Accomplishments of this sort were no great feat for The Beatles. They were a great band to say the least, but ultimately they were regular people weathered from their years of being in the spot light. The ending of the Beatles was inevitable, they had gone trough too much as friends and as people to continue in the manner that they had in the old days of “Love Me Do”, but their final album “Abbey Road” is a testament to the greatness of this band who had achieved so much in their past. Critically acclaimed
It is in A Hard Day’s Night when the Beatles fame had seemed to hit top heights and in which they parody the ridiculous nature of such fame by way of their dry, British humor that people came to love and expect. But in Abbey Road one only sees four people completely worn from the life of a rock star, no longer filled with easy laughter and only concerned with the business aspect of their music careers. In A Hard Day’s Night the public is given four optimistic boys laughing and frolicking in open fields, but at the end of their career one can only see four individuals going their separate ways. No longer the front of a four person band, they had at the point of the release of their last record all embarked on their own careers completely separate from the shadow of the Beatles. These four men were no longer friends, no longer business partners, no longer a band. Their time was up and one can only wistfully look back upon the four hopeful faces that changed the world of music forever and remember a better