Abbey Road The Beatles Released 26 September 1969

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Abbey Road is the eleventh  by English  band , released on 26 September 1969 by . The recording sessions for the album were the last in which all four Beatles participated. Although  was the final album that the Beatles completed before the  in April 1970, most of the album had been recorded before the Abbey Road sessions began. A two-sided hit single from the album, "" backed with "", released in October, topped the  chart in the US.

Abbey Road is a rock album that incorporates genres such as , , and , and it makes prominent use of the  and the . Side two contains a  of song fragments edited together to form a single piece. The album was recorded amid a more enjoyable atmosphere than the Get Back/Let It Be sessions earlier in the year, but there were still frequent disagreements within the band.  had privately left the group by the time the album was released and McCartney publicly quit the following year.

Although Abbey Road was an immediate commercial success and reached  No. 1 in the UK and US, it initially received mixed reviews, some critics describing its music as inauthentic and bemoaning the production's artificial effects. Over time, the album became viewed as among the Beatles' best and many critics have ranked it as one of the greatest albums of all time. In particular, 's contributions, "Something" and "", are considered to be among the best songs he wrote for the group. The album's cover, which features the four band members walking across a  outside , has become one of the most famous and imitated images in the history of popular music.