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The Beatles  "Abbey Road"  Apple Records PCS 7088  UK 3rd press Vinyl, LP, housed in an "Apple" inner sleeve and released in 1970.
The vinyl has an obvious mark on Side 2, but played through beautifully on my elderly stereo - no hop, stick or jump. It is housed in an "Apple" inner sleeve, which has a small split to the bottom seam, but which is otherwise in good shape. Similarly, apart from some light ring-wear, the sleeve is also in good shape, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout  Side 1 : YEX 749-2 Matrix / Runout  Side 2 : YEX 750-1
"Abbey Road" is the Beatles' eleventh studio album, first released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. Named after the location of EMI Studios in London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing, an image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music. The album's initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success, topping record charts in the UK and US. The lead single "Something" / "Come Together" was released in October and topped the US charts.
The album incorporates genres such as blues, rock and pop, and makes prominent use of Moog synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker, and tom-tom drums. It is the Beatles' only album recorded exclusively through a solid-state transistor mixing desk, which afforded a clearer and brighter sound than the group's previous records. Side two contains a medley of shorter song fragments. The sessions also produced a non-album single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" backed with "Old Brown Shoe".
Producer George Martin returned on the condition that the Beatles adhere to the discipline of their earlier records. They found the album's recording more enjoyable than the preceding "Get Back" sessions, but personal issues still permeated the band. Production lasted from February to August 1969, and the closing track "The End" marked the final occasion that all four members recorded together. John Lennon privately left the group six days before the album's release; Paul McCartney publicly declared the band's break-up the following April.
Upon release, detractors found "Abbey Road" to be inauthentic and bemoaned the production's artificial effects. Since then, many critics have hailed the album as the Beatles' finest and a contender for the greatest album of all time; in particular, "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are considered among the best songs George Harrison wrote for the group. The album has also been ranked as one of the Beatles' best-selling, including a multi-platinum certification by the RIAA. Shortly after its release, the cover photograph fuelled rumours of McCartney's purported death. EMI Studios was also renamed Abbey Road Studios in honour of the album. In 2020, it was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone's list of the greatest albums of all time.