Not to get all Manson Family on you, but should we read, too deeply, into this Beatles song?
The Beatles had tried, and failed, to film the recording of an album, from beginning to end. After acrimonious battles within the group, they shelved the “Let It Be” project.
Realizing that they were perhaps at the end of their partnership, they agreed to collaborate, as peacefully as possible, on one final album, “Abbey Road.”
Side Two of the Beatles final record seems to end with “The End,” which features Ringo’s only-ever-in-the-Beatles-catalog drum solo, and three short guitar solo leads, by Paul, John and George in succession.
“And In The End, The Love You Take,
Is Equal To The Love You Make.”
A fitting final lyric to the legacy of this monumental band.
So what to make of the fact that after “The End” and a breath of silence, Paul comes in, solo, singing, “Her Majesty”?
The song was supposed to be a part of the Side Two medley, but the band didn’t like how it fit into the whole, so it was snipped out. And its tacked-on appearance at the end of the album, was the result of an engineer, who did not want the performance to be lost.
But why did it Stay?
What does it say about The End of the Beatles? About Paul? Or his Ego? About the other Beatles? Or does that fact that I’m thinking about it some 40 years later, really say something about me?
How does this 23-second coda suddenly change the final word?
What do you think?
Hear "Her Majesty"
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