Abbey Road

diciembre 18, 2025

Abbey Road

Abbey Road - The Beatles (1969)

Lado A

Come Together

Something

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Oh Darling

Octopus's Garden

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Lado B

Here Comes The Sun

Because

You Never Give Me Your Money

Sun King

Mean Mr Mustard

Polythene Pam

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

Golden Slumbers

Carry That Weight

The End

Her Majesty

Abbey Road

Traducción Del Folleto (2009)

Abbey Road

NOTAS HISTÓRICAS

Lanzado el 26 de septiembre de 1969, Abbey Road fue el undécimo álbum de los Beatles en el Reino Unido y, aunque no fue su último LP, sí incluía las últimas canciones que grabaron juntos.

Por primera y única vez, la portada de un álbum de los Beatles no incluía ni su nombre ni un título, solo la ahora icónica foto tomada por Iain Macmillan. Fotografió al grupo caminando por Abbey Road en el norte de Londres, a pocos metros de la entrada de los estudios de EMI, donde se habían grabado la mayoría de sus canciones desde 1962.

Sin embargo, los Beatles habían comenzado a trabajar en 1969 no en Abbey Road, sino en un vasto estudio de sonido en los estudios de cine de Twickenham, rodeados de cámaras mientras ensayaban canciones para un concierto televisado. Este plan finalmente se abandonó y un álbum que contenía grabaciones realizadas en su propio estudio de Apple se retrasó hasta que estuviera listo un documental de las sesiones de enero. Sin embargo, dos de las canciones, «Get Back» y «Don't Let Me Down», se lanzaron en el decimonoveno sencillo de los Beatles en abril. Fue número uno mundial y pronto se le unió en las listas su siguiente, «The Ballad Of John And Yoko». Su sello Apple, recientemente lanzado, también estaba teniendo éxito con éxitos de Mary Hopkin y Billy Preston y la contribución creativa regular de los Beatles para una creciente lista de artistas.

Además de su exigente compromiso con la dirección de Apple, los Beatles trabajaron intensamente en su próximo álbum durante el verano. A diferencia de las primeras sesiones de 1969, que se hicieron "en vivo" sin sobre grabaciones, habían regresado a los estudios de Abbey Road para crear con George Martin grabaciones cuidadosamente elaboradas con ambiciosos arreglos musicales. Curiosamente, doce de las diecisiete canciones grabadas para Abbey Road se tocaron durante los ensayos y sesiones filmados en enero.

Abbey Road entró en la lista de álbumes británica en el número uno en octubre y permaneció allí durante un total de diecisiete de sus 81 semanas en la lista. El LP también alcanzó el número uno en Estados Unidos y permaneció once semanas en esa posición. Su permanencia inicial en la lista de los 200 álbumes más vendidos duró 83 semanas, hasta mayo de 1971.

En el Reino Unido, Abbey Road fue el único LP de los Beatles del que se publicaron canciones en un sencillo después del lanzamiento del álbum. Su tercer éxito del año combinó «Something» y «Come Together» y, en Estados Unidos, ambos títulos se mostraron en el número uno en noviembre de 1969.

NOTAS DE GRABACIÓN

Producido Por: George Martin

Orquestaciónes Por: George Martin

Ingeniero De Sonido: Philip Mcdonald & Geoff Emerick

Productor Adicional: Chris Thomas

El legado discográfico de los Beatles se completó en poco más de siete años. Durante este prolífico período, su colaboración con el productor George Martin y los ingenieros de Abbey Road había desafiado la forma en que se creaba la música popular. De hecho, en muchas ocasiones este equipo reescribió las reglas y estableció un nuevo estándar al que sus contemporáneos debían aspirar. Qué apropiado, entonces, que sus últimas grabaciones juntos se incluyeran en un álbum que lleva el nombre de la calle donde se encuentran los estudios de EMI.

A principios de 1969, los Beatles habían grabado en su propio estudio en el sótano del edificio de oficinas de Apple y también en el estudio independiente Trident.

Sin embargo, a partir de abril, todas las grabaciones restantes de los Beatles se realizaron en Abbey Road. El trabajo en su nuevo álbum se intensificó en verano y el Estudio Dos se reservó desde el 1 de julio hasta finales de agosto. De hecho, tal era su productividad que a veces el Estudio Tres se utilizaba simultáneamente

Aunque ahora usaban máquinas de ocho pistas, seguían encontrándose con el eterno problema de no tener un número suficiente de pistas para hacer frente a los ambiciosos arreglos. Esto se solucionó copiando o "reboteando" a una segunda cinta de ocho pistas, mientras que al mismo tiempo se mezclaban algunas de las pistas. De esta manera, se crearon pistas libres en la nueva cinta para sobregrabar instrumentos o voces adicionales, y siete canciones requirieron este proceso. Para cinco de ellas se les añadió una orquesta, que se grabó el 15 de agosto durante nueve horas y cuarto en el estudio uno.

Manteniéndose fieles al espíritu de aventura musical de sus álbumes anteriores, los Beatles fueron uno de los primeros grupos pop en utilizar un instrumento recién inventado. George Harrison había comprado uno de los pocos sintetizadores Moog existentes y este gran y difícil de manejar artilugio fue transportado a Abbey Road en agosto. El sonido generado electrónicamente del «Moog» se puede escuchar en «Because», «Here Comes The Sun», «I Want You (She's so heavy)» y «Maxwell's Silver Hammer».

Cuando sus dos primeros álbumes, Please Please Me y With The Beatles, se grabaron en cinta de doble pista, fue principalmente para permitir que la mezcla mono se centrara en otro momento. Todavía en sus inicios en 1963, al estéreo no se le dio la misma importancia. Incluso en 1967, cuando sería grabado el Sgt. Pepper's, el mono todavía se consideraba el formato dominante. Sin embargo, dos años más tarde, el mono fue completamente ignorado y el LP de Abbey Road se mezcló únicamente en estéreo. Unos años después del lanzamiento del álbum, el nombre de EMI Recording Studios se cambió oficialmente a 'Abbey Road' y los turistas esquivan el tráfico de Londres todos los días para tomarse fotos en el paso de peatones junto al edificio.

Cancionero Del Álbum

1. Come Together (4:20)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Shoot me, shoot me

Here come old flat-top

He come grooving up slowly

He got joo-joo eyeballs

He one holy roller

He got hair down to his knee

Got to be a joker, he just do what he please

Shoot me, shoot me

He wear no shoeshine

He got toe-jam football

He got monkey finger

He shoot Coca-Cola

He say: I know you, you know me

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Come together, right now

Over me

Shoot me, shoot me

Shoot me

He bag production

He got walrus gumboot

He got Ono sideboard

He one spinal cracker

He got feet down below his knee

Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease

Come together, right now

Over me

Shoot me, right!

Come, come

Come

He roller coaster

He got early warning

He got muddy water

He one mojo filter

He say: One and one and one is three

Got to be good looking, 'cause he's so hard to see

Come together, right now

Over me

Shoot me, shoot me

Shoot me, oh

Come together, yeah

2. Something (3:09)

(Harrison)

Something in the way she moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile, she knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (3:29)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical

Science in the home

Late nights all alone with a test tube

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine

Calls her on the phone

Can I take you out to the pictures

Joa, oa, oa, oan?

But as she's getting ready to go

A knock comes on the door

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon her head

Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that she was dead

Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again

Teacher gets annoyed

Wishing to avoid an unpleasant

Sce, e, e, ene

She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away

So he waits behind

Writing fifty times: I must not be

So-o-o

But when she turns her back on the boy

He creeps up from behind

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon her head (do, do, do, do)

Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that she was dead

P.C. thirty-one said: We caught a dirty one

Maxwell stands alone

Painting testimonial pictures

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery

Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)

The judge does not agree and he tells them

So, o, o, o

But as the words are leaving his lips

A noise comes from behind

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon his head

Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that he was dead

Whoa, oh, oh, oh

Silver hammer man

4. Oh Darling (3:29)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Oh, darling

Please, believe me

I'll never do you no harm

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

Oh, darling

If you leave me

I'll never make it alone

Believe me when I beg you

Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me

You didn't need me anymore

Well, you know

I nearly broke down and cried

When you told me

You didn't need me anymore

Well, you know

I nearly broke down and died

Oh, darling

If you leave me

I'll never make it alone

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

Believe me, darling

When you told me

You didn't need me anymore

Well, you know

I nearly broke down and cried

When you told me

You didn't need me anymore

Well, you know

I nearly broke down and died

Oh, darling

Please, believe me

I'll never let you down

Oh, believe me, darling

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

5. Octopus's Garden (2:52)

(Starkey)

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus's garden in the shade

He'd let us in, knows where we've been

In his octopus's garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see

An octopus's garden with me

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm

In our little hideaway beneath the waves

Resting our head on the sea bed

In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around

Because we know we can't be found

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about

The coral, that lies beneath the waves

(Lies beneath the ocean waves)

Oh, what joy for every girl and boy

Knowing they're happy and they're safe

(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy, you and me

No one there to tell us what to do

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus's garden with you

7. I Want You (She's So Heavy)

(Lennon - McCartney)

want you, I want you so bad

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

I want you, I want you so bad, babe

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me

I want you, I want you so bad, babe

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me bad

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me

She's so heavy

Heavy (heavy, heavy)

She's so heavy

She's so heavy (heavy, heavy)

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

I want you, you know I want you so bad, babe

I want you, you know I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

Yeah!

She's so heavy

8. Here Comes The Sun (3:13)

(Harrison)

Here comes the Sun (doo, doo, doo)

Here comes the Sun

And I say

It's all right

Little darling

It's been a long cold lonely winter

Little darling

It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the Sun (doo, doo, doo)

Here comes the Sun

And I say

It's all right

Little darling

The smiles returning to the faces

Little darling

It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the Sun

And I say

It's all right

Sun, Sun, Sun, here it comes

Little darling

I feel that ice is slowly melting

Little darling

It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the Sun (doo, doo, doo)

Here comes the Sun

And I say

It's all right

Here comes the Sun (doo, doo, doo)

Here comes the Sun

It's all right

9. Because (2:47)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Aah!

Because the world is round it turns me on

Because the world is round, aah

Because the wind is high it blows my mind

Because the wind is high, aah

Love is old, love is new

Love is all, love is you

Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry

Because the sky is blue, aah

Aah!

10. You Never Give Me Your Money (4:04)

(Lennon - McCartney)

You never give me your money

You only give me your funny paper

And in the middle of negotiations

You break down

I never give you my number

I only give you my situation

And in the middle of investigation

I break down

Out of college, money spent

See no future, pay no rent

All the money's gone, nowhere to go

Any jobber got the sack

Monday morning, turning back

Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go

But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go

Oh, that magic feeling

Nowhere to go

One sweet dream

Pick up the bags and get in the limousine

Soon we'll be away from here

Step on the gas and wipe that tear away

One sweet dream came true today

Came true today

Came true today (yes, it did)

One two three four five six seven

All good children go to heaven

11. Sun King (2:28)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Here comes the Sun king

Everybody's laughing

Everybody's happy

Here comes the Sun king

Quando paramucho mi amore de felice corazón

Mundo paparazzi mi amore chicka ferdy parasol

Questo obrigado tantamucho que canite carousel

12. Mean Mr Mustard (1:08)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park

Shaves in the dark

Trying to save paper

Sleeps in a hole in the road

Saving up to buy some clothes

Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose

Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop

She never stops

She's a go-getter

Takes him out to look at the queen

Only place that he's ever been

Always shouts out something obscene

Such a dirty old man

Dirty old man

13. Polythene Pam (1:14)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Well, you should see Polythene Pam

She's so good-looking, but she looks like a man

Well, you should see her in drag, dressed in her polythene bag

Yes, you should see Polythene Pam

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt

She's killer-diller when she's dressed to the hilt

She's the kind of a girl that makes The News Of The World

Yes, you could say she was attractively built

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey, great

14. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (2:00)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Oh, listen to that now, eheheh

Oh look out! It's!

She came in through the bathroom window

Protected by a silver spoon

But now she sucks her thumb and wanders

By the banks of her own lagoon

Didn't anybody tell her?

Didn't anybody see?

Sunday's on the phone to Monday

Tuesday's on the phone to me

She said she'd always been a dancer

She worked at fifteen clubs a day

And though she thought I knew the answer

Well, I knew what I could not say

And so I quit the police department

And got myself a steady job

And though she tried her best to help me

She could steal but she could not rob

Didn't anybody tell her?

Didn't anybody see?

Sunday's on the phone to Monday

Tuesday's on the phone to me

Oh, yeah

15. Golden Slumbers (1:33)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Once there was a way

To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home

Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby

Golden slumbers fill your eyes

Smiles awake you when you rise

Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby

Once there was a way

To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home

Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby

16. Carry That Weight (1:38)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight for a long time

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight for a long time

I never give you my pillow

I only send you my invitation

And in the middle of the celebrations

I break down

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight for a long time

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight

Carry that weight for a long time

17. The End (2:23)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Oh, yeah

Alright

Are you gonna be in my dreams

Tonight

Love you, love you, love you, love you

And in the end

The love you take

Is equal to

The love you make

18. Her Majesty (0:27)

(Lennon - McCartney)

Her majesty is a pretty nice girl

But she doesn't have a lot to say

Her majesty is a pretty nice girl

But she changes from day to day

I wanna tell her that I love her a lot

But I gotta get a belly full of wine

Her majesty is a pretty nice girl

Someday I'm gonna make her mine

Oh yeah, someday I'm gonna make her mine

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