The Beatles Abbey Road Album on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, was released on this day in 1969. There are many mysteries surrounding the album cover. Paul is barefooted, and although he is left-handed, he is holding a cigarette in his right hand. There were a lot of "Paul is dead" conspiracies at the time so this only enhanced that narrative. On the back cover, we see the band’s name written in tiles on a wall and there’s a crack running through it, symbolizing the band's break-up.

Also: "For the only time in their career, The Beatles presented the world with an album cover that didn’t feature their name, or the title of the LP at all. Designer John Kosh claimed that EMI bosses were furious, but argued: 'The biggest band in the world, you don’t have to say who they are - everyone knows who they are.'" Source

Although the album was an immediate commercial success, it received mixed reviews. Some critics found its music inauthentic and criticized the production's artificial effects. By contrast, critics today view the album as one of the Beatles' best and rank it as one of the greatest albums of all time. George Harrison's two songs on the album, "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun", have been regarded as some of the best he wrote for the group.

Since its release on September 26, 1969, the Album has sold nearly 27.5 million copies worldwide.

The Beatles still sell a ton of albums. "The Liverpudlian rockers were the sixth-bestselling album artist of the past decade, selling 10.3 million “pure” albums (not including album-equivalent units derived from streaming or individual song downloads). They were also the 10th-bestselling artist of 2019 in terms of total consumption, moving 2.26 million album-equivalent units, including over 2.6 billion on-demand audio streams." Forbes

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