The Beatles: Abbey Road (50th anniversary edition, import) [APPLE]

Why you'll love it

This pressing carries the 2019 stereo mix Giles Martin and Sam Okell made for the album's 50th anniversary. Abbey Road topped the charts in the U.K. and U.S., and side two's medley is one of the greatest 16 minutes in rock. "Something" and "Come Together" topped the U.S. singles chart as a double A-side.

This edition

• 50th anniversary edition
• 2019 stereo mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell
• Import pressing

About the album

Let It Be would follow in 1970, but Abbey Road (which came out in September of 1969) would ultimately prove to be the last album the Beatles ever recorded together.

Even with a little intra-band tension in the studio over the direction the record would take, Abbey Road contributed a few keepers to the canon that stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Beatles' finest work: John Lennon's "Come Together," George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something," Paul McCartney's rather prescient "The End" and ... hell ... even Ringo Starr's silly-but-sticky "Octopus's Garden." And if nothing else, the cover photo of the four Beatles walking single-file over the crosswalk outside EMI Studios (later Abbey Road Studios) is one of the most iconic album covers of all time. Everyone has a different opinion on Abbey Road, but it's consistently one of our biggest-selling Beatles titles, so they must have done something right.

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On Apple (cat# B003071901), the 50th anniversary edition of the 1969 album.