What we’re about
This group will be a fun and easy discussion of all things Beatles related. Whether you’re a veteran Beatles die hard or newer to their music, we’ll discuss, listen and explore their music and influence on the world. This is not a performance group. We’ll eat, drink, talk and enjoy their music.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Meet The Beatles Group Monthly MeetingJohnny's New York Style Pizza, Marietta, GA
This month's meeting will focus on Abbey Road.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records. It is the last album the group recorded.
It was mostly recorded in April, July, and August 1969, and topped the record charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A double A-sidesingle from the album, "Something" / "Come Together", was released in October, which also topped the charts in the US.
Although Abbey Road was an instant commercial success, it received mixed reviews upon release. Some critics found its music inauthentic and criticised the production's artificial effects. By contrast, critics today view the album as one of the Beatles' best and one of the greatest albums of all time. George Harrison's two songs on the album, "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun", are considered among the best he wrote for the group. The album's cover, featuring the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing outside of Abbey Road Studios(then officially named EMI Studios), is one of the most famous and imitated of all time.
- Meet The Beatles Group Monthly MeetingJohnny's New York Style Pizza, Marietta, GA
This month's meeting will focus on Let It Be.
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month following the official announcement of the group's public break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name.
In April, the Beatles issued the lead single "Get Back", backed with "Don't Let Me Down", after which engineer Glyn Johns prepared and submitted mixes of the album, then titled Get Back, which the band rejected. As bootlegs of these mixes circulated widely among fans,[2] the project lay in limbo, and the group moved on to the recording of Abbey Road, released that September.
When the documentary film was resurrected for a cinema release, as Let It Be, Lennon and Harrison asked American producer Phil Spector to assemble the accompanying album. Among Spector's choices was to include a 1968 take of "Across the Universe" and apply orchestral and choral overdubs to "Let It Be", "Across the Universe" and "The Long and Winding Road". His work offended McCartney, particularly in the case of the latter, which was the third and final single of the album.
Let It Be topped record charts in several countries, including both the UK and the US. However, it was a critical failure at the time, and came to be regarded as one of the most controversial rock albums in history, though retrospective reception has been more positive.[3][4] In 2003, McCartney spearheaded Let It Be... Naked, an alternative version of Let It Be that removes Spector's embellishments and alters the tracklist.
