Author: Ya Ting, Wang Xiaoben
There is a scene in the movie "Yesterday's Miracle" in which the marketing director of the record company questions the male protagonist's idea of Using Abbey Road as the album name, "Abby Road, there is nothing special, it is just a road, and the direction of travel is wrong." ”
Makes sense. If the world really followed the plot of the movie and never had a band called the Beatles, then this tree-lined path in St John's Wood, London's upscale neighborhood, really has no reason to appear on the cover of a popular album, let alone become a mecca in the hearts of rock fans around the world.
Fortunately, this is a world with Beatles. On September 26, 1969, the Beatles' last co-recorded album, Abby Road, was officially released in the United Kingdom. Exactly 50 years later, this most famous street in rock 'n' roll history (perhaps not one of them) is still bustling with people.
Regarding the almost well-known album cover, band member Paul McCartney explained in an interview, Paul McCartney said that the inspiration for the photo of the four crossing the road together was actually improvised, and the original work plan was to shoot around the theme of Mount Everest, but no one in the band wanted to travel to Nepal, so it was proposed that it be done on the path outside the recording room.
The shooting was taken on August 8, 1969, by John Lennon's friend Ian McMillan, who stood on a ladder and took six photos, the fifth of which eventually became the cover of the album.
Abby Road is the beatles' eleventh album, which began recording at the Abbey Road Studios in April of that year. The album sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was voted the 14th of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
The songs on the album have long since become timeless classics, such as "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something" by George Harrison and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by John Lennon, which is 8 minutes long and has only 14 words.
There's a long-standing story about "Here Comes The Sun" that the five astronauts on Discovery woke up listening to the song on their first morning in space, and the first thing Houston Control center said to them was, "Good morning, Discovery, thank you for bringing sunshine into our hearts." ”
But reality has never been so romantic as music. During the recording of "Abbey Road", the band members had some disagreements over the creation, and the recording scene was a mess, and it was Paul McCartney himself who retrieved George Martin, known as the fifth person of the Beatles, to make the album barely complete.
At that time, division was inevitable, and George Harrison said that his wish was only to make a "good album good", but in this case, they made a near-perfect album, in Pitchfork's comments, "the perfect end of their recording career, this album shows their superb creative skills, others only envy." ”
But just after the release of the album, the original quarrel even gradually evolved to the point of mutual prosecution, and the media reports at the time continued to add fuel to the fire, believing that the dispute was related to the spouses of the band members, and many fans also attributed the reason for the beatles' dissolution directly to Yoko Ono.
But judging by fox news' interview with Beatles producer biographer Kenneth Womack this month, the reasons for the band's dissolution are far more complicated than outside guess. According to Womack, "The real reason was John Lennon's drug addiction at the time, and because they had a relationship similar to that of a loved one, they also had the same problems as other families plagued by drug addiction, and then the painful parts of the story were born." ”
No matter how much controversy was left at the time, the longer time passes, the clearer it becomes that the Beatles are a symbol of culture and spirituality. When every Beatles-related anniversary arrives, fans still come to Abby Road to take part in the commemoration spontaneously, and a company called EarthCam has even broadcast the entire webcast of Abby Road since 2011.
According to CNN, this year's Beatles commemoration was particularly hot, once to the point of causing traffic jams, and a British fan said emotionally in front of the camera camera, "The thought of us being 50 years apart but having been in the same place makes me feel that I have some kind of emotional connection with them." ”
Richard Porter, who had planned a Beatles-related tour, also told CNN a story about Abby Road, and Potter had come into contact with a defector who had fled north Korea to South Korea, and he came to Abby Road after he fell in love with the Beatles in South Korea, and Porter told CNN, "He cried when he first saw Abby Road, which is a symbol of freedom for him." ”
Although the Beatles have not had any new works, the cultural activities and works of art related to the Beatles have never stopped.
Yesterday's Miracle, released in the mainland in August, spent £30 million to buy the Beatles' music rights so that Beatles fans could "spend the New Year" in the cinema; last weekend, Sister Thunder invited John Lennon's son, Sean Lennon, to sing the song "Tomorrow Never Came" in tribute to the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"; and today Paul McCartney and Ringo Lennon were invited to sing the song "Tomorrow Never Came" on the same stage; and today Paul McCartney and Ringo Lennon were invited to sing the song "Tomorrow Never Come" on the same stage; and today Paul McCartney and Ringo Lennon were on the same stage. Starr also came to a reunion at the Abbey Road Studios.
On the Stephen Colbert show, which aired on Monday night, Paul McCartney revealed that he would always wonder if he was the "evil man" who had left the band falling apart, and that he had dreamed of John Lennon many times, and all his dreams were "beautiful."
When asked how he felt about fame, he said emotionally that he always felt that there were two selves, one was a star that everyone would cheer when they saw it, and the other was hidden in his heart, or the little boy who grew up on the streets of Liverpool, who had never changed.
Yeah, the distractions of the past will always pass with the passage of time, only great music is eternal, the sun will always rise, it's all right.