Let It Be would follow a year later in 1970, but Abbey Road -- released in September of 1969 -- would ultimately prove to be the last album the increasingly fractious Beatles ever recorded together.

Even if the creative gas was getting low in the tank and there was some 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 -- Lennon thoroughly disliked the finished product -- but it's consistently one of our biggest-selling Beatles titles so they must have done something right.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End

 (50th Anniversary Edition, Import) [APPLE]