Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of "Abbey Road," The Beatles LAST album recorded together (and many would say their BEST album recorded together.) But would "Abbey Road" MAKE it, here in 2019?? I'm not so sure.
For starters, that iconic COVER*. It's problematic, here in 2019.
See, there's John Lennon leading the group of three guys in DARK suits with a WHITE suit on. The Politically Correct crowd of white Liberals laden with White Guilt might find that OFFENSIVE and somehow an expression of a secret "White Privilege" being expressed. CAN'T SELL OR PLAY IT, THEREFORE.
And the song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on this album talks of someone killing someone with a hammer....can't have THAT. (Hey, their PREVIOUS album, the "White Album," had a song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," but we can't let these guys get away with White Privilege and Violence messages AGAIN, right??)
And besides, when you listen to the trash that passes as popular music these days, "Abbey Road" is TOO GOOD for 2019. There's no RAP in it.
(I'm being facetious, of course, about the White Privilege and Violence.) Around this time in 1969, by the way, rumors started flying that Paul McCartney was DEAD because he was walking with bare feet on this "Abbey Road" album cover (among many OTHER silly "clues.")
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Well I just saw Paul on TV the other night and he's just as alive...and vain...as ever. More alive than the possibility of "Abbey Road" selling millions of records were it released in 2019, in my opinion.
*Not only have many "covered" (recorded) Beatles' songs but this COVER has been "covered" (imitated and spoofed) hundreds of times over the years.
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