The Making Of Abbey Road
"I was quite surprised when Paul rang me up and said, 'We're going to make another record, would you like to produce it?' and my immediate answer was, 'Only if you let me produce it the way we used to.' and he said, 'We do want to do that' and I said, 'John included?' and he said, 'Yes, honestly.'" (GEORGE MARTIN)
"And we hit upon the idea of medleying them all, which gave the second side of Abbey Road a kind of sort of operatic kind of structure which was quite nice because it got rid of all these songs in a good way."
"We didn't know, or I didn't know at the time cos it was the last Beatle record that we would make but... it kind of felt a bit like we were reaching the end of the line."
"You tended to think, 'Well, if there's going to be a single it'll be John, or me, or John and me that would write it'. And then suddenly George just came up with this song, you know, 'Something in the way...'."
"I think it was in a way the feeling that it might be our last, so let's just show 'em what we can do, let's show each other what we can do, and let's try and have a good time doing it." "The last section of Abbey Road you know I still think is for me one of the finest pieces we put together."