Riffiter’s review of the albumAbbey Road

Side one has the songs people hum. Side two has the record. Lennon called the medley junk and pieces with no thread between them, and he was right that the join marks show. That is exactly why it works. Eight fragments run into sixteen minutes that feel like a band emptying its pockets on the way out the door, and "Golden Slumbers" into "The End" is still the best exit anyone has made. The weak spot is Maxwell's Silver Hammer, a novelty song they spent too long on. Take the half star off for that. The 23 seconds of "Her Majesty" only survived because an engineer wasn't allowed to throw tape away, and the album is better with the accident left in.