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All good things come to an end; it’s an old adage with a ring of truth that, sadly, The Beatles bore out. Although Let It Be may have been their last release chronologically, Abbey Road was actually the final album that they recorded, and on the 11th of August 1969, John Lennon turned in his last days work with the four-piece on the track ‘Oh! Darling’.

The track is an old school rocking gut-punch, featuring some of Paul McCartney’s heaviest vocals on record, vocals that make any listeners larynx shudder. It was croaky and shouty very much by design, Paul commenting that he, “Wanted it to sound as though [he’d] been performing it on stage all week”.

Such an impassioned singing performance, however, did not necessarily impress John Lennon, whose last act was to add some layering backing vocals. Although he was a fan of the song, Lennon wasn’t about to give Paul full credit for the performance, stating: “Oh! Darling’ was a great one of Paul’s that he didn’t sing too well. I always thought that I could’ve done it better – it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it. If he’d had any sense, he should have let me sing it.”

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