10 Best Hidden Tracks On Rock Music Albums
1. Her Majesty - Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Perhaps the greatest hidden track in all of music comes from one of the greatest albums ever committed to record.
In the middle of recording material for the project that would eventually become Let It Be, The Beatles decided to take a break and go back to their roots. They started work on another entirely new album, which would later take shape as 1969's Abbey Road.
As well as songs like Come Together, Something, and Octopus' Garden, the album also features an ending medley, which wraps up with a short song known simply as The End.
The perfect place to call it quits, or so you'd think.
Instead, the band decided to actually end things on a song called Her Majesty, a 23-second hidden track about how Paul McCartney is in love with the Queen.
This is pure Beatles flippancy at its finest. They could have simply bowed out on a beautiful suite of music, but instead decided that their final contribution as a proper band would be a stupid ditty that wasn't even listed on the back of the album.
This is why they're the greatest of all time.