Every Beatles Album's Opening Track Ranked From Worst To Best
1. Come Together- Abbey Road
Let It Be may have been The Beatles final official release, but the last album they all started working on was Abbey Road. With one last surge of creativity, the band put aside their differences and crafted a standout record full of some of their best ever songs.
The first song on this celebration of musical talent? The extraordinary Come Together.
Inspired by the campaign slogan of a politician friend of Lennon's, Come Together is one non-sequitur after another. Joo joo eyeball? Walrus gumboot? Spinal cracker? Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
Side note - you just know that there are some people out there who will defend these lyrics and criticise Yellow Submarine's in the same breath.
Wacky words to one side, the music on this song is off the scale. How many tunes do you know that have both an iconic bassline and one of the most recognisable drum patterns in pop music history?
Some of Ringo's finest work, that is.
An all-time great Beatles song, Come Together brings so many of the band's best elements together and offers a first glance of what would turn out to be a career-defining album.