Talk:The End (Beatles song)

message: According to Ian MacDonald in the text Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Harrison's song "I Me Mine" was the last Beatles track to be recorded.  Although it doesn't feature all four Beatles (John Lennon was not present for the session), it was recorded 2 April 1970, a full eight months after work ended on "The End."
The last full recording session to feature all four Beatles was "Polythene Pam/She Cam In Through The Bathroom Window," recorded 30 July 1969.  However, later work on "The End" in August 1969 constitutes the last session for which each Beatle was present.
The wiki page for "The End" incorrectly states that it was the last song recorded by The Beatles.  This title should refer to "I Me Mine," despite the fact that Lennon was not present.
Havl
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"
Is that true?
If it isn't, it should be.
There's some contradictory information here - can we get to the bottom of it?
From the The End article:
Additionally, there are three extended guitar solos performed in turn by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon, although it is not positively known when each one begins and finishes. Each had a distinctive style which McCartney felt reflected their personalities.
From the Abbey Road article:
as well as a blistering lead guitar solo from Harrison using several distinct guitar tones to create the effect of multiple guitarists playing.
What gives?MBlume 07:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't given any thought to it before, but assuming the first of the above two passages is true, then to me it seems quite clear who is playing what. Once the solos break out after the initial chords, each Beatle, in the order named, plays two measures, three times: two by Paul, two by George, two by John, three times, for a total of 18 measures. That's just a guess on my part, but if you're listening for it, it would seem to be pretty straightforward. Richard K. Carson 22:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: What about Strawberry Fields Forever on the Anthology 2? Helpsloose 18:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a tambourine as well, so it's not a solo? Wrapped in Grey (talk) 14:31, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ringo Starr's only drum solo for The Beatles? 

message: What is the origin of the plaque featured in the article? —suzukaze (t・c) 04:16, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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message: Local description: 2021 song by the Beatles ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.180.54.230 (talk) 15:34, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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message: "Gould terms these live studio takes "little character sketches" " -- Since this is the first mention in the article of Jonathan Gould or his book, he should be identified by more than just "Gould." 
Something like "Jonathan Gould, in his book [etc.], terms these live studio takes "little character sketches":" would be better.
I know he's identified in the footnote, but this is just good practice. As it happened, when I saw the name Gould I went looking earlier in the article to find the (non-existent) earlier reference to him, for just this reason.JohnMason (talk) 18:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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message: Hi User:Echoedmyron. Your revert was entirely correct, so but then I looked into it. Following is a really prolix tl;dr passage, but sometimes I just like to think out loud. Nobody has to read it and the Modern Drummer ref is sufficient I think.
OK, so, the solo on "The End" is Ringo's only drum solo with the Beatles. We can be sure of that, because we have a lot of sources saying it. Most are clearly unreliable, and one or two are marginally reliable if that. Except for Modern Drummer, which I think (think) is the #1 drum magazinr
But the big thing is, at least on the internet, there is not one source, reliable, unreliable, or even a one-person blog that contradicts this. There's nobody -- nobody (that I've found yet) -- who writes like "The End is often stated to be Ringo's only drum solo with the Beatles, but actually in song X..." Not even some guy on his personal blog. You can't technically by the laws of logic prove a negative (I think), but I mean, c'mon, we're not writing philosophy treatise here, and the internet has a whole lot of opinion writing.
As for our the belief on the facts of the matter (which would have to be backed by reliable sources), what is a Drum solo? That article says "A drum solo may be... of any length", which I suppose "any length" could be one bar or even one beat, but then Solo (music) says "a solo... is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer", with Section (music) being all like "in music, a section is a complete, but not independent, musical idea. Types of sections include the introduction...", and then Introduction (music) has "introduction" as being" a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music, this is often known as the song intro or just the intro..." which I think doesn't take a stand either way. So dead end here, maybe.
But then sites -- none necessarily reliable, but there are lot of them, and anyway this is matter of opinion where reliability is not in play so much as standing and importance -- usually imply that "drum solo" is a significant part; one uses Wipeout (instrumental) as an example. Anyway, going on the common meaning of the term "drum solo", it seems that people think it includes the one in "The End" but not the breaks or fills in "Sergeant Pepper" or Strawberry Fields Forever (on the Anthology 2) or Octopuses Garden or Birthday. Rightly or wrongly that seems to be the caseMaybe the "The End" solo is just enough longer than the others to make the difference, I don't know.
So then to say "one of the few" is kind of misleading. Like saying "Bill Clinton was one the few US Presidents named Clinton" or whatever. So I changed it and sourceed it to Modern Drummer which I figure is reliable enough. Herostratus (talk) 22:20, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ringo Starr's only drum solo for The Beatles!