11. The End

 It's certainly a fitting end to their career...everyone gets a solo.  First Ringo had to be persuaded to do his solo and then Paul, George, and John (in that order) do their guitar solos.  Ringo's solo sounds easy until you try to play it.  He puts just enough off balance fills into it to make it worthy of The End.  I can't really picture the three guitarist standing in a room together playing this lead, something about the way it's played makes them seem miles apart...which they were.  None the less, it's a brilliant end to a stellar body of work.  It's interesting that Paul doesn't even play a bass line on the final 30 seconds.  Thank God he followed it up with Her Majesty and the final hanging chord so we knew there was more to come.  Paul really seemed to know what he was doing on Abbey Road.  The final lyric, all Paul, the love you take is equal to the love you make is not to be discounted as perfect.

Ringo's drumming, after his solo is steller.  His high hat screams energy and unfortunately I get the sense it might be Paul overdubbing the drums.  Paul was certainly in charge of the Abbey Road sessions in every way.