Abbey Road (album)

Cover versions

• One month after Abbey Road's release, George Benson recorded a cover version of the album called The Other Side of Abbey Road.
• As mentioned above, in 1970 Booker T. & the M.G.'s recorded McLemore Avenue which covered the Abbey Road songs and has a cover photo which mimiced the Abbey Road cover. Stax Records was located at McLemore Avenue.
• In 1998, Phil Collins covered the medley "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" for the George Martin/Beatles tribute album In My Life.
• Aerosmith has a particularly famous cover of "Come Together", recorded for the film version of The Beatles' earlier album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
• The Legendary Pink Dots covered a tiny snippet of "Here Comes the Sun" in the song "I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty".
• In addition, there is a cover of "Golden Slumbers" by Ben Folds for the "I Am Sam" soundtrack of Beatles covers.
• Elliott Smith covered the song "Because" on the "American Beauty" soundtrack.
• Tenacious D have also been known to include the "You Never Give Me Your Money" part of the medley in their live performances.
• Dream Theater covered the "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" medley as part of their 1988 "Xmas Demos".
• TransAtlantic also covered a large portion of the Abbey Road medley, as well as some other Beatles songs, on their Live in Europe DVD, which was released in 2003.
• Trey Anastasio has covered the medley from "Mean Mr. Mustard" through "The End" with his band 70 Volt Parade. The first performance of this took place at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on May 13, 2005.
• Coroner covered "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" as the closing track to their 1991 album Mental Vortex.