IT WAS AROUND 40 YEARS AGO, TODAY

Shoulda really been The End

It is interesting that in many quarters, the newly remastered version of Abbey Road was the fastest off the shelves and outta the bins on Sept. 9.

Many of us so-called all-thing Beatle watchers were predicting that shurely, the winner(s) would
most likely be Sgt. Pepper and The White Album.

Any bloody ways, there is no argument that AR was/is a great recording, and it should have been the Fabs' swan song LP in the early fall of 1969.
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Instead, the good but mish-moshy Let it Be was cobbled together by now jail-bird Phil Spector in 1970, and so LIB stood as the Beatles final offering.
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Which is really too bad cuz the looseness of Let it Be would have fit in perfect for '69, whilst the more polished Abbey Road was surely a harbinger of things to come for rock in the more production-value/style of the early 70s.
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Still, I would place Abbey Road at number 4, in the Beatle big-top.