Her Majesty - Music

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Her Majesty

The-Beatles - Abbey Road

"Her Majesty" Is A Song Written By Paul McCartney Credited To Lennon/McCartney And Recorded By The Beatles For Their 1969 Album Abbey Road. Some Observers Consider It The First Example Of A Hidden Track. Recording The Song Was Recorded In Three Takes On 2 July 1969 Prior To The Beatles Beginning Work On "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight". McCartney Sang And Simultaneously Played A Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Accompaniment. The Decision To Exclude It From The Abbey Road Medley Was Made On 30 July. It Runs Only 23 Seconds But The Beatles Also Recorded A Longer Version During The Get Back Sessions. In The Song The Singer Muses About The Queen And His Plan To Someday "make Her Mine". Structure & Placement The Song Was Originally Placed Between "Mean Mr. Mustard" And "Polythene Pam" McCartney Decided That The Sequence Did Not Work And It Was Edited Out Of The Album's Closing Medley By Abbey Road Studios Tape Operator John Kurlander. He Was Instructed By McCartney To Destroy The Tape But EMI Policy Stated That No Beatles Recording Was Ever To Be Destroyed. The Fourteen Seconds Of Silence Between "The End" And "Her Majesty" Are The Result Of Kurlander's Lead-Out Tape Added To Separate The Song From The Rest Of The Recording. The Loud Chord That Occurs At The Beginning Of The Song Is The Ending As Recorded Of "Mean Mr. Mustard". "Her Majesty" Ends Abruptly Because Its Own Final Note Was Left At The Beginning Of "Polythene Pam". McCartney Applauded Kurlander's "surprise Effect" And The Track Became The Unintended Closer To The LP. The Crudely Edited Beginning And End Of "Her Majesty" Shows That It Was Not Meant To Be Included In The Final Mix Of The Album As McCartney Says In The Beatles Anthology "Typical Beatles – An Accident." The Song Was Not Listed On The Original Vinyl Record's Sleeve As They Had Already Been Printed On Reprinted Sleeves However It Is Listed. The CD Edition Corrects This.