Tribute to The Beatles: Abbey Road

In the organizer's words:

Come together right now...

In the third part of the Beatles Tribute series at the Theater Rigiblick, the Beatles' press spokesman talks about the events surrounding the production of the album, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019.

Daniel Rohr slips into the role of Beatles press spokesman Derek Taylor. He experienced the controversial and highly creative Abbey Road phase at first hand, but had to battle against a never-ending storm of problems at the time. Even today, the album sounds like it was recorded yesterday, and that won't change tomorrow: Come Together, Something and Here Comes the Sun have become as inscribed in the cultural DNA as Moon Landing, Nixon and Woodstock. And these are just three of the songs on "Abbey Road".

"Just like before" - that is the tenor of "Abbey Road", the last album by the most important band in rock history. Last album? A swan song then? There are at least many indications that the Beatles did not want to say goodbye with a half-finished album. The sessions for "Let It Be" in January 1969 failed virtually before their eyes due to ego problems and an acute lack of desire. The album, which they wanted to record on their own for the first time, simply didn't take shape: "Get back to our rock 'n' roll roots" was too poor a motto for a band that had now reached prophetic proportions, and not just in the pop world.

The recordings were initially scrapped, so "Let It Be" was only released after "Abbey Road", when the Beatles were no longer working together. For their final recordings, the Beatles once again knocked on the door of their producer George Martin, who had no longer expected this and who would once again create something unheard of at the Beatles' nostalgic home, Abbey Road Studios in London. The closely guarded secret Beatles formula, never discovered by anyone, led one last time to immortal songs with a timeless sound. The album united all the contrasts of paradisiacal collaboration on just two grooves, so to speak, as if you could pick out the four most beautiful specimens from an endless sea of flowers at first glance: John, Paul, George and Ringo live - and love - audibly once again the power that makes them stronger as Beatles than the sum of their personalities. John's sarcasm and earthiness, Paul's dreamy rock melancholy, Ringo's punctual repartee and George's newly discovered compositional genius make the last rebellion of the titans the pop benchmark of the coming decades.

By the way: The second part of the Beatles tribute "White Album - You Say You Want A Revolution" has won the "Prix Walo". We are very happy about this.

In cooperation with Theater Rigiblick Zurich.

Price information:

Advance booking: 35,- / reduced: 25,- €