"Come Together" | ||||
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Song by the Beatles | ||||
from the album Abbey Road | ||||
A-side | "Something" (double A-side) | |||
Released | 6 October 1969 | |||
Recorded | 21–30 July 1969, EMI Studios, London | |||
Genre | Blues rock[1] | |||
Length | 4:19 | |||
Label | Apple | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney | |||
Producer(s) | George Martin | |||
The Beatles singles chronology | ||||
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"Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written mostly by John Lennon[2] and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song is the first song on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. One month later it was released as a single with "Something", their twenty-first single in the United Kingdom and twenty-sixth in the United States. The song reached the top of the charts in the US,[3] and peaked at number four in the UK.[4] The song was also featured in a scene in the movie A Bronx Tale starring Robert De Niro.
It's a surface-heavy blues-rock tune, flanging and wailing away…