Come Together
| "Come Together" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| 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 English rock band the Beatles written mostly by John Lennon 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, and peaked at number four in the UK. The song was also featured in a scene in the movie A Bronx Tale starring Robert De Niro.
The song has been covered by several other artists, including Ike & Tina Turner, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Eurythmics, Joe Cocker, Michael Jackson, and Gary Clark Jr.
References
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It's a surface-heavy blues-rock tune, flanging and wailing away…
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- ↑ Wallgren 1982, p. 57.
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