The Beatles – Sun King (2:26)

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“Sun King” is a song by The Beatles that appeared on the Abbey Road album. It is the second song of the B-side’s climactic medley.

In an interview in 1987, Harrison said that the recording was inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross”. “At the time, ‘Albatross’ (by Fleetwood Mac) was out, with all the reverb on guitar. So we said, ‘Let’s be Fleetwood Mac doing Albatross, just to get going.’ It never really sounded like Fleetwood Mac… but that was the point of origin.”

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pteronophobic

It's a bird innit?

last week
Yunie58

Also thought of Don't Let Me Down a bit [2].

last week
crawlpalmetto

Fully agree. For the Beatles it's another (admittedly mindblowing) song. For anyone else this is as good as it gets. <3

February 2012
pogopatterson

Beatle perfection. No other group would have a tune like this simply sitting on an album, it would be their signature tune.

January 2012
irfanh23

die lyrics sont ridocolmentes et imaginativos [2]

December 2011
APRILELIZ

love

December 2011
Mastah_Ev

Abbey Road Medley

November 2011
barryvs

Christ, there aren't a lot of Beatles songs I haven't added to my loved tracks. Made me think of Albatross too, just for a few seconds though. Also thought of Don't Let Me Down for a bit,

November 2011
digitaldisc0

Love the effects on the guitar. Very chilled out song.

October 2011
Fishmonk

This is the best Beatles song, no question

July 2011
Nakkinak

die lyrics sont ridocolmentes et imaginativos

May 2011
yagi_chiefette

*-* GREAT!!!! I adore it

May 2011
MilesAboveYou

Still prefer Albatross.

April 2011
Valchiria83

E' un incanto, un incanto.

February 2011
alemii

reminds me of summer...

December 2010
Sheik777

chika ferdi

December 2010
mr_newsman

I love the mixing of romance languages♥

October 2010
arenamaster

And how is this Albatross? it's inspired, yeah, but that's where it ends. they both use reeverb guitar, who gives a shit?

September 2010
arenamaster

I used to not like this song, but now I love it

September 2010
Big_Dip

The foreign part of the song is a garbled mixture of Spanish and Italian, which roughly translates to: "When for much my love of happy heart, world paparazzi my love green for warm sun, hill as much much that small carousel."

August 2010