In Solid Condition, Kenneth Womack supplies the most definitive account of the conception, saving, combining, and reception of Abbey Street.

In Feb 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album jointly. Abbey Road released several new techniques and technologies towards the Beatles’ sound and included “Come Together,” “Something,” and “Right here Comes sunlight,” which all surfaced as classics.

Womack’s colorful retelling of how this landmark record was written and documented is a treat about Solid State: The Story of Abbey Street and the finish of the Beatles for supporters of the Beatles. Good State takes listeners back to 1969 and into EMI’s Abbey Street Studios, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing table. Womack targets the dynamics between John, Paul, George, and Ringo and manufacturer George Martin and his group of technicians, who for the most part set aside the tensions and issues that had arisen on prior albums to make a work with an innovative (and among some enthusiasts and critics, controversial) studio-bound audio that prominently included the brand new Moog synthesizer, among various other novelties.

As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the instrumental abilities, recording products, and artistic eyesight that the band and George Martin had developed since their start in the same studio seven years before. A testament to the group’s creativeness and their producer’s ingenuity, Solid Condition is required reading for all those fans from the Beatles and the rock ‘n’ move.