"Something" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from
their eleventh studio album Abbey Road (1969). It was written by
George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. By the late 1970s, it
had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most
covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". An instrumental
version by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, from their Abbey Road tribute
album McLemore Avenue, peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100.
McLemore Avenue is a 1970 album by Booker T. & the M.G.s, consisting
entirely of mostly instrumental covers of songs from the Beatles' album
Abbey Road (released only months earlier, in September 1969). The title
and cover are an homage to the Beatles album, 926 East McLemore Avenue
being the address of the Stax Studios in Memphis, as Abbey Road was
for London’s EMI Studios, which were soon renamed Abbey Road Studios.
As a nod to Abbey Road's medleys, most of the M.G.s' selections are
arranged into their own medleys. McLemore Avenue peaked at #19 on
the Billboard R&B Albums chart and #107 on their 200 Pop Albums chart.
Booker T. Jones said, "I was in California when I first heard Abbey Road,
and I thought it was incredibly courageous of The Beatles to drop their
format and move out musically like they did. To push the limit like that
and reinvent themselves when they had no need to do that. They were
the top band in the world but they still reinvented themselves. The
music was just incredible so I felt I needed to pay tribute to it."
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