“You Never Give Me Your Money” by The Beatles

"You Never Give Me Your Money" opens the long medley that fills side two of Abbey Road, the Beatles' 1969 album, and it was the first piece of that medley they recorded, cut in stages between May and August. Paul McCartney wrote it, though it carries the Lennon–McCartney credit, and he aimed it straight at the band's own troubles.

The medley itself was McCartney's idea, worked out with George Martin as a way to use up song fragments lying around. This song is a suite in miniature, starting as a piano ballad and ending on rippling guitar arpeggios. McCartney sings lead and plays piano and bass, John Lennon and George Harrison play electric guitars and join him on backing vocals, and Ringo Starr handles drums and tambourine. The backing track was laid down at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, with the overdubs done at EMI Studios.

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