That weird blast of a note at the beginning is actually the final chord of “Mean Mr. The next day, when McCartney heard the song placed randomly at the end of Abbey Road, he loved it, and decided it should remain there on the final cut of the album. But, as Kurlander later explained: “I'd been told never to throw anything away, so after he left I picked it up off the floor, put about 20 seconds of red leader tape before it and stuck it onto the end of the edit tape.” Kurlander was told to cut the song and throw it away. Mustard” and “Polythene Pam.” But, according to the engineer there that day, John Kurlander, Paul McCartney (who is the only one who performs on the track) heard “Her Majesty” in that spot and decided it didn’t fit. As the story goes, the song was originally intended to be placed in a medley between “Mean Mr. “Her Majesty” was recorded in three takes on July 2, 1969. I’ve played it in one sitting on repeat, dozens of times, fascinated.
I’ve fallen in love during those 26 seconds (my now-partner and I sharing Cadbury Eggs years ago listening to the back half of Abbey Road in a parking lot in my busted Chevy Blazer). It’s 23 seconds I’ve never been able to get out of my head since the first time I heard it-since it surprised me uncredited at the end of Abbey Road, where it came and went like I'd imagined it. In fact, “Her Majesty” is something of a joke, with nonsensical nursery rhyme lyrics and a sloppy, out of place first note. I’m going to keep this short, because there’s beauty in brevity, which The Beatles taught me on “Her Majesty.” It’s a 23-second-long-song (26 if you look at Spotify) that almost didn’t exist.
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