If the Beatles had made no other record besides this one, they still would have a major impact on Rock and Roll.
Abbey Road is perfect, booming in with "Come Together", leading in to the beautiful George Harrison composition "Something" - "the best love song in the past 50 years," - according to Frank Sinatra. Side one also has a gem from Ringo Starr - "Octopus' Garden", and it ends with the cascading "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
Side Two opens with another Harrison great, "Here Comes the Sun" - written after a morning in Eric Clapton's garden. The album soon dives into a medley, like nothing else before in rock. This is mostly Paul McCartney-dominated, with song like "She Came in Through The Bathroom Window" and "Golden Slumbers", with an honourable mention to John Lennon's "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam".
It ends out with the aptly titled "The End", and then, almost as an afterthought - "Her Majesty". A fitting farewell indeed.