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TIL the Rolling Stone review for Abbey Road said, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this,” calling songs on it “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” It was later listed #14 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums list.

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