You Never Give Me Your Money

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"You Never Give Me Your Money" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon–McCartney), and thematically documents the personal difficulties the band was facing. The song is the first part of the medley on side two of the 1969 album Abbey Road and was recorded in stages between May and August that year. The song was the first one recorded for the medley, which was conceived by McCartney and producer George Martin as a way to use up fragments of various Lennon-McCartney songs. Author and music critic Ian McDonald has speculated that the medley was created as a grand finale to the Beatles career, but McCartney has since refuted some of his thoughts about the groups song origins. The backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, London, but the remainder of overdubs occurred at EMI Studios. The song contains a suite of various segments, ranging from a piano ballad at the beginning through to guitar arpeggios at the...

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