In The Beatles song "The End" who is who during the quitar battle?

Question

I can pick out which ones are Lennon's because his guitar playing is so much grittier and unclean but I'm having a hard time telling the difference between McCartney's and Harrison's bits. I'm hoping someone more musically inclined would be able to tell me who is who in the epic guitar battle

I mean explicitly... I know that John, George, and Paul all play at the end but specifically.... who plays the first solo, who plays the second solo, who plays the third solo (John I think). and so on and so forth

Answer 1

I just wanted to throw this in... I saw Paul McCartney on the "Flowers in the Dirt" tour in the early Nineties and his guitar playing was absolutely astounding. I grew up listening to the Beatles, then later Paul and Wings, but I never knew the true talent of his guitar mastery. Sure, I knew his acoustic skills were incredible, but when he pulled out his Les Paul and dueled with Hamish Stuart (whom you should really check out) my face nearly melted off. Cheers...

Answer 2

Recording began on 23 July 1969 when the Beatles recorded a 1 minute 20 second master take that was extended via overdubs to 2 minutes 5 seconds. At this point, the song was called "Ending." The first vocals for the song were added on 5 August, additional vocals and guitar overdubs were added on 7 August, and bass and drums on 8 August, the day the Abbey Road cover picture was taken. Orchestral overdubs were added 15 August, and the closing piano and accompanying vocal on 18 August.

All four Beatles have a solo in "The End", including Ringo Starr's only drum solo for the Beatles. Starr hated solos and had to be persuaded to do it. The take in which he performed the solo originally had guitar and tambourine accompaniment but other instruments were muted during mixing giving the effect of a drum solo. The additional instruments were restored for a remix on the Anthology 3 CD. The drum solo was used at the beginning of "Get Back" on the album Love.

McCartney, Harrison, and Lennon perform a rotating sequence of three, two-bar guitar solos. The solos begin approximately 53 seconds into the song and end just before the final piano part. Lennon described it in his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone: "There's a nice little bit I played on Abbey Road. Paul gave us each a piece, a little break where Paul plays, George plays and I play."

Answer 3

It's a battle between John Lennon, George Harrison, and Eric Clapton. Eric and George were good friends and he did play on a number of Beatles songs, most notably "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Answer 4

I saw some article saying John, Paul and George play guitar in "the end", though I don't know whether it is true.