The rock community has come out in force to salute Britain's late-Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8th at age 97.
The shortest Beatles song in the band's catalogue was Paul McCartney's 23-second paean to the Queen, titled “Her Majesty.” At the time of Abbey Road's original release in September 1969, McCartney spoke about the inspiration for the set's only fully acoustic track: “I don't know, y'know, I was in Scotland, and I was just writing this little tune. I can never tell, like, how tunes come out. I wrote this tune and it happened to start off 'Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl. . . ' I mean, you could refer, like they refer to a girl as, y'know, 'Lady,' or 'girl,' y'know, like 'Lady Madonna,' or just some sort of name you call a girl. It could be that, too, y'know, 'Her Majesty' (exaggerated accent) worshiping your girlfriend or your wife.”
ROCKERS REMEMBER QUEEN ELIZABETH II