"Come Together" is a Beatles song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney. It opens the album Abbey Road, released on 26 September 1969, and was recorded from 21 July that year at EMI Studio Three, produced by George Martin. Built on a swampy bass riff and a Fender Rhodes figure by Paul McCartney, with George Harrison's distorted guitar and a Les Paul coda solo, it is an up-tempo blues-rock number that Lennon called funky and bluesy. It is based on Chuck Berry's 1956 "You Can't Catch Me", with the "flattop" lines altered, and Berry's publisher, Big Seven Music, sued over the similarity; the case was settled out of court in 1973.
In the UK, the song was issued as a double A-side with George Harrison's "Something" on 31 October 1969 and reached No. 4. In the US it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week, the Beatles' 18th Billboard No. 1. Rolling Stone placed it ninth on its 2010 list of the greatest songs, and Ringo Starr named it his favourite Beatles song. Covers include versions by Ike & Tina Turner, Aerosmith and Arctic Monkeys.
