recording engineer, later recalled: "John, Paul and George looked like they had gone back in time, like they were kids again, playing together for the sheer enjoyment of it. More than anything, they reminded me of gunslingers, with their guitars strapped on, looks of steely-eyed resolve, determined to outdo one another. Yet there was no animosity, no tension at all – you could tell they were simply having fun." The first two bars are played by McCartney, the second two by Harrison, and the third two by Lennon, then the sequence repeats twice. Each has a distinctive style which McCartney felt reflected their personalities. Immediately after Lennon's third solo, the piano chords of the final line "And in the end ..." begin. Then the orchestration arrangement takes over with a humming chorus and Harrison playing a final guitar solo that ends the song. "The End" was initially intended to be the final track on Abbey Road, but it ended up being followed by "Her Majesty". Although "The End" stands as the last known new recording involving all four members of the Beatles, one additional song, "I Me Mine", was recorded by three members of the group (Lennon being absent due to having privately left in September 1969) in January 1970 for the album Let It Be. The 1996 compilation album Anthology 3 contains a remixed version of "The End", restoring tambourine and guitar overdubs mixed out of the original, and edited to emphasise the guitar solos and orchestral overdub. The track is followed by a variant on the long piano chord that ends "A Day in the Life", concluding the compilation. The drum solo was later used at the beginning of "Get Back" on the 2006 album Love. Musical structure The song commences in A major, with an initial I–IV–II–V–I structure matching the vocals on "Oh, yeah, all right!" This is followed by a iv dim–I pattern (Ddim to A chord) on "dreams tonight." During this, the accompanying bass and one guitar move chromatically from A to B and D, while the second guitar harmonises a minor third higher to reach F. An eight-bar drum solo as a final statement of recognition to their "steady, solid drummer" ends with a crescendo of eighth notes and bass and rhythm guitar in seventh chords to the chant "Love you." The sequential three guitar solos rotate through I7 (A7 chord)–IV7 (D7 chord) changes