How The Beatles Blended One Great Song into Another

Transitions between songs are key to an album’s flow.

Mark Ali
The Riff
Published in
5 min readFeb 8

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A close-up of the tracks on a vinyl record, disc 1 of The Beatles’ White Album
“Vinyl Tracks” (© Mark Ali)

Great albums flow well from one song to another. We all know this.

The sequencing of the songs on an album is important. Presumably, the artist and producer put a lot of thought into ordering the songs in just the right way.

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Mark Ali
The Riff

I’m a writer, a photographer, a music lover, and a professional ice sculptor. I’m kidding about that last thing. (View my portfolio at: markaliphotos.com)