The idea for the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road album was initially to call it Everest, after the favourite brand of cigarettes smoked by their engineer Geoff Emerik.
Then the thought of doing a Himalayan cover helped kill the idea, and instead they considered doing the shoot closer to home.
"There's a sketch Paul McCartney did with four little stick men crossing the Zebra," says Brian Southall, author of the history of Abbey Road Studios. On the 8 August 1969 that the Fab Four walked out of No 3 Abbey Road, having finished basic work on what would be their penultimate album.The photographer who took the famous cover shot was the late Iain Macmillan.
One of the most copied covers, a gift every fan ( and not so) wants to have when in London.
Hundreds of fans flocked to Abbey Road in northwest London, singing Beatles songs as they jammed the two-lane street around the zebra crossing in the well-heeled Saint John's Wood neighbourhood.
U2 and GreenDay also had their "Abbey Road" shoot.
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