The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today
LONDON - Hundreds of people gathered at the world's most famous zebra crossing on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the day the Beatles created one of the best-known album covers in music history and an image imitated by countless fans ever since.
Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan took just six shots of the group on the crossing, with the fifth used as the cover of the band's 11th studio album, released on Sept. 26 1969. Beatles insider and former Apple Records executive Tony Bramwell said nobody at the time was really aware that 'Abbey Road' would be one of the group's last releases."In cultural terms it's become iconic; the sleeve, the songs, the stories behind the songs," Bramwell told Reuters.
The album was the last to be recorded by all four members of the band together, and it had tracks written by each of them, including 'Come Together' by Lennon, 'Here Comes the Sun' by Harrison, 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' by McCartney, and Starr's 'Octopus's Garden'. Maggie Younis, a 43-year-old from Fort Wayne, Indiana, said she had taken a photograph with McCartney outside the studios 22 years ago when she was on a Beatles walking tour.
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