|
The picture of John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison and Ringo Starr striding over the pedestrian
crossing on Abbey Road was taken outside the EMI Recording
Studios where they made the 1969 album of the same name.
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.
The picture shows Lennon in a white suit leading the group
across the road. Starr wears a black suit while McCartney is
barefoot, out of step and holding a cigarette. Harrison is in
blue denim. A Volkswagen Beetle is parked in the background.
On Thursday, the Beetle was back in position while traffic
crawled along the crowded street as dozens of fans paraded on
the black and white painted crossing for souvenir photos.
'Abbey Road', which was voted the best Beatles album by readers
of Rolling Stone in 2009, was the only one of the group's
original British albums to show neither the band's name nor a
title on the cover.
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'.
Less than a year after 'Abbey Road' was released, rock music's
best-selling band had split up, ending a decade-long musical
revolution that transformed the 1960s and laid the foundations
of modern popular culture.
The studios, which were later renamed Abbey Road, and the zebra
crossing were granted protected status by the government in
2010.
(Editing by Stephen Addison)
[© 2019 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2019 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.
|
|
