Saturday, 8. August 2009

Revisiting Abbey Road 40 years on


Forty years ago on Saturday, one of the pop world's most infamous and imitated album covers was shot in a little side street in north London.

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.

Abbey Road

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