Upon its original release, it did not receive universal critical acclaim. On SeptemAbbey Road, the groupвЂ™s eleventh studio recording, was released. The Abbey Road album would be released seven weeks after the photo shoot, as The BeatlesвЂ™ recording story came towards an end.

That afternoon, The Beatles and George Martin were inside Abbey Road, rather than outside, to resume work in a session for the upcoming album, recording вЂњEnding,вЂќ which would become вЂњThe End.вЂќ The studio time was booked for 2.30pm, so as Mark Lewisohn reported in his Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, to kill time after the photo session, Paul took John back to his Cavendish Avenue house, George Harrison went with Mal Evans to London Zoo, and Ringo Starr went shopping. In 2012, one of the five outtakes sold at auction for ВЈ16,000. McCartney took the lead in choosing the fifth of the transparencies to be used, partly because it was the only one that showed the group walking in exact time together. Perhaps the four most famous men in the world walked crossed the road three times. Linda McCartney was also on hand to take some extra shots, before traffic was stopped by a solitary policeman and MacMillan got on his stepladder to take six images of the group crossing the road. The street sign of Abbey Road that adorned the back cover of the album was taken by MacMillan on a junction with Alexandra Road that no longer exists. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.Before the shoot began, MacMillan, a friend of John Lennon and Yoko OnoвЂ™s, had taken Paul McCartneyвЂ™s initial sketch idea of the potential cover image and added detail of exactly how the famous quartet might look on the crossing. The walls outside the studio are covered in hand-written messages from fans around the world and has to be painted over every two months or so because so many people visit.ДЄ 24/7 live stream of the Abbey Road crosswalk can be seen us on Instagram The road outside EMI Studios, where the band spent the majority of their recording career, has become a tourist attraction fully equipped with a gift shop, but for those in the music industry you can still record there for a mere ВЈ500 - thatвЂ™s $803 Canadian. READ ALSO: Paul McCartney to make Vancouver stop on Freshen Up tour 8, 1980, and Harrison passed away on Nov. #OTD 1969 #TheBeatles turned up at Tittenhurst Park (John's house in Ascot) for what turned out to be their last photo shoot together /G4CHcqP8ic 22, 1969 for what would be their last photo shoot together. The band gathered at LennonвЂ™s house at Tittenhurst Park on Aug. While Abbey Road was the last time The Beatles members were in studio together, it wasnвЂ™t the last photo shoot they experienced together.

Judging by his latest tour, McCartney is alive and well, playing three-hour shows at the age of 77. READ ALSO: Canadian teen who sang MiвЂ™kmaq version of вЂBlackbirdвЂ™ meets Paul McCartneyДЄccording to Louder some of the clues giving way to the theory included the fact that McCartney was out of step with the other three, his eyes were closed and he was holding a cigarette in his right hand despite being left handed. The photo, captured by Iain Macmillan, sparked a number of conspiracy theories after an American newspaper reported McCartney had died in a car accident in 1966 and the man in the photo was a look a like called William Campbell. ItвЂ™s been 50 years to the day that Paul, John, Ringo and George walked across the north London zebra crossing, for the iconic album cover Abbey Road.

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