Happy 52nd Birthday to the Abbey Road album cover! This is one of the most famous, if not THE most famous, photographs in the history of the record cover art designs and was taken 52 years ago today.
The photographer was Iain MacMillan. On 8 August 1969, he stood on a step ladder in the middle of the road to shoot the cover of what would be turn out to be the last recorded album by The Beatles. Appropriately, it would be named after the street where their recording studio was located. The photo showed the band crossing the street while walking away from the studio. There's another photo from their 50th anniversary album in 2019 which showed them crossing the street in the opposite direction.
The photo shoot lasted ten minutes, and MacMillan took only six shots from his perch while the traffic was held up by a policeman, from which Paul picked the cover.
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