One of the few remaining original "Abbey Road" signs pictured 1998. Secondly, the area was redeveloped in 1972 to make way for the Alexandra and Ainsworth housing estate, which opened in 1978. First of all, Beatles scholars Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn and Adam Smith worked out that the location of the sign was at the OTHER end of the road, at the junction of Abbey Road and Alexandra Road, near to South Hampstead station. The back cover photo is taken at the other end of Abbey RoadĪnyone looking for the street sign that’s pictured on the back cover of Abbey Road will have a tough job.Paul McCartney looked at the contact sheet and it was decided that frame five was the best, with all four musicians marching boldly across the road. The Fab Four crossed the road back and forth three times as Macmillan fired off a shot each time. A policeman halted the traffic as Macmillan climbed up a stepladder in the middle of the road. Designer John Kosh claimed that EMI bosses were furious, but argued: “The biggest band in the world, you don’t have to say who they are - everyone knows who they are.”Ī post shared by The Beatles traffic wasn’t the same 50 years ago, but Abbey Road was still a busy thoroughfare, which meant that photographer Iain Macmillan only had a short time to get his shot on his Hasselblad camera. When a plan was floated to take a cover photo in the foothills of the Himalayas to illustrate the title, the band went off the idea and instead went with the easiest plan possible - have the picture taken outside the studio and call it Abbey Road!įor the only time in their career, The Beatles presented the world with an album cover that didn’t feature their name, or the title of the LP at all. One idea was to call it “Everest” after the cigarettes that engineer Geoff Emerick smoked during the sessions. The album wasn’t going to be called Abbey Road at allĪs the sessions for the album came to an end, the four Beatles discussed a title for the record.That’s actually a Docklands Light Railway station in East London, miles away!
The postcode for Abbey Road studios is NW8 9AY - if you go looking for the crossing near the Abbey Road station on the London Underground map, you’d be way off.
The crossing is situated at the southern-most point of Abbey Road, at the junction with Grove End Road, in the St John’s Wood area of North West London.
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