-At some point, the album was going to be titled "Everest", after a brand of cigarettes and the cover photo would show Geoffrey Emerick (a recording studio audio engineer) in the Himalayas.
-The famous photo was taken outside the studio, on 8 August 1969 by photographer Iain Macmillan, who was given only ten minutes to take the shot.
-A second version by Iain Macmillan was used on McCartney's solo album Paul Is Live. The man standing on the pavement in the background is Paul Cole, an American tourist who was unaware that he was being photographed until he saw the album cover months later.
-The zebra crossing, still a popular destination for Beatles fans, is no longer in the same location as it was in 1969, having been moved further East in the 1970s. Looking across the street in the direction the Beatles crossed it, the crossing was moved from the left side of the light pole on the destination side of the street to the right side of the pole.
-The Volkswagen Beetle parked next to the zebra crossing belonged to one of the people living in the apartment across from the recording studio. After the album came out, the number plate was stolen repeatedly from the car. In 1986, the car was sold at an auction for $23,000 and is currently on display at the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.
-This cover has become one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history.
Bands who have used similar album covers include Red Hot Chili Peppers's The Abbey Road E.P. (in which the band appears nude, apart from some socks), Paul McCartney's live album Paul Is Live, Beatles parody The Rutles's Shabby Road, The Shadows's Live At Abbey Road LP and Kanye West's Live Orchestration DVD (recorded at Abbey Road studios).-In Danny Boyle's Trainspotting the four main characters walk towards a climactic drug deal processing the "wrong" way across the famous crossing.
-The 1998 Walt Disney movie The Parent Trap featured a brief imitation - including a freeze frame to make it obvious.
I am Sam, which features covers of Beatles songs as its soundtrack, features a scene in which several characters walk across a zebra crossing carrying pink balloons.
-In The Simpsons, Homer's successful barbershop quartet The Be Sharps' second album Bigger Than Jesus included a parody of the cover with the four band members walking on water.
-There is an episode of The Powerpuff Girls called Meet the Beat-Alls, where four of the main villains unite as a super group of villains. At one point in the cartoon, they cross a street in Abbey Road cover art fashion.
-On the back cover of the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell, third edition, the authors in alphabetical order cross Abbey Road on their way to lunch (including UCL professor Martin Raff without shoes). Much of this edition was written in a house just around the corner.
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