Abbey Road: Beatles fans gather
to recreate cover shot
BBC News [London, UK],
by
Ella Wills
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
8/8/2019 5:20:40 PM
Thousands of fans made a pilgrimage to London's Abbey Road 50 years after the Beatles walked over its zebra crossing for the cover of the last album the band recorded.
The band was pictured striding across the road the album was named after on 8 August 1969.
Jaime Garri, 61, flew more than 14 hours from Santiago, Chile, to mark the 50th anniversary.
"You have to say thank you to them for giving us such lovely music," he said. The image of John Lennon, Sir Ringo Starr, Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison outside the EMI Studios in St John's Wood is one of music's most iconic moments.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
acesfull 8/8/2019 5:32:49 PM (No. 146714)
A Beatle insider said the story is that the album was complete and they (Beatles and marketing people) were in a meeting discusssing the new LP's title. The marketing people had suggested the name "Everest" and said the Beatles would fly from London to Nepal for the photoshoot. They'd go up Mt. Everest as far as they safely could and be photographed in the snow. It's said that there was a long silence and then Paul said, "Why don't we just step outside the studio and do some pictures andf we'll call it Abbey Road."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 8/8/2019 6:41:24 PM (No. 146761)
A family member recently had the opportunity to record some music in the Abbey Road studio, and they rolled out the exact same equipment used by the Beatles on that album. She is a big fan and was thrilled by the bit of history she was close to.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/8/2019 7:04:02 PM (No. 146788)
8/8? I guess the Beatles were big Hitler fans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Janylou 8/8/2019 7:24:48 PM (No. 146802)
My sophomore year of high school (1964), two classmates were talking about the Beatles in our English class. I said, who are they? I sure found out. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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nwcudagal 8/8/2019 8:13:28 PM (No. 146823)
I was a huge Beatles fan. I have all their albums; some that were with earlier record companies. However, I wore them out. I have so much memorabilia, but none of it is in good shape because at the time I was just obsessed with them, and not thinking about a collection. Trading cards are dog-eared and not so good. However, a son of a friend of mine used my collection in a class project. I also have some Peter and Gordon since I knew that Paul dated Peter's sister (?). I remember exactly where I was when the news said that Paul's wife, Linda, had died. I was very sad. Then I became "woke" when Paul sang to Moochelle, and that ruined my Beatles experience. Forever. I'm sure my stuff will end up in a yard sale someday, or in a landfill. I don't care.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 8/8/2019 9:11:42 PM (No. 146836)
Notice in the original album cover - the "Paul is dead" meme was still active. Bare feet, out of step, wearing a funeral suit, down cigarette. With John leading as Priest in white garments. Total BS, but the myth continued for some time. (Heh - play a certain record backwards, it says "Paul is dead." heh, again) I think at this point, the Beatles loved promoting this joke.
More significantly, perhaps, is that this was practically the death march for the group. "The End" on the Abbey Road album was the last song recorded by all four Beatles. (it was also Ringo's only extended drum solo.)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/8/2019 11:12:59 PM (No. 146859)
I was in Dallas seeing the Beatles during their first U.S.A. tour in 1964. Fabulous show----every concert since pales in comparison. I was in 9th grade. They stayed at the Cabana Hotel, which later was a jail annex for a while. I heard that a renovation of the old structure was in discussion.
My mother was watching Ed Sullivan the night of their TV debut. She called, "You've got to see this!" We both watched, and I was a fan forever. Mother thought they were the bees' knees. I got all their albums until Yellow Submarine, when I was in college. Soul music came along, and I became a fan of that.
To this day I can't drive a car and listen to the Beatles, I am so enthralled and distracted. I am not exaggerating.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 8/8/2019 11:53:07 PM (No. 146866)
What a great thread! Thanks for posting, OP.
#9, I learn something new and wonderful about Dallas every day, and today, you were the reason I learned it. The old Cabana Hotel is about a mile from where I'm posting this. It must have been wonderful to see The Beatles live. I envy you.
I saw Paul McCartney live in 2015. He was more than 70, and yet he played straight through for 3 hours. It was a wonderful night exceeding all my expectations.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 8/9/2019 1:20:20 AM (No. 146892)
#8 - Batman comics issue 222 did a story on the Paul Is Dead theme. In the comic, the story line twist was that the rumors were a way to put the fan focus on Paul, as the other three Beatles were the ones who were actually dead. The book is worth about $400 today in near mint condition.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/9/2019 7:18:10 AM (No. 146977)
stranded in the 60s
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Faithfully 8/9/2019 9:44:37 AM (No. 147133)
I was a fan when they first can on the scene. Their fan base were little girls. When they went psychedelic I was out.
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Faithfully 8/9/2019 9:46:05 AM (No. 147135)
^came on the scene
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It was fifty years ago today .... And what a timeless album from the Beatles' final recordings as a four man group. (Let It Be, released in early 1970, had been recorded months before Abbey Road. John, already departed from the group but keeping quiet, wasn't present at the final Let It Be overdub session, mostly George's new solos on the single "Let It Be," on 4 January 1970.)