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Abbey Road crossing

Abbey Road, London NW8 9DB
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The Beatles' zebra crossing on Abbey Road, London

Exact Abbey Road crossing; cropped location photograph.
Photograph: John Darch / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source & credits

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1969

Album covers · 1969 · The Beatles

Abbey Road ↗︎

The Beatles cross Abbey Road for the album cover

Iain Macmillan took six photographs from a stepladder while police briefly held traffic outside EMI Studios on 8 August 1969.

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Abbey Road crossing

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Album-cover photograph

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