One crossing, four musicians
George Harrison appears with The Beatles in the Abbey Road cover photograph, taken on 8 August 1969. The four member pages share the same crossing record.
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George Harrison
George Harrison appears with The Beatles in the Abbey Road cover photograph, taken on 8 August 1969. The four member pages share the same crossing record.
← All peopleFollow the geography ↓Cropped from Hugo van Gelderen / Anefo original photograph of George Harrison arriving at Schiphol on 5 June 1964. Original black-and-white tones retained. Cropped to an individual portrait. Resized without enlargement and converted to WebP. The existing People portrait frame may crop the photograph. Source colours retained.
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Abbey Road crossing
George Harrison appears with The Beatles in the Abbey Road cover photograph, taken on 8 August 1969. The four member pages share the same crossing record.
Public road crossing. Studio interiors are separate; no interior admission is implied.
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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.
Abbey Road Studios — Abbey Road cover photography session ↗︎
Abbey Road, London NW8 9DB
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The Beatles record at EMI Studios
Abbey Road Studios states that the Beatles recorded 190 of their 210 songs here between 1962 and 1970.
3 Abbey Road, London NW8 9AY
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The Beatles play their final public performance on the Apple rooftop
The official Beatles account identifies 3 Savile Row as Apple Corps headquarters, the Let It Be studio and the site of the 30 January 1969 rooftop concert.
3 Savile Row, London W1S 3PB
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One crossing, four musicians · Abbey Road crossing
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