Everest (cigarette) Mount Everest for the album cover. The group, however, did not want to undertake the long trip and travel to Mount Everest for the photo shoot. Paul McCartney drew a sketch with four little stick men crossing the zebra crossing on Abbey Road. The group liked the idea and McCartney suggested they just go outside, take the photo there and name the album after the street. On 8 August 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan took the iconic album cover photograph of the group walking on the zebra crossing outside the studio. In 2009, contraband cigarettes worth 3.1 million US Dollars were
Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles The sleeve features liner notes by George Harrison and there is a photo of Atkins wearing a "Beatle wig" on the back cover. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country Albums charts and No. 112 on the Pop Albums charts. Atkins never recorded with the Gretsch "Country Gentleman" 12-string guitar that was made especially for him and is pictured on the cover. The recording was nominated for Best Instrumental Recording (other than Jazz) at the 1967 Grammy awards. Writing for Allmusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album "an entertaining, if ultimately