Abbey Road "we didn't need to write the band's name on the cover ... They were the most famous band in the world". The front cover design, a photograph of the group on a zebra crossing, was based on ideas sketched by McCartney, and taken on 8 August 1969 outside EMI Studios in Abbey Road. At 11:35 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo whilst he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the camera. Macmillan took six photographs, which McCartney later examined with a magnifying glass before deciding which of
Abbey Road last, though Harrison said "it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line". After the album was released, the "Get Back"/"Let It Be" project was re-examined, and work on it continued into 1970. Therefore, "Let It Be" became the last album to be finished by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before "Abbey Road". By September 1969, after the recording of "Abbey Road", Lennon had formed a new group, the Plastic Ono Band, in part because the Beatles had rejected his song "Cold Turkey". While Harrison worked with such artists as Leon Russell, Doris Troy,