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
Zebra crossing Grade II listed building status. There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the "non"-existence of God; the novel says, "Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing." The La Paz traffic zebras is a team of young people who dress in zebra costumes and dance in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia in order to make drivers