Iain Macmillan Iain Macmillan Iain Stewart Macmillan (20 October 1938 – 8 May 2006) was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for The Beatles' album "Abbey Road" in 1969. After growing up in Scotland, he moved to London to become a professional photographer. He used a photo of Yoko Ono in a book he published in 1966 and was invited by Yoko to photograph her exhibit at Indica Gallery. She introduced him to John Lennon. John invited him to be the photographer for the cover of "Abbey Road". He worked with the Lennons for several years even staying for
The Beatles at Abbey Road and told the company that he would be happy to have the recording released immediately. Recordings made surreptitiously by some visitors to the 1983 show soon became available on bootleg albums. A year after "The Beatles at Abbey Road", the songs that had been unearthed for the presentation were remixed for a planned album, titled "Sessions". The former Beatles initiated legal proceedings to prevent EMI from issuing the album, however, saying that the work was substandard. "Sessions" was scheduled for release in November 1984, but the release was cancelled. The interest in these previously unissued recordings nevertheless confirmed that a