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
Abbey Road "Sgt. Pepper"" and stating, "That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite ... seems potent testimony that no, they've far from lost it, and no, they haven't stopped trying." While covering the Rolling Stones' 1969 American tour, Robert Christgau reported that although everyone had been "putting down "Abbey Road"", he and fellow journalist Ellen Willis had grown to love the record: "Damned if she isn't right—flawed but fine. Because the world is round it turns her on. Charlie Watts tells us he likes it too." Many critics have since cited "Abbey