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
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