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
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