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
Abbey Road last, though Harrison said "it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line". After the album was released, the "Get Back"/"Let It Be" project was re-examined, and work on it continued into 1970. Therefore, "Let It Be" became the last album to be finished by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before "Abbey Road". By September 1969, after the recording of "Abbey Road", Lennon had formed a new group, the Plastic Ono Band, in part because the Beatles had rejected his song "Cold Turkey". While Harrison worked with such artists as Leon Russell, Doris Troy,