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 in Hamburg in June 1966, staying at the Tremsbüttel castle (Schlosstrasse 10), and played two concerts in the Ernst-Merck-Halle on 26 and 27 June. Lennon later said, "I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg". Lennon made the door of Jäger-Passage at Wohlwillstrasse 22 famous when he posed in front of it for a photo which was later used on the covers of the "Rock 'n' Roll" and "Rock 'n' Roll Sessions" albums. The photo was taken by Jürgen Vollmer, during the time The Beatles were playing at the Top Ten club. Individual Beatles later commented