Abbey Road Studios Richard and the Drifters (later Cliff Richard and the Shadows) recorded "Move It" there, and later pop music material. Abbey Road Studios is closely associated with the Beatles, who recorded almost all of their albums and hits there between 1962 and 1970 using the four-track REDD mixing console designed by Peter K. Burkowitz. The Beatles named their 1969 album "Abbey Road", after the street where the studio is located. The studio was renamed Abbey Road Studios in 1970 after the Beatles album had made it famous. Iain Macmillan took the album's cover photograph outside the studios, with the result that
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