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 "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