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Analyzing the Iconic Beatles' Abbey Road Album Cover
Fab Four lore... The Beatles were falling apart in 1969. During the disastrous 'Let It Be' sessions, the working title for their LP was 'Everest', for engineer Geoff Emerick's favourite brand of cigarettes, with plans initially called for the band members to charter a private jet to the Himalayas and shoot the cover photo there. With EMI desperate for product, and the group fanning its last few creative embers, they settled on a far simpler and closer concept: a shot of the quartet (George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon) strolling through the crosswalk outside their studio on Abbey Road. Around 11:30AM on August 8, 1969, with traffic blocked, and photographer Iain Macmillan toting a ladder into the middle of the street, they got the photo shoot done in roughly 10 minutes... but no one noticed the fifth Beatle in the background...
"I remember we hired a policeman to hold up traffic while I was up on the ladder taking the pictures," Macmillan later told The Guardian. "The whole idea, I must say, was Paul McCartney's. A few days before the shoot, he drew a sketch of how he imagined the cover, which we executed almost exactly that day. I took a couple of shots of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road one way. We let some of the traffic go by and then they walked across the road the other way, and I took a few more shots. The one eventually chosen for the cover was number five of six. It was the only one that had their legs in a perfect 'V' formation, which is what I wanted stylistically."
The Abbey Road cover design was kept simple by not including the band's name or the album's title, which ironically fuelled more interest in the LP: fans focussed on the incidental details of the shot (i.e. Paul McCartney wasn't wearing shoes; the license plate on a car in the background reading 'LMW 281F'; the shadowed pedestrian eyeing the Beatles' stroll from the distance).
Post Note: Paul McCartney celebrated his 77th birthday on June 18, 2019
"I remember we hired a policeman to hold up traffic while I was up on the ladder taking the pictures," Macmillan later told The Guardian. "The whole idea, I must say, was Paul McCartney's. A few days before the shoot, he drew a sketch of how he imagined the cover, which we executed almost exactly that day. I took a couple of shots of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road one way. We let some of the traffic go by and then they walked across the road the other way, and I took a few more shots. The one eventually chosen for the cover was number five of six. It was the only one that had their legs in a perfect 'V' formation, which is what I wanted stylistically."
The Abbey Road cover design was kept simple by not including the band's name or the album's title, which ironically fuelled more interest in the LP: fans focussed on the incidental details of the shot (i.e. Paul McCartney wasn't wearing shoes; the license plate on a car in the background reading 'LMW 281F'; the shadowed pedestrian eyeing the Beatles' stroll from the distance).
Post Note: Paul McCartney celebrated his 77th birthday on June 18, 2019
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Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin
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Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis
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Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius
Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell
Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder
Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber
Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown
Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner
Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath
Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison
You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals
People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray
The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp
When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race
If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon
The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan
The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery. - Martin Winterkorn
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
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