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Article: THE BIG PICTURE.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2009
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FORTY years ago on Saturday last, at 11.35am, The Beatles walked across a zebra crossing in an innocuous north London street.
The photoshoot for their new Abbey Road album happened just yards from the eponymous recording studios and took ten minutes - only six frames were taken by the photographer, Ian Macmillan, who was perched on a stepladder.
It has since become one of the most iconic covers in history for two reasons - no album cover has inspired more imitations, and none has spawned such a mass of conspiracy theories.
For Beatles obsessives with fevered imaginations, it was ultimate proof of the bizarre theory of the time - that Paul ...