McCartney Times

 

It’s one of the most iconic album covers of all time: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr strolling across a zebra-striped street called Abbey Road in St John’s Wood, north London.

It is an image as memorable as the moon landing – and one copied by tourists on a daily basis. (Even a few bands have paid homage, most notably Booker T & The MGs.)

Ironically, that picture was a last-minute decision. During the recording of what was to be their swan song, The Beatles toyed with several titles, and Everest, a reference to the brand of cigarettes their late chief engineer, Geoff Emerick, smoked, was the favourite.

So Ringo said, ‘Why don’t we just shoot the cover outside and call it Abbey Road?’ Like many a Ringo suggestion, it won out.

“But the band decided they didn’t want to trek to the top of Mount Everest to shoot the cover,” Emerick told us, with a laugh whne we spoke to him in 2014. “So Ringo said, ‘Why don’t we just shoot the cover outside and call it Abbey Road?’ Like many a Ringo suggestion, it won out.”

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Source: “For the first time, John and Paul knew that George had risen to their level” – Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick track-by-track interview on Abbey Road | MusicRadar