Thursday, December 13, 2007

Abbey Road

My fellow Beatles fan and Comrade who took the following pictures of me. We traded cameras and took turns shooting each other.  He mentioned Paul was his favorite Beatle. After his first walk across Abbey Road, which I photographed with his camera, I mentioned to him he wasn't getting it right. After all Paul did the walk barefoot. So we did the shoot over again. He was thrilled at the suggestion doing it barefoot.
The crosswalk every Beatles fan knows about. The Beatles Abbey Road album cover seems simple enough. But in reality it was a full scale production. It is impossible to casually achieve the same perspective as the album cover. In the first place it is a busy street. EMI had police permits to close Abbey Road for The Beatles photo shoot. Secondly the angle achieved for the record cover is from an elevated perspective. Shot from a scaffold erected in the middle of the closed street. So this photo here is about as good as you can get without getting run over.
The roof top that will always associated with The Beatles last public perfomance.
Abbey Road is a major tourist attraction. Fans come here from all points of the compass to see where music history and legends were made.
The address plaque 3 Savile Row. Just as it was in Let It Be, the film.
It was August of 2000 I made my pilgrimage to Abbey Road Studios. There's a photo of The Beatles sitting on this step. But I don't remember it well enough to know who's butt space I'm sitting on.