The Beatles Abbey Road LP Cover
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"At some point, the album was going to be titled Everest after the brand of cigarettes I used 
to smoke," recalls Geoff Emerick. The idea included a cover photo in the Himalayas but by the 
time the group was to take the photo they decided to call it Abbey Road and take the photo 
outside the studio on 8 August 1969. The cover designer was Apple Records creative Director 
Kosh. The cover photograph was taken by photographer Iain Macmillan. Macmillan was given only 
ten minutes around 11:30 that morning to take the photo. That cover photograph has since become 
one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history. McCartney is 
bare-footed and out of step with the other three. The man standing on the pavement in the 
background is Paul Cole (1911? - 13 February 2008, an American tourist unaware he had been 
photographed until he saw the album cover months later. The zebra crossing today remains a 
popular destination for Beatles fans.