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    THE BEATLES

    Sep 19, 2019 3 minutes
    By Paul Moody

    Abbey Road APPLE CORPS

    10/10

    ON the morning of August 8, 1969, the photographer Iain Macmillan took precisely six pictures of the four Beatles walking in single file across the zebra crossing opposite EMI Studios for the sleeve of the band’s 11th, and final, studio album. However, what seemed like a penny-pinching alternative for an album tentatively entitled ‘Everest’ – named in tribute to sound engineer Geoff Emerick’s favourite brand of cigarette, with a potential cover shoot in the Himalayas – was in fact all

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