Aug/091
40th Birthday of Abbey Road
As the story goes, Lennon said: "Why don't we go outside and take a picture for the cover?". Today is 40 years since the famous picture was taken and the name of the album changed from Everest to Abbey Road.
Only Paul, Ringo and Tony Bramwell are still alive from the people who were there when the picture was taken, but even today the whole thing carries on, hundreds of tourists go and visit the zebra crossing every hour. They all congregate on each side of the road, waiting for a gap in the constant traffic to step on the stripes and try to clone the work of Iain Macmillan. Sometimes, bored of waiting, they try to stop the traffic and big differences emerge between the drivers and the photographers, which many times end up in the police having to walk around the area to keep things calmed.
If you want to check the crossing from home and have a good laugh, just have a look at the live webcam installed on the studio entrance, on the weekends it is just incredible.
I saw it on ALT1040
August 8th, 2009
y aun asi aun es una de las cosas que no he hecho en londres!! mmmm un dia de estos vamos i lo hacemos!! jaja voluntarios?