Live webcam overlooking the Beatles Abbey Road Zebra Crossing 40th Anniversary
Beatles Abbey-Road
It was forty years ago today, Abbey Road taught the band to play. No, no, that’s not it! However, it is the 40th anniversary of the release of Abbey Road, the Beatle’s legendary final album. Everyone knows the album and the cover. On 8th August 1969, the Beatles crossed the Abbey Road Zebra crossing, making the London Pedestrian crossing, on Abbey Road, the most famous road crossing in the world. Tomorrow,Saturday, 8th August 2009, a special day of events have been planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the famous Beatles Abbey Road Pedestrian picture that was on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road music album.
Only six pictures were taken in all, on Saturday 8th August 1969 and the photo shoot lasted for only 10 minutes. Since then millions of people, from all over the globe, have made a pilgrimage to the Abbey Road pedestrian crossing, close to the Abbey Road Recording studio, and have posed on the crossing to recreate this iconic photo that the Beatles have made so famous. . The Beatles band, Sgt Pepper’s Only Dartboard Band, will be making a guest appearance at the Abbey Road zebra crossing, wearing replicas of the clothes that John, Paul, George and Ringo wore when they posed for that iconic picture for the cover of their Abbey Road music album, 40 years earlier.
