"Richard and the Drifters (later Cliff Richard and the Shadows) recorded ""Move It"" there, and later pop music material. Abbey Road Studios is closely associated with the Beatles, who recorded almost all of their albums and hits there between 1962 and 1970 using the four-track REDD mixing console designed by Peter K. Burkowitz. The Beatles named their 1969 album ""Abbey Road"", after the street where the studio is located. The studio was renamed Abbey Road Studios in 1970 after the Beatles album had made it famous. Iain Macmillan took the album's cover photograph outside the studios, with the result that"
"The album's cover photograph shows the four group members walking across the zebra crossing just outside the studio entrance. As a result of its association with The Beatles, since 1969 this part of Abbey Road has been featured on the London tourism circuit. In December 2010 the crossing was given Grade II Listed Building status by English Heritage. The zebra crossing featured on the Beatles cover, as well as the crossing directly north of it, have become popular photo-opportunity areas, despite the road still being a busy thoroughfare for traffic. The Beatles album cover has been parodied many times over"
"Robert Whitaker (photographer) Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a renowned British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, and for his photographs of the rock group Cream, which were used in the Martin Sharp-designed collage on the cover of their 1967 LP ""Disraeli Gears"". Whitaker was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England in 1939, but described himself as ""one part Aussie lad"" since his father and his grandfather were both Australian. According to Whitaker, his grandfather built the Princes Bridge in Melbourne. Although he has worked mostly"
"he couldn't"". On 8 August 1969, around 11:30am, Macmillan climbed up a stepladder about 10 feet in the air in the middle of Abbey Road and took six pictures of the Beatles crossing the street. A policeman was hired to control traffic. The Beatles usually came to the studio around 2–3pm so the earlier hour was chosen to avoid fans. First Photo. John leads the group from left to right followed by Ringo, Paul and George. They kept this order throughout all the photos. There is a Mercedes pulling out of the studio behind them. John is looking away from"
"20 September 2011 following a long illness aged 71. He left a widow and three children. Robert Whitaker (photographer) Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a renowned British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, and for his photographs of the rock group Cream, which were used in the Martin Sharp-designed collage on the cover of their 1967 LP ""Disraeli Gears"". Whitaker was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England in 1939, but described himself as ""one part Aussie lad"" since his father and his grandfather were both Australian."
"Road"" which was a parody of the Beatles photo. In the 1980s, his work was on exhibit in the US, Britain and Europe. The BBC used some of his photos in the series ""The Rock 'n' Roll Years"". After the death of his mother, Macmillan moved back to Carnoustie, Scotland. On 22 July 1993, he photographed Paul McCartney at Abbey Road on the zebra crossing, this time with only an Old English Sheepdog. The shot was used on the cover of ""Paul is Live"" album. On 8 May 2006, at the age of 67, Macmillan died of lung cancer. The"
"found in Australia, Iceland, Malaysia, India, New Zealand and the United States. A zebra crossing appears on the cover of The Beatles' ""Abbey Road"" album. It made it a tourist attraction, and it has been incorporated into the Abbey Road Studios logo. Since the Abbey Road photo was taken, zigzag lines at the kerb and in the centre of the road have been added to all zebra crossings. The band Shriekback's album ""Sacred City"" contains an entire song, ""Beatles Zebra Crossing?"", about the Abbey Road zebra crossing and its status as a tourist attraction. English Heritage has given this crossing"
"Robert Davidson (photographer) Robert Davidson is a Scottish photographer, best known for the iconic image of Frank Zappa sitting on a toilet in a London hotel room in 1967. Born in Dundee, he left school at seventeen years old to live in Paris, where he met the ""Time Life"" photographer Emil Cadoo. Davidson returned to London two years later and began to work in fashion photography, taking the first test shots of Twiggy. In 1965, Davidson became friends with Tony Secunda, manager of The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and The Move. Appointed Secunda’s official photographer, Robert photographed The Rolling Stones,"
"the nearby zebra crossing has become a place of pilgrimage for Beatles fans. It has been a tradition for visitors to pay homage to the band by writing on the wall in front of the building even though it is painted over every three months. December 2010, the zebra crossing at Abbey Road was given a Grade II listed status. Pink Floyd recorded most of their late 1960s to mid-1970s albums here, returning only in 1988 for mixing and overdubbing subsequent albums. Notable producers and sound engineers who have worked at Abbey Road include George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Norman ""Hurricane"""
"Harry Benson Harry James Benson (born 2 December 1929) is a Scottish photographer. His photographs of celebrities have been published in magazines. He has published several books and won a number of prominent awards. Benson was born in Glasgow and raised in Troon, Scotland. His pictures have appeared in ""Life"",""Vanity Fair"", and ""The New Yorker"". He took over a hundred cover shots for ""People."" Benson was assigned to travel with The Beatles on their inaugural American tour in 1964. One of his most recognisable images shows the band in a gleeful pillow fight at the hotel Georges V in Paris."
"Dezo Hoffmann Dezider Hoffmann (most often credited as Dezo Hoffmann or Dežo Hoffmann, 1912 - 1986) was a Slovak photographer, photojournalist and cameraman from Czechoslovakia. He earned international acclaim in the 1960s, shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Kinks, The Shadows, Tom Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Omar Sharif and Pink Floyd. Hoffmann was born on 24 May 1912 in Banská Štiavnica, Kingdom of Hungary now Slovakia. After studying"
"posters were also made.<ref name=""Tobacco/ Cigarette Ads of the 1960s""></ref> ""Abbey Road"" is the eleventh studio album by English rock band the Beatles and was released on 26 September 1969. Geoff Emerick, the band's audio engineer, used to smoke Everest cigarettes and hence the group had decided to name the album after the brand of cigarette and title it either ""Mount Everest"", ""Everest"" or ""Ever Rest"" (since packets had a silhouette of Mount Everest on them and the Beatles liked the imagery). Originally the band intended to take a private plane over to the Himalayas to shoot a photograph of"
"UK and US, it initially received mixed reviews, some critics describing its music as inauthentic and bemoaning the production's artificial effects. Many critics now view the album as the Beatles' best and rank it as one of the greatest albums of all time. In particular, George Harrison's contributions, ""Something"" and ""Here Comes the Sun"", are considered to be among the best songs he wrote for the group. The album's cover, which features the four band members walking across a zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios, has become one of the most famous and imitated images in the history of popular"
"two are: The dog appearing on the cover is Arrow, one of the offspring of Martha, the sheepdog that was the inspiration for the title of the song ""Martha My Dear"". The cover photo is from the ""Abbey Road"" cover photoshoot by photographer Iain Macmillan. There are differences between this and the photograph used for the ""Abbey Road"" cover; most notably, the taxi present in the ""Abbey Road"" cover photograph does not feature here. The retouching was done by CGI artist Erwin Keustermans, who erased the Beatles and put in McCartney and the dog, taken from 35 mm pictures by"
"Robert Freeman (photographer) Robert Freeman (born 1936) is a photographer and graphics designer who is best-known for his work with the Beatles, shooting some of the band's most recognizable images featured on several of their album covers. From 1963-1966, he worked extensively with the group and did the photography and design on five of the their album sleeves released consecutively on the Parlophone label in the UK, as well as on several albums on Capitol Records in the US and on various labels in other countries. Freedman designed the end credit sequences for the Beatles' first two films and some"
"be good publicity for the zoo to have the Beatles pose outside the insect house for the cover photography of the album. However, the society turned down Martin's offer, and instead, Angus McBean was asked to take the distinctive colour photograph of the group looking down over the stairwell inside EMI's London headquarters in Manchester Square. Martin was to write later: ""We rang up the legendary theatre photographer Angus McBean, and bingo, he came round and did it there and then. It was done in an almighty rush, like the music. Thereafter, though, the Beatles' own creativity came bursting to"
"four images, titled ""Wood Face"", ""Wool Face"", ""Triangle Face"" and ""Sun Face"", which appeared on the front of the Northern Songs sheet music for each of the album's songs. The LP's back cover included a photograph of the Beatles, in Riley's description, ""shaded by the hip modesty of sunglasses and cigarette smoke"". The photo was part of a series taken by Robert Whitaker during the filming at Abbey Road on 19 May and demonstrated the Beatles' adoption of fashions from boutiques that had recently opened in Chelsea, rather than the Carnaby Street designers they had favoured previously. From these Chelsea"
"by Lennon in ""Across the Universe"" – placed behind him. The Maharishi encouraged his students to present their best ""cosmic smiles"" to the camera. The photo took half an hour to complete while the participants sat facing the bright morning sun. In 2009, ""The Hindu"" described the result as ""one of the most iconic photographs in the history of rock 'n' roll"". For the Beatles' public image, their attire contrasted with the modern, psychedelic clothing they had worn on arrival from London. The photo and others from the shoot were used in Lapham's cover article for ""The Saturday Evening Post"","
"Astrid Kirchherr Astrid Kirchherr (born 20 May 1938) is a German photographer and artist and is well known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer), and her photographs of the band's original members – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best – during their early days in Hamburg. Kirchherr met artist Sutcliffe in the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg in 1960, where he was playing bass with the Beatles, and was later engaged to him, before his death in 1962. Although Kirchherr has taken very few photographs since 1967,"
"was about Francie Swartz [sic]."" On Sunday, 28 July 1968, the Beatles decided to spend what became known as ""A Mad Day Out"", being photographed at several random locations around London. Schwartz was given the task of picking suitable photographic sites. War photographer Don McCullin was the primary cameraman, with additional photographers Ronald Fitzgibbon, Stephen Goldblatt, Tom Murray, and Beatles friend and Apple executive Tony Bramwell coming along as well. Beatles' assistant Mal Evans also took pictures. Ono and Schwartz were also present. In February 2010, Tom Murray unearthed many of the ""Mad Day Out"" photographs and put them on"
"Tessa Benson. Harry also has a daughter Michelle (Whalen) Dal Pos, (born Susanna Sidall) with Pauline (Siddall) Baker that precedes his marriage to Gigi. Harry Benson Harry James Benson (born 2 December 1929) is a Scottish photographer. His photographs of celebrities have been published in magazines. He has published several books and won a number of prominent awards. Benson was born in Glasgow and raised in Troon, Scotland. His pictures have appeared in ""Life"",""Vanity Fair"", and ""The New Yorker"". He took over a hundred cover shots for ""People."" Benson was assigned to travel with The Beatles on their inaugural American"
"Varley spent time in Northern Ireland during the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, famously taking the photo of a church’s cross surrounded by barbed wire. He also was one of the first British photographers on the ground in Nigeria during the Biafra civil war. He took photos of children during the conflict, which were commonly used in Britain when referring to the conflict. He also attended The Beatles concerts, where he took professional photographs. From 1966 onwards, Varley covered every FIFA World Cup until 1982. He agreed with The Daily Mirror that he would take"
"also photographed ""The Book of London"" (1966), Yoko appears on page 181 presenting a demonstration of ""Handkerchief Piece"". The photo shows Yoko and three others wearing handkerchiefs tied over their mouths. She commissioned him to photograph her exhibit at the Indica Gallery in St. James's, London. On 9 November 1966 John Lennon met Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery, and later on she introduced him to Macmillan. In 1969 John invited him to photograph the ""Abbey Road"" cover. The Beatles recorded most of their music at the EMI Studios on Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London. They decided to name"
"the Beatles in early 1969. Photographs of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones production ""Rock and Roll Circus"" attracted the interest of Beatles consigliere Neil Aspinall, who invited Russell to Twickenham Studios, where the group was making ""Let It Be"". Russell's photographs ended up on the cover and gatefold of the LP, the last the Beatles released. . . . Russell's photographs show four men trying to rescue their fading musical marriage."" Russell was among three photographers at the final formal photo session of the Beatles on August 22, 1969. This was held at Tittenhurst Park, a home then owned"
"Linda McCartney Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (""née"" Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American musician, photographer, and animal rights activist. She was married to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. McCartney was a professional photographer of celebrities and contemporary musicians. Her photos were also published in the book ""Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era"" in 1992. Linda married McCartney in 1969 at Marylebone register office in London and thereafter went to St John's Wood Church for a blessing. Her daughter, Heather Louise, from her first marriage to Melville See, was adopted by her"
"1964. During this period, Avedon also created two well known sets of portraits of The Beatles. The first, taken in mid to late 1967, became one of the first major rock poster series, and consisted of five psychedelic portraits of the group — four heavily solarized individual color portraits and a black-and-white group portrait taken with a Rolleiflex camera and a normal Planar lens. The next year he photographed the much more restrained portraits that were included with ""The Beatles"" LP in 1968. Among the many other rock bands photographed by Avedon, in 1973 he shot Electric Light Orchestra with"
"also made an 8mm colour film during this first Beatles assignment, which must be the first ever colour film taken of them, also featuring many scenes actually shot by the Beatles. His photo collection of the Beatles is shown in the Egri Road Beatles Múzeum in Hungary since 2015. It is said that Paul McCartney had declared him the world's best photographer. During the following years Hoffmann's famous photos of The Beatles attracted the attention of many other stars. He was regarded as a ""nice chap"" who was appreciated and welcomed wherever he went despite his strong foreign accent. Most"
"such as wars, amongst them Biafra in 1968, and victims of the African AIDS epidemic. His hard-hitting coverage of the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland conflict is particularly highly regarded. He also took the photographs of Maryon Park in London which were used in Michelangelo Antonioni's film ""Blowup"", In 1968, his Nikon camera stopped a bullet intended for him. Also in 1968, on 28 July, he was invited to photograph the Beatles, then at the height of their fame and in the midst of recording ""The White Album"". These sessions, made at several London locations, have become known as"
"a few times. The third injury was serious, leaving him without memory for several months. After recovery he moved to England and joined the squadron of Czechoslovak pilots flying with the RAF during World War II. After the war he remained in London, working for various newspapers and magazines. In 1955 he began his collaboration with Record Mirror magazine, which was the start of his career photographing show-business celebrities. In 1962 he went to Liverpool to shoot an unknown but promising group - The Beatles. Mutual appreciation and sympathy led to a long-lasting relationship between Hoffmann and the group. Dezo"
"in 1965 to take still photographs of The Beatles during the making of their film ""Help!"". During the digitisation of the Michael Peto Collection, which is held by Archive Services, University of Dundee, in 2002, 500 previously unpublished photographs of the Beatles taken during the making of ""Help!"" were reported to have been uncovered. His photographs became known for their candid and expressive quality. Peto also photographed several prominent British political figures of the 1950s and 1960s including Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. He also photographed world leaders such as Golda Meir and Nikita Khrushchev. He"
"Rowland Scherman Rowland Scherman is an American photographer. Rowland Scherman was born in NY in 1937. He studied at Oberlin College, and was dark room apprentice at ""Life"" magazine. He was the first photographer for the newly formed Peace Corps in 1961. His photographs appeared in ""Life"", ""Look"", ""Time"", ""National Geographic"", ""Paris Match"" and ""Playboy"", among many others, and he photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, the Beatles first US concert, and Woodstock. He won a Grammy Award in 1968 for his photograph cover of ""Bob Dylan's"
"David Redfern David Redfern (7 June 1936 – 22 October 2014) was an English photographer specialising in music photography. He worked as a photographer for 45 years and had over 10,000 pictures in his collection including photos of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. In 1999 he published a book about his life called ""The Unclosed Eye"". Redfern was born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and began his career photographing jazz festivals such as the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in Beaulieu, Hampshire. He was a regular visitor to the Marquee Club and to Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the 1960s, where he photographed Miles"
"pictures were used as backdrops for non-appearing artists and the chart rundown. He continued until 1973, missing only six shows in that time, in the process photographing every single act that entered the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart, except for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Often he would be dispatched to get a shot of an absent act, and was known for his tenacity in gaining photo opportunities against all odds. Goodwin first photographed The Beatles in 1963 at The Apollo in Manchester, and went on to have a close relationship with the band. In 2007 Yoko Ono"