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ONLYCOPYCATS: Glee marks its Beatles
tribute. Right, Rolling Stone put The
Simpsons on the famous crossingHABIT-FORMING: Franciscan monks get in on the act, as do Snoopy and pals
WHO NEXT?:
Time Lord
Peter
Capaldi
and Jenna
Coleman
enlist the
help of two
Daleks to
make up the
numbers
while, right,
Big Bird
leads the
Sesame
Street crewSTARS ALIGN: John, Ringo, Paul and George make
album history. Above, Benny Hill’s versionBy Rachael Bletchly
I
T’S one of the most famous album covers
of all time – and certainly the most
copied. Fifty years ago today John, Paul,
George and Ringo were holding up traffic
on a zebra crossing outside their north
London recording studio to get the
perfect shot for Abbey Road.
The Beatles’ 12th studio album was released
the following month and the striking photo of
the Fab Four striding across the road has
spawned hundreds of copies and parodies in the
half century since.
They’ve been aped – or should that be ripped
off – on a host of other albums, magazine covers
and adverts.
There was the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ naked
version for their Abbey Road EP, and risqué TV
funnyman Benny Hill keeping his trousers
on for once to make the crossing all alone for his
greatest hits LP.
Why did the Big Bird (and his co-stars) cross
the road? To advertise the Sesame Street
compilation album, of course.
Also getting in on the act were a variety of TV
shows, including Snoopy, Glee, The Simpsons and
even Doctor Who, back in the Peter Capaldi and
Jenna Coleman days. They needed two Daleks
to make up the full Fab Four.
Even a group of Fransiscan friars from
Jerusalem followed in The Beatles’ footsteps.
Paul McCartney himself referenced the Abbey
Road cover on his 1993 album Paul Is Live. For
the original image fuelled a bizarre “Paul is dead”
conspiracy theory which had been rife in the
late 1960s.
A rumour began that Macca had died after
crashing his Aston Martin in 1966 and that the
band had replaced him with an impostor.
W
HEN Abbey Road was released,
conspiracy theorists had a field day –
claiming the cover picture repre-
sented a funeral procession. John Lennon dressed
in white was a symbol of mourning in Eastern
religions; Ringo Starr, dressed in black, was the
undertaker; Paul McCartney’s “double” was
barefoot, a reminder that in some cultures bodies
are buried without shoes; and George Harrison,
dressed in denim at the back, was the gravedigger.
Although the release of Abbey Road was
followed with ample evidence that McCartney
was alive and well, what the public didn’t know
was that The Beatles had secretly broken up.
Abbey Road would be the band’s penultimate
studio album, and the group would call it quits
only a year later.
In December 2010, the crossing was Grade II
listed for its “cultural and historical importance”.
It’s still popular with Beatles fans and a
webcam has operated there since 2011.
ABBEY EVER AFTER
50 years ago The Beatles made the world’s most iconic (and copied) album cover
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