It was forty years ago today, on August 8th of 1969 at 11.30 in the morning, that The Beatles walked the zebra crossing – very close to the Abbey Road Studios in which they have recorded almost all of their songs. One of the six photos taken while they did that, became the front cover of their album Abbey Road, the most famous album cover in the history of pop music.
For forty years since that day, people have been replicating those famous couple of footsteps while having themselves photographed. Every single day. The Abbey Road Studios even have a live webcam pointed at the crossing 24 hours a day. Really remarkable that one album cover can do that. I mean, for instance, you don’t see people replicating the Nirvana ‘Nevermind’-cover each time you visit the swimming pool…..
I visited Abbey Road last year and of course I intended to walk the crossing myself. But when I got there I saw several groups of Beatles’ pilgrim fans swarming the Abbey Road crossing. I decided I wouldn’t look cool doing the same thing as everybody else, but being the rebel I am, I did it anyway.
It felt like walking any other crossing… (I later learned that the crossing has been moved a bit since 1969, for traffic safety reasons, and it has been repainted a couple of times on top of that, so maybe that’s why the energy of the crossing had changed to average zebra crossing-level? 
). And apart from that, the famous ubercool Abbey Road Studios were actually just a mansion behind a fence….
But still, I found Abbey Road to be a magical place: so much of the greatest music has been recorded and conceived there. Hard to find other buildings in the world where so many creative masterpieces were made.
Anyway, I wrote and recorded a song as a tribute. A very Beatlesque song, just how I like my songs. I called it ‘Abbey Road’ in a burst of creativity of my own…. I released it about two months ago on my album ‘Frequently Flying Music Chairs’.
Here it is, hope you like it: [display_podcast]
If you should like it, you could of course buy it (or the whole album) at CD Baby, iTunes or Amazon.
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