Fab Four devotees make pilgrimage to St John’s Wood to reenact 1969 album cover
In 1969, when Iain MacMillan climbed a ladder on the corner of Abbey Road and Grove End Road and took a picture of the Beatles, he probably wouldn’t have predicted that exactly half a century later hundreds of the band’s fans would be jostling for position on the same zebra crossing and trying to recreate it.
On the 50th anniversary of the photograph, Beatles enthusiasts made the pilgrimage to NW8 from around the world, as lookalike band the Fab Four stopped traffic on Abbey Road at 11:38 on Thursday morning, the exact time the cover shots were supposed to have been taken.
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