All About Abbey Road in London

All About Abbey Road in London

Abbey Road, a residential road in St. John’s Wood in north-west London, makes for an unusual tourist attraction. There are very little shops or restaurants on Abbey Road and yet thousands of tourists flock there every week. Once they are there, they disrupt traffic by their picture taken on the zebra crossing in front of Abbey Road Studios.

To understand why, take a look at the cover of 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road. On the cover, the Fab Four are pictured walking across a tree-lined road on a zebra crossing. The picture was taken on 8th August 1969, the album was released on 26th September 1969. Ever since, the zebra crossing has been a popular with Beatles fans from all over the world who want to have their picture taken walking across the iconic zebra crossing.

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