Meet people from all over the World
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: Abbey Road 40th anniversary  (Read 12547 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Wonderland

  • Getting Better
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 329
  • I'm as crazy as you want me to be
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2009, 06:50:30 PM »

Look via the webcam on the Abbey Road crossing. It's pretty busy.

http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/


That's dead cool. ^_^

Mairi

  • That Means a Lot
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 7934
  • The owls are not what they seem
Abbey Road Cover Photo Anniversary
« Reply #21 on: August 09, 2009, 10:31:14 PM »

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkoMq55rSZL9DB1T_FCi3_JfiStwD99UO4EG2

Beatles fans swarm Abbey Road on album anniversary

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER – 1 day ago

LONDON — Hundreds of Beatles fans swarmed Abbey Road on Saturday, singing songs and snarling traffic to mark 40 years since John, Paul, George and Ringo strode across the leafy north London street and into the history books on iconic pop photos.

The famous photo graced the cover of the Fab Four's "Abbey Road," the last album recorded together, and shows the bandmates walking purposefully across the zebra-striped asphalt.

It remains one of music's best-known album covers, endlessly imitated and parodied. Although the shoot itself only took a few minutes, so carefully studied was the cover for signs and symbolism that some die-hard fans came to the conclusion that Paul McCartney — who appears barefoot and out of step with the rest — had secretly died.

McCartney himself made fun of the bizarre conspiracy in the title of his 1993 concert album, "Paul is Live."

Conspiracies aside, the ease with which fans can imitate the scene has drawn throngs of tourists to the site every day, turning the street into "a shrine to the Beatles," said Richard Porter, who owns the nearby Beatles Coffee Shop and organized Saturday's event.

Crowds spilled into the street, cameramen jostled for angles, and exasperated drivers honked their horns.

"I didn't expect so many people to be here," said German visitor Tschale Haas, 50, who was dressed in a Sgt. Pepper jacket.

Abbey Road, which cuts through London's well-to-do neighborhood of St. John's Wood, is home to the eponymous studios where the group recorded much of its work.

The group decided to shoot the photograph in August 1969 while recording music for the last time together. For the shot, photographer Iain Macmillan stood on a stepladder and police held up traffic while the Beatles walked back and forth across the street.

The enduring popularity of the site has caused headaches for local authorities, who have had to move the Abbey Road street sign up out of reach to prevent theft and repaint the wall every three months to hide fans' graffiti.
Logged
I am posting on an internet forum, therefore my opinion is fact.

Andy Smith

  • A Thousand Pages
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4597
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2009, 04:46:35 PM »

thanks for them photos HelloGoodbye! ben searching for them unused shots for ages, and it wasn't the
first time the Beatles stopped the traffic, only months earlier they broght London to a stop with their
Rooftop Concert, those darn Beatles, haha! ;D
Logged


          Turn off your mind, Relax and float downstream. It is not dying

Bobber

  • Guest
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2009, 11:00:54 AM »

Better be fast if you want your picture:

Officials Want Beatles' Abbey Road Crossing Moved

British officials have called for the road crossing featured on the cover of THE BEATLES' ABBEY ROAD album to be relocated after a rise in traffic accidents there. Thousands of Fab Four fans annually make the pilgrimage to London's Abbey Road in St. John's Wood - and authorities claim more car crashes have occurred there in this decade than in the 1980s and 1990s. Government heads believe moving the crosswalk to a less crowded area will reduce the hazard for vehicles and pedestrians alike. Councillor Lindsey Hall tells Britain's The Sun, "Maybe it's time to end this once and for all and move the zebra crossing. It may end up with that." Colleague Judith Warner adds, "I have asked our transport department if it is in the most appropriate place." Hundreds of tourists caused a traffic pile-up on Saturday (08Aug09) after gathering to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day the Beatles had their photo snapped outside the Abbey Road recording studio.
Logged

Bobber

  • Guest
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #24 on: August 14, 2009, 11:04:36 AM »

ben searching for them unused shots for ages


Blimey Andy! You should have known it was never far away! Look: http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=4255.msg93106#msg93106
Logged

Hello Goodbye

  • Global Moderator
  • At The Top Of The Stairs
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 20089
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #25 on: August 14, 2009, 05:03:10 PM »

Better be fast if you want your picture:

Officials Want Beatles' Abbey Road Crossing Moved

British officials have called for the road crossing featured on the cover of THE BEATLES' ABBEY ROAD album to be relocated after a rise in traffic accidents there. Thousands of Fab Four fans annually make the pilgrimage to London's Abbey Road in St. John's Wood - and authorities claim more car crashes have occurred there in this decade than in the 1980s and 1990s. Government heads believe moving the crosswalk to a less crowded area will reduce the hazard for vehicles and pedestrians alike. Councillor Lindsey Hall tells Britain's The Sun, "Maybe it's time to end this once and for all and move the zebra crossing. It may end up with that." Colleague Judith Warner adds, "I have asked our transport department if it is in the most appropriate place." Hundreds of tourists caused a traffic pile-up on Saturday (08Aug09) after gathering to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day the Beatles had their photo snapped outside the Abbey Road recording studio.

Right.  You better hurry 'cause it may not last.
Logged
I can stay till it's time to go

SemolinaPilchard

  • A Beginning
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 79
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2009, 12:36:22 AM »

I must say I am glad Paul chose not to wear the sandals. It wouldn't have looked nearly as cool.
Logged

Andy Smith

  • A Thousand Pages
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4597
HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY TO THE ABBEY ROAD ALBUM!!
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2009, 03:23:31 PM »

Celebrating 40 Years of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road”



Today, September 26th, marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the last album the Beatles recorded together, Abbey Road. From the opening bassline of “Come Together” to “The love you take is equal to the love you make,” four decades later Abbey Road remains one of the greatest masterpieces not only in the Beatles’ history, but also in rock history. Thankfully, because of the new Beatles remasters, we’re hearing Abbey Road again like it’s the first time. With a Side A stocked with tracks like “Come Together,” “Something” and “Oh! Darling,” our readers recently voted Abbey Road as the Fab Four’s greatest album, no small achievement.

And then there’s that Side B. As John Mendelsohn wrote in his 1969 Rolling Stone review of Abbey Road, “That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite, as they’ve done on side two, seems potent testimony that no, they’ve far from lost it, and no, they haven’t stopped trying. No, on the contrary, they’ve achieved here the closest thing yet to Beatles freeform, fusing more diverse intriguing musical and lyrical ideas into a piece that amounts to far more than the sum of those ideas.” (Mendelsohn also said “Simply, side two does more for me than the whole of Sgt. Pepper,” which might be a slight overstatement.)

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Abbey Road, in addition to listening to the LP itself, be sure to check out all the essential coverage over in our Beatles hub, including the Fab Four’s photos, reviews, the story behind their breakup, their Rolling Stone covers, a landmark 1970 interview with John Lennon and much more. - Daniel Kreps

Simply, side two does more for me than the whole of Sgt. Pepper, and I'll trade you The Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour and a Keith Moon drumstick for side one.

So much for the prelims. "Come Together" is John Lennon very nearly at the peak of his form; twisted, freely-associative, punful lyrically, pinched and somehow a little smug vocally. Breathtakingly recorded (as is the whole album), with a perfect little high-hat-tom-tom run by Ringo providing a clever semi-colon to those eerie shooo-ta's, Timothy Leary's campaign song opens up things in grand fashion indeed.

George's vocal, containing less adenoids and more grainy Paul tunefulness than ever before, is one of many highlights on his "Something," some of the others being more excellent drum work, a dead catchy guitar line, perfectly subdued strings, and an unusually nice melody. Both his and Joe Cocker's version will suffice nicely until Ray Charles gets around to it.

Paul McCartney and Ray Davies are the only two writers in rock and roll who could have written "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," a jaunty vaudevillian/music-hallish celebration wherein Paul, in a rare naughty mood, celebrates the joys of being able to bash in the heads of anyone threatening to bring you down. Paul puts it across perfectly with the coyest imaginable choir-boy innocence.

Someday, just for fun, Capitol/Apple's going to have to compile a Paul McCartney Sings Rock And Roll album, with "Long Tall Sally," "I'm Down," "Helter Skelter," and, most definitely, "Oh! Darling," in which, fronting a great "ouch!"-yelling guitar and wonderful background harmonies, he delivers an induplicably strong, throat-ripping vocal of sufficient power to knock out even those skeptics who would otherwise have complained about yet another Beatle tribute to the golden groovies' era.

That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite, as they've done on side two, seems potent testimony that no, they've far from lost it, and no, they haven't stopped trying.

No, on the contrary, they've achieved here the closest thing yet to Beatles freeform, fusing more diverse intriguing musical and lyrical ideas into a piece that amounts to far more than the sum of those ideas.

"Here Comes the Sun," for example, would come off as quite mediocre on its own, but just watch how John and especially Paul build on its mood of perky childlike wonder. Like here, in "Because," is this child, or someone with a child's innocence, having his mind blown by the most obvious natural phenomena, like the blueness of the sky. Amidst, mind you, beautiful and intricate harmonies, the like of which the Beatles have not attempted since "Dr. Robert."

Then, just for a moment, we're into Paul's "You Never Give Me Your Money," which seems more a daydream than an actual address to the girl he's thinking about. Allowed to remain pensive only for an instant, we're next transported, via Paul's "Lady Madonna" voice and boogie-woogie piano in the bridge, to this happy thought: "Oh, that magic feelin'/Nowhere to go." Crickets' chirping and a kid's nursery rhyme ("1-2-3-4-5-6-7/All good children go to heaven") lead us from there into a dreamy John number, "Sun King," in which we find him singing for the Italian market, words like amore and felice giving us some clue as to the feel of this reminiscent-of-"In My Room" ballad.

And then, before we know what's happened, we're out in John Lennon's England meeting these two human oddities, Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam. From there it's off to watch a surreal afternoon telly programme, Paul's "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window." Pensive and a touch melancholy again a moment later, we're into "Golden Slumbers," from which we wake to the resounding thousands of voices on "Carry That Weight," a rollicking little commentary of life's labours if ever there was one, and hence to a reprise of the "Money" theme (the most addicting melody and unforgettable words on the album). Finally, a perfect epitaph for our visit to the world of Beatle daydreams: "The love you take is equal to the love you make ..." And, just for the record, Paul's gonna make Her Majesty his.

I'd hesitate to say anything's impossible for him after listening to Abbey Road the first thousand times, and the others aren't far behind. To my mind, they're equatable, but still unsurpassed.
Logged


          Turn off your mind, Relax and float downstream. It is not dying

BlueMeanie

  • Guest
Re: Abbey Road 40th anniversary
« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2009, 09:50:53 AM »

40 Imitations












Logged
Pages: 1 [2]
 

Page created in 0.454 seconds with 55 queries.