Thousands of Beatles fans mark the 40th anniversary of Abbey Road

26 September 1969. Abbey Road, the final album The Beatles recorded together, was released. Using an 8-track recording machine, it’s regarded as the slickest and most well-produced Beatles album and is the best-selling Beatles album worldwide.

To mark the 40th anniversary, thousands of Beatles fans were photographed at the Abbey Road zebra crossing back in 2009.

Fans were led across the most famous black and white stripes in London by the Beatles tribute band 'Sgt Pepper’s Only Dart Board Band', who were dressed in replica Beatles outfits and arrived in a replica of John Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls Royce. They crossed exactly 40 years to the minute (11:35) since the Beatles.

The crowds celebrated the occasion by singing some of the Fab Four's best-loved hits as they jammed into the road on and around the zebra crossing.

It was back on 8th August 1969, at 11.35am, when the 'Fab Four' walked across a zebra crossing in St John's Wood posing for a photo that was to be used on their last album to be recorded. Hardly an earth-shattering event, but since then millions of people have come to the very same crossing to imitate them and Abbey Road has never been the same since and has become a shrine for Beatles fans Worldwide for years.

The renowned pose of The Beatles on the Abbey Road crossing endures as one of the most famous LP covers of all time. The idea for the picture was most probably Paul McCartney's as he had drawn a sketch showing how the picture should look.

For the photo shoot, The Beatles congregated by the crossing at around 11.35am. The day 40 years ago was gloriously sunny and photographer Iain MacMillan stood on a step ladder in the middle of the road to get the required angle. The whole session only took only 10 minutes and only 6 photographs were taken and the shot was used for the album cover.

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