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These famous recording studios have also seen the likes of Pink Floyd and Edward Elgar pass through their doors since , and are still some of the best studios in the world. There is no official Abbey Road Studios tour, but you can take a picture of the building from outside, leave a message on its graffiti wall or look for souvenirs in the shop. Find more The Beatles London attractions by booking a special Beatles tour or discover more music-themed things to do in London.

Find out how to become a Partner to enhance your listing and access other benefits. Follow the coronavirus guidance for London. Following the rancor of the White Album and the disastrous sessions that would eventually be pieced into their last album, Let It Be, in , the Beatles needed a return to the familiar.

And so they did, sort of. Abbey Road actually came together bit by bit over the course of six months, partly elsewhere and at times without Martin. That was all they had time to accomplish as a group for the next couple of months, as they went off to work on separate projects.

Ringo Starr was filming The Magic Christian ; McCartney was getting married to Linda Eastman and producing records for Mary Hopkin and Jackie Lomax; Lennon and Yoko Ono were also getting hitched, traveling to Paris, then to Gibraltar for the wedding, back to France, then Amsterdam to spend a week lying in bed to promote the peace movement, and finally Vienna, before returning to London.

Amid all the chaos, Harrison had been maturing as a songwriter — although he was more modest about his gifts than Lennon and McCartney were about theirs. When the Beatles stuck to music, they were basically fine. When they had to turn their attention to other matters, particularly their troubled business situation, it was a disaster. Their advisers were at odds, and they were embroiled in a losing battle to regain control of their own work.

They scattered for a couple of months, taking off for vacations with their wives once again. On July 9th, Lennon returned, bringing the still-recuperating Ono to the studio with him. She was set up with a bed to rest in, with a microphone hanging overhead so she could comment on the goings-on if she felt like it. The next song the Beatles tackled — the album-ending medley — was a testament to their ability to make something coherent, even poetic, out of their fragmented artistic relationship.

Secondly, the area was redeveloped in to make way for the Alexandra and Ainsworth housing estate , which opened in In late a crazy conspiracy theory started doing the rounds that Paul McCartney had in actual fact been killed in a car accident in , and had been replaced by a lookalike.

McCartney parodied the whole affair in the title and album artwork for his concert album Paul Is Live. George, however, was always his own man and rocked up that day in double denim. One of the pictures was later used on the cover of the Hey Jude compilation LP. Be sure to visit the official Abbey Road Studios accounts for more great pictures of this iconic rock location. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sam Fender.