How old is Abbey Road?

[ohiosmith]

[datasuspect]

1. the road or the album?

[Rick Myers]

2. 1969

[skygazer]

3. I believe it dates back to medieval times

When it was a cowpath or something.

[miss_kitty]

4. I think it was a road

to an abbey, actually.

[stlsaxman]

5. any DUers have a "crossing pic" from their "pilgrimage"?

i do but haven't figured out the easiest way to post pics here... any help?

[miss_kitty]

6. I finally broke down and got a free photobucket acct

much less painful than I thought.

[Floogeldy]

7. I just noticed something that nobody has ever mentioned.

Look at the "part" in Paul's hair. You see that wide white part?

It looks as if the wind is blowing his hair from his right side, causing the parting.

Yet, the hair of the other's is perfectly still. No wind disturbance, whatsoever.

Paul is dead.

[ForrestGump]

10. That's where the fatal injury was that night in 1966

When Paul was OPD. Miss him. Miss him. Cranberry sauce.

[benny05]

11. It's humorous

That these guys looked "unkempt" back then. Today, the youth wear baggie pants that droop in displaying the lines between their buttocks. I think that look is more unkempt, but then I am in my mid-40's and do not have children; albeit I work with college kids every day.

Another clue about "Paul is dead": he is also barefoot with a cigarette. Sad that John and George are gone now.

[Richardo]

15. Another clue: the license plate '28IF' on the yellow VW

...means he would have been 28 had he lived. :shrug:

[catbert836]

16. Actually he was 29

when Abbey Road was released.

[Richardo]

18. BUT! His death was rumored earlier than the release.

Keep in mind - everyone was fitting the facts around the theory in the best tinfoil-hat tradition. :thumbsup:

[WCGreen]

19. And John was the Minister....

Ringo was the Mortician...

Paul, of course was the corpse.....

And George was the grave digger....


I think Paul and John giggled about the whole thing latter and that they said they were putting in these clues after the rumours started...

The Walrus was Paul....

The Walrus represents death in some sub nordic culture....

But in Glass Onion.... John sings. We'll here's another clue for you all the Walrus was Paul... In reference to the Magical Mystery Tour Album cover...

God that was so intriguing to a 10 year old back in 1967....

[sasquatch]

8. I'd still like to know why people aren't buried with their shoes in the UK

:shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Rubber Souls?

:shrug:

[Deep13]

14. It's tradition. Shoes were too expensive to waste on a dead guy.

Also, one would need a slightly bigger coffin to accomodate them, especially in width as the two feet could not be crammed together.

[Skidmore]

12. Best. Album. Ever.

except for any Eagles album. And then there's the Led Zeppelin album with "Stairway to Heaven" on it. Oh, yeah, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung." Anything by Bob Dylan. Gosh, I'm bad at this sort of thing.

[catbert836]

17. You mean "Led Zeppelin IV"

And IMHO, it's stupid to rate an album as "best ever" based on just one good song.

[Wetzelbill]

13. I never drove on it so I don't know

[tyedyeto]

20. I was there in 1999 for the 30th anniv

And met the writer of this article for the SF Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/08/22/TRAVEL5080.dtl&hw=abbey&sn=001&sc=1000


I took 15 Girl Scouts to England that summer. The girls wanted to go to Abbey Road, so off we went by Tube to St. John's Station. When we got there, the writer and a photographer for the paper were there. The girls wanted to walk the crosswalk 'Beatles fashion' (one girl was barefoot ala Paul) 4 at a time. The photographer took several photos of the girls and did publish one with the article in the Sunday edition of the Travel section. Unfortunately the pic doesn't accompany the archived article.

Beware----- walking across that crosswalk could be hazardous to your health. Very dangerous with cars zooming thru, not stop signs to be seen.

PS. The pics I took are on a floppy and this pc doesn't have a floppy drive so I can't post the ones I took. One of these days I'm going to take all those floppys and have them put on CDs.

[Atlas Mugged]

21. 'Absolutely Fabulous' did an episode there

Great fun - Patsy and Eddie screaming at tourists who were mimicking the Beatles.