Abbey Road in St John’s Wood has become a worldwide landmark as home to the famous recording studios and zebra crossing which featured on the cover of the band’s Abbey Road album.
Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road LP cover from 1967 (Image: Apple)
Iain Macmillan’s iconic photograph of the Fab Four crossing the road was captured on August 8, 1969.
He snapped six photos from a stepladder in the middle of the street while a police officer held up traffic outside what was then EMI Studios.
It was the venue where The Beatles recorded most of their albums including Abbey Road – which boasted tracks like Come Together, Octopus’ Garden and Here Comes The Sun.
Music fans scrawl their favourite band names on the walls outside Abbey Road Studios where everyone from Oasis to The Beatles have cut their records. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Today it’s a site of pilgrimage for music fans who regularly hold up traffic in the affluent neighbourhood while taking selfies on the zebra crossing.
Small wonder it has been named by photography retailer Jessops as the UK’s third most photographed street with 770,000 hashtags.
Abbey Road comes after Brick Lane in east London with 1.1 million hashtags, and Oxford Street with one million hashtags and an estimated two million visitors a year.
The team at Jessops shortlisted streets based on consistent coverage in reputable travel guides, national media and official tourism websites.
They then analysed Instagram hashtag volumes for each street to rank the top 10 most photographed streets in the country.
Another Beatles-related location made the cut with Penny Lane in Liverpool ranked seventh most photographed street with 408,000 hashtags.
