Designer John Kosh claimed that EMI bosses were furious, but argued: “The biggest band in the world, you don’t have to say who they are - everyone knows who they are.”Ī post shared by The Beatles traffic wasn’t the same 50 years ago, but Abbey Road was still a busy thoroughfare, which meant that photographer Iain Macmillan only had a short time to get his shot on his Hasselblad camera. When a plan was floated to take a cover photo in the foothills of the Himalayas to illustrate the title, the band went off the idea and instead went with the easiest plan possible - have the picture taken outside the studio and call it Abbey Road!įor the only time in their career, The Beatles presented the world with an album cover that didn’t feature their name, or the title of the LP at all. One idea was to call it “Everest” after the cigarettes that engineer Geoff Emerick smoked during the sessions.