I'm not sure if photographer Iain Macmillan used a 3D camera to take the original shot, or if this is a carefully-made fake, but there ARE long-existing lenticular posters of the Abbey Road cover.
Posted on 08/08/2019 7:53:38 AM PDT by Borges
I'm not sure if photographer Iain Macmillan used a 3D camera to take the original shot, or if this is a carefully-made fake, but there ARE long-existing lenticular posters of the Abbey Road cover.
Er, when I said “3D camera”, I meant “a linear line of cameras wired to one shutter to get parallax photos for lenticular prints...”
I was never much of a fan, but I own Rubber Soul and Abbey Road. Yes, it was a superior album and a fitting end.
Maybe I misremember but I thought ‘Let It Be’ was the last album. Wasn’t ‘Abbey Road’ just before that?
“‘Let It Be’ was the last album. Wasn’t ‘Abbey Road’ just before that?”
You are correct that “Let it Be” was the last album released. “Abbey Road” was the last recorded. Some say that Let it Be was such a mess that the band wanted to finish their work on a stronger note. I’m not sure I believe that, but Let it Be has historical significance in the sense that it chronicled the band breaking up. I don’t think that was their intent when they started it, but that’s the way it turned out.
The magic had run its course.
I went there last June and had my picture taken walking across Abbey Road. What I forgot, was that they drive on the left side of the street. I almost got run over!
But it was quite exciting being outside Abbey Road Studios. The history that was made there is amazing. Kinda like being outside the Brill Building in Manhattan.
The last of the "magic" was Revolver and Rubber Soul.
“The last of the “magic” was Revolver and Rubber Soul.”
Both great albums. The digitally remastered original mono versions released in the UK were far superior to the pseudo-stereo vinyl albums originally released in the US.
My opinion is their creativity peaked with The Beatles (popular known as the White Album), but all of their albums were classic.
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