The cover of the Abbey Road album shows all four members of The Beatles in the middle of a crosswalk. It was their eleventh studio album and the last one that they would release.
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"Maxwell's Silver Hammer," from the 1969 album Abbey Road.
Abbey Road, in the late summer of 1969. They agreed to set aside their differences, and make one more album together. Let It Be came out in the spring of 1970, but had mostly been recorded the year before.
Abbey Road
The studios on Abbey Road in London were originally known as the EMI Studios. Following the success of the Beatles album Abbey Road which was recorded at the EMI studios, the studios were renamed after the road and album.
The Beatles recorded the bulk of their work in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, in St. John's Wood, London. Most of their songs were recorded in Studio Two (home to 191 Beatles recordings), but they also used One (meant for symphony orchestras) and Three (meant for soloists or duets). The Beatles also used Trident and Olympic Studios, later in their career.Their BBC recordings were virtually all made at BBC's studios. One of their annual Christmas records was recorded at Dick James' small studio. The German versions of "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were recorded in EMI's Paris studio, and the music to "The Inner Light" at EMI's studio in Mumbai (then called Bombay), India.