OK, so yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the release of the Abbey Road album. I’m not a Beatles fan, never have been, but I guess this album is significant in being the last album released by the Beatles. It’s also significant because of the cover. It’s somehow iconic and has been copied and parodied on at least a hundred albums I could find with some quick google-fu. It’s one of the most popular album covers to immitate along with The Velvet Underground and The Who Live at Leeds. Apparently it took only ten minutes to put together. Not a bad return for minimal effort, but that’s how it usually works, huh. The best photos just seem to happen. Here are a couple of my favourite immitations.
Nice post, kind of drawn out though. Really good subject matter though.
Hi Brian,
nice selection of Abbey Road inspired covers. It happens that I am currently looking for five similar album covers inspired by one motive. Abbey Road was one option, Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home is another one. I’ve already got His Bobness himself, Christiane Roesinger’s Songs Of L. And Hate and Is It Rolling, Bob? It would be nice to know more about your information sources.
Thanks, and take care.
NF