Comments | selenak: London: Pictorial Epilogue (aka "And in the end...")

selenak

London: Pictorial Epilogue (aka "And in the end...")

Feb 22, 2014 09:46

Because there was the occasional spot of sunshine. Like yesterday morning, before I had to catch my flight. Guess what I did before I left that island on the silver sea?

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england, travel, london, beatles

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ffutures February 22 2014, 09:28:08 UTC

RE Abbey Road - The perspective thing is because they moved the crossing - I think it was too dangerous in the original location with so many people using it, but I may be remembering it wrong.

My brother-in-law drove me and my sister to a funeral once, his route took us along Abbey Road - VERY slow traffic. Fortunately we were very early so it didn't matter.

selenak February 22 2014, 17:55:32 UTC

Very slow traffic indeed. I think around midnight you'd have a chance to drive through, but I could be wrong.:)

kathyh February 22 2014, 10:04:09 UTC

I'd always imagined the Abbey Road studio in a bigger building. Strangely I've never seen it even though I used to live not all that far away!

selenak February 22 2014, 17:56:23 UTC

Me too, but we were wrong. :) How this tiny building withstood the siege of fangirls, I don't know!

cmattg February 22 2014, 16:59:12 UTC

Not enough time to visit Penny Lane, too?

selenak February 22 2014, 17:56:46 UTC

Tsk. Penny Lane is in Liverpool.

itsnotmymind February 22 2014, 17:23:42 UTC

The zebra crosswalk seemed to much smaller in real life than I imagined it my head from the album cover. The studio, too.

The other thing, which I knew of course but which the physical being there brings home in a different way: on the album cover, the Beatles are walking away from the Abbey Road Studios. Which, given this was the last album they recorded, is symbolically fitting, even if no one knew when taking the cover picture.

Didn't Geoff Emerick say that there were versions of the photo where they were walking towards the studio, but all four Beatles wanted a different photo, and all four wanted one where they were walking away from the studio? Very symbolic.

selenak February 22 2014, 18:00:51 UTC

The studio is really tiny. Perhaps because Parlaphone really was the "poor" branch of EMI? The road, though, actually looked larger to me but that's because it's winter and thus the trees aren't covered with leaves like they are on the album cover.

And yes, very symbolic, with the walking away preference.

itsnotmymind February 23 2014, 16:28:17 UTC

I was there in summer time, so perhaps that's why it looked smaller to me.

lokifan February 23 2014, 08:36:26 UTC

<333 Great photos of my favourite city!