While reviewing his shots later that day, however, he decided that the “blue dress” photo was the most interesting of the bunch, and he ended up using it in the final composition. Much to his chagrin, while he was busy shooting an oblivious woman in a blue dress walked right in front of his viewfinder. He found it at the junction of Alexandra Road and started taking photos of the sign. The Glass Onion Beatles Journal: Vintage Beatles Italian 'Yellow Submarine' poster. In fact, after the road-crossing photo was finished, Iain Macmillan set off to find a good “Abbey Road” street marker sign to use for the back cover of the album. Theorists say the girl in the dress featured on the back cover was meant to be her, fleeing from the car crash. On the night of Paul’s supposed car accident, he was believed to have been driving with a fan named Rita. He later explained that “we didn’t need to write the band’s name on the cover… They were the most famous band in the world.” A Please Please Me Album Cover Autographed By The Beatles In The Fall Of 1963 'Please Please Me', a seminal album in early ‘60s British rock, was rush-released on March 22, 1963, barely a month after it was recorded by The Beatles in a marathon one day recording session at Abbey Road Studios (then known as EMI Studios). They hung around just to be nosey and were all captured for posterity on the cover photograph.Ībbey Road is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover, which was Kosh’s idea, despite EMI claiming the record would not sell without this information. They were doing a decorating job in Abbey Road studios and were coming back after a lunch break when the picture was taken. You can barely see them, but on the left pavement, further back, stand three decorators, subsequently identified as Alan Flanagan, Steve Millwood and Derek Seagrove. Some US commentators and music industry executives viewed the cover imagery as a statement on Capitols policy of butchering the Beatles albums for the North. He also admitted that he never heard Abbey Road. He was accidentally included in the album as he watched the foursome one by one cross the street while on vacation in London and thought they were just four “kooks.” Paul Cole was totally unaware he had been photographed until he saw the album cover months later. The man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture is an American tourist named Paul Cole. The controversial artwork for Wests highly anticipated album shows a naked creature.