50 years have passed since Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr crossed the Abbey road, outside the studio in north London. Photographer Iain Stewart Macmillan captured the eighth of August, at 11.35am in 1969, the moment that became the cover of The Beatles eleventh studio album. The album was named after the street, and became classic in terms of content and aesthetics. The image has been reconstructed by a variety of artists, television series and artists. It has also given rise to several conspiracy theories. Among other things, Paul McCartney would have died in a car accident in 1966, that is, three years before the photo was taken, and that the group would have darkened the death and replaced McCartney with a double-named William Sheppard. The conspirators behind "Paul is dead" - as the theory came to be called - claimed that hidden messages that confirmed everything were in the famous picture.
On the 50th anniversary of the photograph being taken, fans are now flocking to the pedestrian crossing in London. The news agency Reuters captured the traffic chaos.