FOUR FEET ON THE CROSSING

Event: The Beatles — Abbey Road Photo Shoot
Venue: Abbey Road Zebra Crossing, London, UK · 51°31′55″N 00°10′38″W
State: Greater London, United Kingdom
Registry Number: TMP-3TB3-B-691

On the morning of August 8, 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan climbed a stepladder in the middle of Abbey Road and took six photographs. A police officer held back the traffic. John, Ringo, Paul, and George crossed the zebra crossing in front of the EMI Studios. The whole session lasted ten minutes. One of those six frames became the cover of Abbey Road — and one of the most reproduced images in the history of popular culture.

The Beatles were already falling apart. Abbey Road was their last recorded album together, though not the last released. There was tension, there were lawyers, there were separate lives pulling in separate directions. And yet — on that crossing, on that morning — they walked in step. Four people who had changed music forever, caught in a single stride on an ordinary London street.

TEMPVS registers the exact coordinates of that crossing — the precise point on earth where four feet walked together for the last time. August 8, 1969. Abbey Road, London. The crossing that never stopped.

REGISTERED · IMMUTABLE · ETERNAL