Margaret Thatcher Abbey Road Cover
The fifth of six photos became the cover for the abbey road album which was released the following month.
Margaret thatcher abbey road cover. It would be another year before mccartneys announced exit signalled the most successful. Abbey road recording studios north west london. On 31 may 1990 six months before being squeezed from office margaret thatcher paid a visit to abbey road.
Security rules thwarted a plan for margaret thatcher to boost her popularity by meeting pop star kate bush at the abbey road music studios leaving the iron lady to settle instead for a lively. The beatles made abbey road eternally famous when the british group recorded then photographed the cover of their album abbey road at abbey road studios in london in 1969. Margaret thatcher played the drums during her visit to the abbey road studios in 1990.
Before the visit slocock asked thatcher whether she would be happy to be photographed on the abbey road zebra crossing to recreate the iconic beatles album cover and also beating drums used by. Margaret thatcher walks across the zebra crossing made famous by the beatles on the cover of their abbey road album pa during your visit to the studios you will meet amongst others mike batt who composed the theme music for wombles of wimbledon a bbc programme about creatures who picked up litter from wimbledon common she wrote. Margaret thatcher walks across the zebra crossing made famous by the beatles on the cover of their abbey road album pa during your visit to the studios you will meet amongst others mike batt.
At the time she said. I loved the songs of the beatles she told journalists. And posed for photographs playing the drums in the studio and walking across the famous zebra crossing on the road outside.
They were sheer genius both in the way they. I loved the songs of the beatles.