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| | Abbey Road - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Over the next seven years, the Beatles would go on to make the Abbey Road studios, specifically Studio 2, all their own (Paul McCartney used to live just around the corner), even naming their 1969 album in homage to it. |
 | | That album’s cover image, of the four band members striding across the zebra crossing outside the studio, is why tourists from all over the world risk life and limb today to have their pictures taken standing in the middle of the famous road. |
 | | Far from being an ancient monument, though, Abbey Road is still a functioning studio, having recently hosted the recording of the third 'Star Wars' movie soundtrack. |
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