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The Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Vinyl boxset offers up 40 tracks on three 180-gram vinyl LPs. The album’s new stereo mix LP is packaged in a faithfully replicated sleeve, with the two Sessions LPs paired in their own jacket, presented with a four-page insert in a lift-top box
The date is 8 August, 1969 and in the bright morning sunlight four men, wearing three pairs of shoes, walk across a zebra crossing. As a friendly bobby holds the London traffic at bay, a photographer takes six pictures from atop a ladder, searching for the perfect inverted V in his subjects’ strides. It’s the fifth of six that does the trick. The shot, startlingly simple but cloaking a complex truth, will become emblematic not only of the end of a band, maybe the band, but also the end of a decade, a movement and a dream.