back from the dead.

At 11:35 A.M. on August 8, 1969, the cover picture for the Beatles record Abbey Road was taken. In the fall of 1969, shortly after the release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road Album, a wild rumor started spreading across America: was Paul McCartney dead? It was the cover of Abbey Road that started it all!

On the Abbey Road Album, why was Paul barefoot and out of step? Was John dressed in white to represent a religious person? Was Ringo dressed like a mortician and George dressed as a shabby gravedigger? Why does Paul have a cigarette in his right hand? Paul is left handed. What about the policeman on the other side of the street? The yellow VW bug license plate that read 28IF. Was this album cover staged? The paul is dead rumors started to take off.