As an American tourist Paul Cole was visiting London in 1969, he’d grown tired of visiting museums and went to Abbey Road.
He took a walk on the wild seat while waiting for his wife and by coincidence ended up in a photo seen around the world.
Mr. Cole can be seen in the photograph, taken by Iain Macmillan, wearing a brown jacket and glasses with his hands on his hips looking over toward the Fab Four.
“I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking across the street like a line of ducks,” Cole called them.
“A bunch of kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that time. You didn’t walk around in London barefoot.” Referring to the fact that Paul McCartney eschewed shoes for the iconic photo.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969. It is the last album the group recorded,[although Let It Be was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970. It was mostly recorded in April, July, and August 1969, and topped the record charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A double A-side single from the album, "Something" / "Come Together", was released in October, which also topped the charts in the US.
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