Also this month

September 26: On this day in 1969, Abbey Road was released in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dkj6vKVqd4

To those that haven’t heard it, the isolated vocals from the side two suite served as a reminder of exactly how good these guys were, even when personal relations were frayed.

The identity of the woman in blue who walked through photographer Iain MacMillan’s frame - and serendipitously made it pop - has never become known. (Decades later, the late Paul Cole identified himself as the onlooker seen in the background of the front cover, but his story has been met with justifiable skepticism: see Roger Stormo’s analysis here: https://tinyurl.com/y3asky73 )

The letter tiles immortalized on the back cover also have a “rest of the story”:

https://tinyurl.com/yyjj23be