Disney Parks Blog - For the folks who remember The Beatles and Abbey Road

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[size=+2]A Golden Anniversary, from Abbey Road to
Main Street, U.S.A.: Mickey and the Gang
Pay Homage to The Beatles at Walt Disney
World Resort[/size]

- posted on June 26th, 2012 by Gary Buchanan, Social Media Managing Editor

Fifty years ago this year, a quartet of moptop lads from Liverpool recorded their first single, “Love Me Do.” When
they entered Abbey Road Studios for that historic recording session in 1962, little did the world know that The
Beatles were destined to become the most popular musical group in history. Selling more than 600 million
albums worldwide — with 71 singles hitting the Billboard “Hot 100” chart — they’ve influenced music like few
artists have.

One of the most iconic photos of The Beatles was taken in 1969 for the group’s “Abbey Road” LP. The album
cover showed John, Ringo, Paul and George (walking in that order) in mid-stride on an Abbey Road crosswalk in
London.

To honor the band’s 50th anniversary, we asked Mickey, Pluto, Donald and Goofy to recreate the photo on Main
Street, U.S.A., at Magic Kingdom Park.

Today, we’re pleased to offer it to you, not only as a photo to view (in the same square format as the studio
album), but also in additional, high-resolution sizes you can download for digital wallpaper use. After all, since
the characters pictured are known unofficially as the “Fab Five” (minus Minnie, who was on hand to help direct
this shot), it seems like an appropriate homage to the supergroup known worldwide as the “Fab Four.”

(Click on the photo above in this post to take you to the wallpaper download page, and be sure to check out the
terms of use for using the wallpapers before you download.)

As we teased yesterday with our photo of Herbie, we hinted the answer had a lot to do with “love.” And it does —
Herbie the Love Bug and “Love Me Do.” (We think Herbie does a terrific job portraying the Volkswagen Beetle
partially parked on the Abbey Road curb in the original photo.)

Yellow Shoes Creative Group once again lived up to its name, with Disney Parks Blog Author and Photographer
Matt Stroshane taking this picture at Magic Kingdom Park. (A trivia tidbit — Matt actually shot this photo on Paul
McCartney’s birthday last week.) The Yellow Shoes production team secured props and other elements to make
the scene as detailed as possible. All of the elements in the image are authentic and were on Main Street as they
are seen here. The only photo enhancement by the Yellow Shoes production team is a “grainy” hint created in the
final image to look more like a photo taken in 1969. Even the crosswalk and street lines are the real deal.
Professional-grade thermoplastic, the thick, non-slip and reflective material used on actual streets and sidewalks
everywhere, was placed on Main Street, U.S.A., for the temporary crosswalk and street lines that run down the
middle of Main Street toward the trolley.

See if you can spot other similarities in this photo, and let us know any other details in the comments section.

- Disney Parks Blog (June 26, 2012) by Gary Buchanan, Social Media Managing Editor

Source: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...e-to-the-beatles-at-walt-disney-world-resort/

 

[Karenann*]

LOVE THIS!!!!! Had my kids pics taken like this but not at DL!!!
Thanks for the download...new desktop pic!

 

[nannyz]

Great picture!
Do I remember the Beatles??? Heck, I LIVED the Beatles.
My daddy (RIP) worked for the airlines, cleaning the planes, when the Beatles first came to America. He met all of them. When I asked them what they were like, his only comment was, "They were very pale." I still laugh over that.

 

[Thundergod]

Finding people who remember the Beatles and Abbey Road might soon be like finding WWII vets!