A photograph of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road the other way is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction. It was taken during the same session as the picture used on the cover of the band’s 1969 album recorded at the studio in St John’s Wood.
Iain Macmillan, a photographer friend of Yoko Ono, was given ten minutes to get the shot, enough time for six pictures of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr going back and forth at the zebra crossing.
The photograph shows them walking from right to left — the opposite direction to the picture chosen for the cover — and McCartney is wearing sandals, whereas he was barefoot on the album, leading some fans to believe that he had