The Beatles captured the iconic photo featured on the cover of their eleventh studio effort, “Abbey Road,” at 11:30 a.m. on August 8, 1969. The picture features the band strolling briskly across the intersection outside their label EMI’s recording studio on Abbey Road in St. John’s Wood, London. The image was initially conceived by Paul McCartney, who sketched it out on paper. They enlisted longtime Beatle photographer Iain Macmillan, who snapped the shot in 10 minutes while standing on a stepladder as a police officer blocked traffic. An American tourist named Paul Cole also appears in the shot and was unaware until seeing the released album. A white Volkswagen Beetle is also visible on the sleeve, and though the car became an integral part of the image, Macmillan later said it was included purely by coincidence:"The car just happened to be standing there. It had been left there by someone on holiday. Nobody with any connection to The Beatles. A policeman tried to move it away for us, but he couldn't,” he told the site alafoto.com of the image.