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LONDON—Two Saturdays ago, I crossed Abbey Road. The camera caught me mid-stride, as it did the Fab Four more than 30 years ago in the famous photograph that would grace the cover of the last album the Beatles ever recorded...
...Ringo follows in a black mod suit. Paul is next, barefoot, cigarette in hand. George brings up the rear, clad head to toe in blue denim. With a green marker I carefully tagged the stone pillar next to the Westminster NW8 street sign and the wall in front of Abbey Road Studios across the street, adding my name and the date to all the other testimonials of adoration—some quoting favorite lyrics, some merely proclaiming, “I was here,” some wishing John still...
...felt just as acutely the transience and triviality of the whole exercise. The wall in front of the Abbey Road Studios next door, regularly repainted to accommodate a planet’s worth of pilgrims seeking a cheap thrill, bore only signatures dating back a few days. My name would be gone in the blink...
George remembers Abbey Road as a place of discord, where he and Paul screamed at one another and the Beatles fell apart. But does he know how millions of others will see it for decades after he and his old cohorts—Paul and Ringo, Patti and Eric Clapton, Dylan and Petty—are gone? Perhaps George saw bitterness and regret. Does he know what I saw there...
...piazza, and get maps for a bracing walk along the shore. A short path, 20 minutes each way, will take you past the church and castle of San Giorgio to the local lighthouse at the tip of a promontory. A longer hike brings you to the 10th century Abbey of San Fruttuoso. It's two hours each way--but worth every minute for the spectacular vistas...