Abby Road

Heard on the BBC this morning that the picture on the album cover of the Beatles "Abby Road" was shot 40 years ago today! Now their music is played at the nursing home in Monroeville.

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970. Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was engineer, Alan Parsons was assistant engineer, and Tony Banks was tape operator.[1] It is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time.[2][3] Rolling Stone magazine named it the 14th greatest album of all time,[4] even though the magazine initially gave the album a mixed reception: Their November 15, 1969 issue features two very different reviews - a strongly negative one from Ed Ward, who particularly criticizes its overproduction, and a rave review from John Mendelsohn.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_(album)

Today in history...

On July 17, 2007 the Dow rose above 14,000 points - a record high - [it closed today at 8743.94 up 32.12 -On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States. On that day the Dow closed at 7943. The Dow's lowest was on March 9, 2009 when it closed at 6,594.]

That night over two inches of rain fell across the Hoosier heartland sending relief to the region which was experiencing drought-like conditions. [got an inch last night...] That same evening, debate began on the floor of the Senate calling for US troops to return home from war-torn Iraq. The nation was divided over the president’s policies while rumors of terrorist attacks on US soil began to intensify. The cost of a gallon of regular blend gasoline had risen to over $3.25 earlier in the year. Purdue University welcomed a new President (the day before) - France Cordova - who had been chancellor of the University of California-Riverside. Cordova is the first woman to lead Purdue since its founding in 1869. Meanwhile, Indiana announced on March 1 that Michael McRobbie would become its 19th President effective July 1st Prior to being named president he served as interim provost of the Bloomington campus. An Australian national, McRobbie had been on the Bloomington campus since 1997