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... and we got, erm, Sgt Pepper's Only Dartboard Band. It was forty years ago today...!!! at 11.30 to be precise I saw one of the original photos - signed and numbered by the author, Ian Macmillan - at one of the London galleries fo 10 thousand pounds recently. The Beatles decided to shoot the photograph in August 1969 while recording music for the last time together. For the shot, photographer Iain Macmillan stood on a stepladder and police held up traffic while the Beatles walked back and forth across the street just 10 minutes. Only six pictures were taken in all. Iain Stewart Macmillan (Oct 20, 1938 - May 8, 2006) was the Scottish photographer. After growing up in Scotland, he moved to London to become a professional photographer. He used a photo of Yoko Ono in a book he published in 1966 and was invited by Yoko to photograph her exhibit at Indica Gallery. She introduced him to John Lennon. John invited him to be the photographer for the cover of Abbey Road. Iain was given a sketch by Paul MacCartney a couple of days before the shoot showing where and what the picture should look like. Iain added his own sketch in the top corner to confirm the layout. The Volkswagen? Iain said "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". On Aug 8, 1969 around 11:30am, Iain climbed up a stepladder about 10 feet in the air in the middle of ...