The street gained mass attention and even became a landmark after The Beatles named their 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’, with the album cover featuring the four members crossing the road.
Now, every day, dozens of eager and excited tourists head to the location to recreate the iconic album cover.
However, it seems some of those tourists expect a bit more than just a road when they make the trip to St John’s Wood and often end up disappointed.
Many of those tourists have taken to the online review site Tripadvisor to share their upset.
One visitor titled their review “disappointed doesn’t cover it…” explaining: “On reflection, I think I may have been expecting too much. My disappointment in not finding street sellers, either side of the road, selling cheap t-shirts and merchandise was a surprise.”
They added: “It’s just a zebra crossing and you’d save yourself some money by just standing on any of the millions in the UK and just photoshopping the background in.”
Another upset Beatles fan shared that there’s ‘nothing to see’: "I am a massive Beatles fan, but there really is nothing to see here.
“It’s just an ordinary zebra crossing. It’s busy - crowded with fellow tourists trying to work out if they are even at the right place, and with annoyed drivers trying to drive down a busy main road.”
Thats not what “dark side of the moon” means. From Wikipedia
I’ve only ever heard boomers, racists, and idiots use the word “dark” to mean “unknown” or call it the “dark” side when they meant “far” side.
The common phrase “in the dark” denotes being in the unknown. What about Captain Li Shang from the film Mulan describing the dark side of the moon as “mysterious”, an approximate synonym of “unknown”? It seems like you’re being very reductive.
I imagine most people don’t consider the specifics of astronomy when using the phrase in reference to the moon; it’s even common in media today to see crescent moons with stars located where there should be shadow.
It doesn’t mean “the far side”. It means “the side we can’t see”. Like you can’t see when it’s dark. Idk how you even managed to crowbar race into this but I’m a little impressed by the audacity of it.
Your privilege is showing if you seriously have never confronted the racist undertones of the white colonial idea of darkness. Just for a start “The Heart of Darkness”, the dark continent, the epithet “darky”. There’s so many more it’s often practically it’s got own college class devoted to the subject.
Fine, but there’s none of that here. You’re looking so hard that you see it in places it’s never been.
Yeah, I’ve also only ever heard that from racists and fools too.
Alright whatever champ
You’re quite right. It’s literally everyone else who’s wrong. The Dark Ages is racist. Dark Matter is racist. Dark energy is racist. Phillip Pullman is racist.
Or you could admit that your vocabulary isn’t comprehensive and that you don’t already know everything.