

There’s no museum in that part of Abbey Road. I think Paul Cole was telling tales, his story seems to indicate that he has only seen the one photo that most people have seen, the actual Abbey Road cover. You didn’t walk around in London barefoot”.

When he looked over at the Beatles, he only recognized them as “A bunch of kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that time. He was starting a conversation with the driver of the police van, and a bit later he realized that the police was there for a special occasion. Mystery man close up from the record cover.Īccording to a couple of interviews he gave in 2004, Paul Cole was on the pavement while he was waiting for his wife, who was visiting a museum in Abbey Road. But was he really that man? We don’t think so, and here’s why. In February 2008, news was that Florida resident Paul Cole, by the media identified as the man beside the police van on the famous Abbey Road cover photo of The Beatles, had died, aged 93. The update was made because we got hold of some Abbey Road photos that were in a higher resolution than earlier, which enabled us to take a closer look at the person in question. This is an update about a mystery that we have previously covered.

Who is that person beside the police van? The “Mystery man” on the Abbey Road cover
