the cover photograph for "please please me", the first lp by the beatles, was taken by angus mcbean in 1963. it showed the group looking down over the stairwell inside emi house here, emi's london headquarters (now demolished). a repeat photo was taken in 1969 for the cover of their then-intended "get back" album; it was not used when the project saw release as "let it be", but was eventually used on the retrospective albums "1962–1966" and "1967–1970".