The Beatles Picture Thread
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OMG, I love this photo of John!
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@NJR yes beautiful indeed.
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I like this one that I saw on Instagram.
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@NJR I saw this picture on Instagram too. Very beautiful. I love this blue colour. Thanks
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@littlewillow said in The Beatles Picture Thread:
@njr said in The Beatles Picture Thread:
@NJR I love Paul McCartney face.
YES!!
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1963 Note George’s guitar
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July 28, 1968 “Mad Day Out” with Martha & Eddie.
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Aug. 5, 1961
The first known photo of Ringo with a Beatle - in the Cavern on 5th August, 1961, a full year before he joined the group, taken by Bob Dean.
Also featuring Lou Walters of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes with an unidentified friend, this was published in issue No. 4 (Aug. 17-31, 1961) of 'Mersey Beat'.
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Saturday, 7th November, 1959: 16-year-old George playing his first electric guitar, a Hofner Club 40, at the Co-Operative Hall on Rice Lane in Liverpool.
According to a 1996 Christie's auction catalogue, he was "with Eddie Sedgewick on bass, and a drummer, at the coming of age party of David Minchella".
According to George, "fed up" with his acoustic Hofner President, he'd done "a straight swap for a Club 40. I thought it was the most fantastic guitar ever.”
“The Club 40 that George got was originally mine,” Ray Ennis of The Swinging Blue Jeans would recall. “We had our residency on Tuesdays at the Cavern and I remember we did the swap there. I swapped it for his acoustic Hofner, which was sunburst, with f-holes. I haven’t got it now – because at the time, who thought The Beatles would be so famous? In those early days we used to get fed up with guitars very quickly, so we’d swap and change a lot.”
John had bought his own Club 40 - or 'Club Footy', as he liked to call it - from Hessy’s Music Shop in August of '59.
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1965
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Paris 1965
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Great pic of George and Tom Petty!
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This date in '58: Japage 3 ("Jay-page" - 'Ja' for 18-year-old John, 'pa' for 16-year-old Paul, 'ge' for 15-year-old George) debuted at the wedding reception of George's brother Harry and his bride Irene McCann.
"Our wedding was just one of those occasions where they thought they would practice on people and see what happened," Harry later recalled. "They were not exactly... what the majority of the people there expected. They had a tea-break and an elderly lady who was one of the guests came along to play the piano who was a real pub player. She could really hammer out tunes that everybody wanted to sing to. The three lads reappeared from the bar, pints in hand, and John just poured a pint over this lady’s head, just straight over the head, saying ‘I anoint thee David,’ and just walked away.
"And this lady surprised me because there was absolutely nothing, just no reaction. She just smiled and got up and went away and got dry again, y’know, and I thought it was funny because in those days people used to say ‘Oh, has he had a wedding in Liverpool? How many fights were there?' But like there wasn’t even a fight, y’know; the nearly-fight was John Lennon pouring a pint on her head."
Today, Liverpool's Childwall Abbey Hotel and pub, on (I kid you not) Childwall Abbey Road, retains the salient architectural features.
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Better photo, plus what it looks like today. Another coincidence is that Harry’s bride’s maiden name was McCann, which is the name of the street Louise Harrison lived on in Benton Illinois!
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Then & Now composites:
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