Posted on Jun 14, 2023
Paul McCartney's photos of early Beatlemania are in a book and on display in London
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https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/ [login to see] /paul-mccartney-photos-beatles-1964-eyes-of-the-storm-book
This famous moment in music history is now visible from a different angle.
Any capsule history of rock music, or pop music, or the 1960's will include the Beatles' arrival in the United States in early 1964. The images are all familiar — young men with bowl haircuts (that they'd later grow out) and businesslike suits (which they'd later trade for more exotic sixties fashions) and their catchy hit songs (which they'd later make weirder and more psychedelic). Also familiar: the screaming fans, who would remain about the same for decades.
What's different about the photos in Paul McCartney's book 1964: Eyes of the Storm is the point of view of the photographer: McCartney himself.
This famous moment in music history is now visible from a different angle.
Any capsule history of rock music, or pop music, or the 1960's will include the Beatles' arrival in the United States in early 1964. The images are all familiar — young men with bowl haircuts (that they'd later grow out) and businesslike suits (which they'd later trade for more exotic sixties fashions) and their catchy hit songs (which they'd later make weirder and more psychedelic). Also familiar: the screaming fans, who would remain about the same for decades.
What's different about the photos in Paul McCartney's book 1964: Eyes of the Storm is the point of view of the photographer: McCartney himself.
Paul McCartney's photos of early Beatlemania are in a book and on display in London
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Reading your post takes me back to a book that I read as an undergraduate at San José State and that I thoroughly enjoyed. It spoke so clearly to me and I found myself within the covers of the book. The title is, "The Making of a Counter Culture," (https://www.amazon.com/Making-Counter-Culture-Theodore-Roszak/dp/ [login to see] ) and it was written by Theodore Roszak (1933-2011), a history professor at Cal State - East Bay. The Beatles fit into Roszak's writing so perfectly. . . .
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