George and Paul during the Octopus’s Garden sessions
George and Paul having some fun in the studio while recording backup vocals for Octopus’s Garden at Abbey Road studios, July 17, 1969. Photos by Linda McCartney.
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Beatles parents
The parents of the four Beatles played important roles in shaping their lives and careers. Here is a brief overview of each Beatle’s parents: John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool,...
Paul McCartney Höfner bass advertisements
Above: Music store standup promotional display, United Kingdom, c. 1964/65 Above: Magazine advertisement by Sorkin Music Co. Inc., New York, in Down Beat, c. 1967
Beatles fashion, 1966
Photo from the June 30, 1966, press conference held at the Tokyo Hilton in Japan. Due to police protection, the Beatles were restricted to their hotel rooms with little outside contact. George later compared...
Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd is an English model, photographer, and former wife of two iconic rock musicians, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. She was born on March 17, 1944, in Somerset, England. Boyd’s modeling career took...
Mad Day Out Muscle Man Paul
Paul goofing around during the Mad Day Out photo session, July, 28, 1968.
The Beatles in the year 2000
A Dutch magazine in May, 1969, predicted what The Beatles would look like in the year 2000.
MAD Magazine predicts what the Beatles would look like
The September 1976 MAD Magazine predicted what The Beatles and other celebrities would look like and would be doing in 1996, twenty years in the future.
To Hell with The Beatles
On September 3, 1964 during a flight from Indianapolis to Milwaukee, Paul swiped one of these anti-Beatles pin buttons from Beatles road manager Mal Evans. Evans had gotten it from flight engineer Robert Miller,...
Paul’s piano string bass
On February 12, 1961, the Beatles played the Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby, Liverpool. Bassist Chas Newby— Stu Sutcliffe’s replacement — had just quit the group to attend university and Paul reluctantly agreed...
