Paul McCartney gallery #1
A gallery of Paul McCartney’s images mostly from the ’70 and mostly with Linda.
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The Beatles honoured with an MBE
The Beatles visited Buckingham Palace to receive their MBE medals from the Queen on October 16, 1965; two years later they wore them for the album cover photograph of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Four years later John returned his in protest at British involvement in the Biafran war, Vietnam and “against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts.”
Mad Day Out
On July 28, 1968, The Beatles went out for a photo shoot with a couple of photographers – Stephen Goldblatt and Don McCullin to take a break from recording the White Album. It became known as the “Mad Day Out”.
The Beatles in India (part 1)
The Beatles visited Rishikesh in India in February 1968 to attend an advanced Transcendental Meditation training session at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Abbey Road crossing photo session
Some months ago (May 2012) a rare photo of the Beatles walking in the opposite direction from the original album cover on Abbey Road was put up for auction.
The photo on the sleeve of Abbey Road album was taken by photographer Iain McMillan on August 8, 1969. He had 10 minutes to do the shoot and he took six photographs of the Beatles walking backwards and forwards across the zebra crossing.
EMI Balcony Photo Session
The story of two photo sessions and the different album covers based on. The photo session took place at the EMI house in Manchester Square, London around mid-February 1963.