two minds, one destiny

(Photos by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Robert Freeman/Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

John Lennon performing Yer Blues during the Rock and Roll Circus (1968)

Spain - 1966

The Beatles at the Velodromo Vigorelli, Milan, 24 June 1965. © Sergio del Grande

John Lennon, George Harrison filming Help!, Bahamas (1965) Photographer: Henry Grossman

John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards from The Dirty Mac performing Yer Blues (1968)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIR JAMES PAUL MCCARTNEY (June 18, 1942)

— John Lennon for the magazine Record Music, November 12, 1973.

John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin in 'A Day In The Life' recording session (1967) Photographer: Leslie Bryce Source: The Beatles Recording

The Beatles at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich (1966) Photographer: Rainer Schwanke

George Harrison, Isle of Skye Scotland, 1971, by Pattie Boyd.

The Beatles backstage at the Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland | 5 October 1963 (I)

John Lennon, 1966. (Photo by Robert Whitaker)

The musical papers that we used to read started to slag us off because we hadn’t done anything. It took five months to record Sgt. Pepper. I remember with great glee seeing in one of the papers, “Oh, the Beatles have dried up. There’s nothing coming from them. They’ve been in the studio and they can’t think of what they’re doing.” I was sort of sitting and rubbing my hands saying, “You just wait.” – Paul McCartney, 1992