Rare Beatles

john looks so cute in this picture, my heart can’t take it.

“When I first met her, I realised that as a photographer she was very sympathetic. It’s now 10 years since she died and probably 40 years since we first met. I can still recall our first meeting. It was at a London club, the Bag O’ Nails, when Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were playing one night. Across a crowded room, as they say, our eyes met and the violins started playing – but they were drowned out by, of all people, Georgie Fame. Another northerner. There was an immediate attraction between us. As she was leaving – she was with the group the Animals, whom she’d been photographing – I saw an obvious opportunity. I said: “My name’s Paul. What’s yours?” I think she probably recognised me. It was so corny, but I told the kids later that, had it not been for that moment, none of them would be here. Later that night, we went on together to another club, the Speakeasy. It was our first date and I remember I heard Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale for the first time. It became our song” - Paul McCartney, April 6, 2008, The Sunday Times

John at his most relaxed and happy, thoughts drowned out by the roar of the sea, feeling joy, feeling serenity - all those feelings you have when you’re seated at the edge of a cliff with the water surging blue and white below, the air imbued with mist tossed up by the waves. It’s pure beauty … beautiful purity.

 Photos from Meet The Beatles For Real

Studio 5AB, Rediffusion’s Wembley Studios, London, April 28 1964.

Yeah I’m a mama’s boy. Deal with it. @nero_magazine @yokoonoofficial photo by @gregkadelstudios