Author(s): Mark Hayward

Music

A major collection of Beatles photographs, from every stage of their career, seen for the first time.
Mark Hayward has long collected photographs and has built up a comprehensive collection of Beatles images, from early photographs of John as a small schoolboy to the last photograph taken before he was shot. Other material includes early photographs of Ringo as a Butlin's Redcoat and playing with Rory Storm, the Australian tour of 1964 when Ringo was replaced by Jimmy Nicol, many of the 1964 tour locations including Sunderland, Blackpool and Dundee, Germany in 1966, colour photographs from the Mad Day Out taken during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour in Cornwall, the filming of the Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields For Ever video, filming A Hard Day's Night, early photographs of sitar lessons in India before their Ashram phase, Ringo and John on holiday together with their wives, and a host of other unseen images of 'the greatest band on earth' at work and at play.