#all together now
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, directed by Ron Howard, will premiere in London on 15 September 2016 and is set to be released in cinemas globally on 16 September 2016, The Beatles official Twitter has announced! For more, including the trailer, please visit thebeatleseightdaysaweek.com.
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Scan - This photo of me with Paul, George and Ringo was taken by John Lennon with my camera at the George V in Paris at about two in the morning. “Now it’s your turn, Harry,” he said. They had just finished a show at theOlympia, recalled photographer Harry Benson in the book “The Beatles in the Beginning”
Photo: John Lennon
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The Beatles, 1964, photographed by Jerry Schatzberg.
Photo © Jerry Schatzberg
“They became the closest friends I’d ever had. I was an only child and suddenly I felt as though I’d got three brothers. We really looked out for each other and we had many laughs together.” - Ringo Starr
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The Beatles clowning around next to their band van, outside the BBC Paris Theatre, London, 4 April 1963
Photo: Dezo Hoffmann (?)
“We laughed a lot. That’s one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time…” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology[x]
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Scans - (Photo 1) Paul McCartney takes a photograph of John Lennon during the “Paperback Writer” recording session, Abbey Road Studios, 13/14 April 1966; (photo 2) the resulting image. Scanned from The Beatles Book
“Looking back in it with John, you know, he was a really great guy. I always idolised him. We always did, the group. I don’t know if the others will tell you that, but he was our idol.” - Paul McCartney, 1987
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Courtesy of YouTube (via: Unreleased Beatles Vids/Music), The Beatles’ home video footage recorded at Sefton Park, Liverpool, on 25 March 1963. Segments of this footage was included in The Beatles Anthology,Living in the Material World, and Paul McCartney’s “My Brace Face” music video.
“As a band, we were tight. That was one thing to be said about us; we were really tight, as friends. We could argue a lot amongst ourselves, but we were very, very close to each other, and in the company of other people or other situations we’d always stick together.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology[x]
The Beatles, Hamburg, late 1962, photographed by Astrid Kirchherr (previously posted at thateventuality here).
“They believed in each other so much - and that’s hard to find. It was in their bodies and souls - this is what we’re going to do, and we’re going to be together for the rest of our lives.” - Roy Young on The Beatles, UNCUT, March 2012 [x]
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John Lennon backstage, 1963. Photo © Pictorial Press Limited.
“It’s still weird to even say, ‘before he died.’ I still can’t come to terms with it. I still don’t believe. It’s like, you know, these dreams you have, where he’s still alive; then you wake up and… 'Oh.’” - Paul McCartney
Q: “George, what do you miss most about John Lennon?”
George Harrison: “John Lennon.” - Yahoo web chat, 15 February 2001 [x]“John was the kindest person I ever knew. he was the only one of the four of us who would give you his soul… And I loved the man dearly.” - Ringo Starr [x]
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The Beatles reading fan mail, Green Street, London, 9 October 1963. Photo © The Beatles Book.
“I’d like to say thank you to all the Beatle people who have written to me during the year and everybody who sent gifts and cards for my birthday, which I’m trying to forget, in October. I’d love to reply personally to everybody but I just haven’t enough pens.” - John Lennon, The Beatles Christmas Record (1963)
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“Although there were four of us, there was one of us. All our hearts were beating at the same time.”
- Ringo Starr
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Screen shots of George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr from The Beatles Anthology Special Features “Recollections,” Friar Park, June 1994:
Ringo: “It’s been really beautiful and moving. I like hanging out with you guys.”
Paul: “Little choochie face!”
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