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Authors: Hunter Davies

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Paul, John and George in German leather with cowboy overtones, on a roof in Hamburg, 1961.

 

Paul and John in underpants.
The Beatles going up in the world – in a lift at the Lonsdale Cinema in Carlisle, November 21, l963, before their performance. They had been smuggled in by a back door and into a goods lift to avoid the screaming teenagers in the road outside. A fierce looking cinema attendant stands guard. Photo by Jim Turner of the
Cumberland News
– reproduced in a book for the first time.

 

Beatles Monthly
: the British fan club magazine was launched in August 1963, and ran for 77 editions, until December 1969.

 

The cover of the sheet music edition of ‘Please Please Me’, released in January 1963, which became the Beatles’ first number one record.

 

Official handout photo, 1963.

 

The Beatles, 1965.

 

The Beatles, 1967.

 

The Beatles, 1968.

 

Brian Epstein. He became the Beatles’ manager in December 1961.

 

Celebration dinner at the George V in Paris in January 1963 for the news that ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ had become Number One in the USA. Left to right: Judy Martin, Ringo, George, Paul, John and George Martin. Brian Epstein is wearing a chamber pot.

 

Handwritten instructions by Brian Epstein on how to get to his country home, on the back of which George wrote his recently discovered lyric (
see here
).

 

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