Paul McCartney is going to release a brand new book full of photographs over this summer called 1964: Eyes of the Storm. The book contains 275 of McCartney’s photos from six different cities including Liverpool, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami all taken in 1964. The collection is made-up of never before seen pictures of John Lennon, George harrison, and Ringo Starr as the Beatles’ start to take over the globe.
The foreword for the book from McCartney states, “What else can you call it? Pandemonium” as well as an intro written by Harvard historian Jill Lepore. It also features essays by Nicholas Cullinan and Rosie Broadley. The book will be made available on June 13th.
In a press release McCartney stated, “Anyone who rediscovers a personal relic or family treasure is instantly flooded with memories and emotions, which then trigger associations buried in the haze of time, This was exactly my experience in seeing these photos, all taken over an intense three-month period of travel, culminating in February 1964. It was a wonderful sensation to be plunged right back. Here was my own record of our first huge trip, a photographic journal of the Beatles in six cities, beginning in Liverpool and London, followed by Paris (where John and I had been ordinary hitchhikers three years before), and then what we regarded as the big time, our first visit as a group to America.”
The pictures from the book will also be displayed for the first time later on this year at London’s National Portrait Gallery from June 28th to October first.
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