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It’s the 50th anniversary of The Beatles Please Please Me album release (March 22th 1963). The album contained the “A” and “B” sides of their first two singles, plus 10 new songs all recorded in one session at Abbey Road on Monday, February 11th 1963.
On the bus to school, he met Paul McCartney, who later became a member the Quarrymen and introduced him to John Lennon.
In March 1958, Harrison auditioned for the Quarrymen playing “Guitar Boogie Shuffle”. Lennon felt that Harrison, then 14, was too young to join the band.
The Beatles performed at Shea Stadium in New York City, on August 15th, 1965. The concert was a milestone in musical history as one of the first major stadium concerts.
Benson was warmly welcomed into The Beatles’ inner sanctum, resulting in some of the most intimate photographs ever taken of the band, then on the cusp of world domination. In Paris, he took the famous photograph of the Fab Four having a pillow fight at the George V Hotel
A gallery of George Harrison’s images, from early ’70 to late in that decade
Rare and unpublished early colour photos of The Beatles on tour are to be sold at auction. They were taken during the Fab Four’s triumphant summer 1964 visit to the US, when most early photos of the band, and even films, were in black and white.