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'Lennon-McCartney' TV Special, November 1965.

#1965 #The Beatles

John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Brian Epstein in a car in a motorcade after arrival at RCAF Station at Sea Island in Richmond on August 22, 1964 for a concert at Empire Stadium.

Photograph by Deni England, Vancouver Sun

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Lyon, 1965.

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What is there?

Taken by Ringo…

#1964 #Abbey Road Studio #A hard day's night session

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Derek Taylor and an unidentified friend at the Cinnamon Cinder press conference in Los Angeles, 23 August 1964.

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Returning from Sweden, July 30, 1964.

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Palazzo dello Sport, Genoa, Italy. 26 June 1965.

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Back in ‘63 and ‘64, they had to write numbers late at night in hotel rooms. They would work into the early hours of the morning and, in the dead of night, you would hear Paul yell across the room, something like, ‘Hey, John. What rhymes with girl?’

Neil Aspinall, 1965 (via andthebandbeginstoplay)

#quotes

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#Paul McCartney #1966 #aw #perfect #those eyes

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Reblog this if you think they should show "A Hard Day's Night" in theaters for its 50th anniversary.

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Press: Some people have been calling your work ‘un-American.’ How do you respond? John: Well, that’s very observant of them.

Press: What about this campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles? Paul: We’re starting a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

Press (to George): You’re not married. George: No, I’m George.

Press: What did you think when your airliner’s engine began smoking as you landed? Ringo: Beatles, women, and children first!

#The Beatles #gifs #1963 #1964 #1966 #fun

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The atmosphere [on 7 December 1963 in Liverpool] was just amazing. I remember George waving out of an upstairs dressing room window and the screams from the waving girls down in Pudsey Street, which was completely packed. I was just so very proud that a group from Liverpool was causing such excitement throughout the whole country. And when I saw them trapped in that upstairs room, I thought back to not much more than a year before when I’d seen Paul walking down Mathew Street in his black leather jacket with a guitar slung over his shoulder, and he would have had to come in on the bus from Allerton, and people were just saying, ‘Hiya Paul, all right Wack’, that kind of thing.

Ray O’Brien, quoted in Beatlemania! The Real Story Of The Beatles UK Tours 1963-1965 by Martin Creasy (via thateventuality)

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Happy Birthday Rubber Soul! (b. 3 Dec, 1965)

“Grass was really influential in a lot of our changes, especially with the writers. And because they were writing different material, we were playing differently. We were expanding in all areas of our lives, opening up to a lot of different attitudes…This was the departure record.” Ringo

“We were just getting better, technically and musically, that’s all. Finally we took over the studio. In the early days we had to take what we were given – we didn’t know how we could get more bass. We were learning the technique on ‘Rubber Soul.’ We were more precise about making the album, that’s all.” John

“The direction was moving away from the poppy stuff… The early material was directly related to our fans, saying, ‘Please buy this record,’ but now we’d come to a point where we thought, ‘We’ve done that. Now we can branch out into songs that are more surreal, a little more entertaining.’” Paul

“‘Rubber Soul’ was my favorite album, even at that time. I think that it was the best one we made; we certainly knew we were making a good album. We did spend a bit more time on it and tried new things. But the most important thing about it was that we were suddenly hearing sounds that we weren’t able to hear before.” George