Brian Epstein, George V Hotel, Paris, January 1964. (Photos by Paul McCartney)
Touring enabled McCartney to spend more time with people and to get to know them better, including the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein. Looking back on the photographs today, McCartney says of those moments, ‘We had all these opportunities: seeing Brian, who we normally just sat and talked business with, but now here he was on tour with us and so we could have a lot of fun… play cards together and eat together, so it was more intimate. We became much more used to each other.’
His affectionate portraits of Epstein are particularly poignant. In one sequence, Epstein laughed in delight as he realised McCartney was snapping his picture.
- Rosie Broadley (1964: Eyes of the Storm)


















