“Usually, I tell people I want to get somewhere quietly, and it turns out that everyone knows. A hundred people are in on the secret. I know what it is; the airline likes to get you photographed with the name. This time, we just drove into Delhi, got a ticket, and that was it. We stopped off in Tehran and this bloke from the airline came up and said, ‘Excuse me, are you one of The Beatles?’ So I said, ‘No,’ and he just walked away and that was that. I guess we’re not too big in Tehran.”
[Ringo]
Paul and Jane and Ringo and Maureen fly from London Airport to Delhi, India on the 19th February 1968. In the first photo, Jane’s parents Dr Richard Asher and Margaret Asher are behind Paul and Jane - they’d come to see them off - and in the second photo, Peter Brown accompanies Ringo and Maureen.