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PHOTO GALLERY
Yesterday
Through all the madness of Beatlemania, to the private moments of inspiration, the most celebrated pop group of all time brought joy to the worlds they conquered
SHOUT! Beatlemania began to explode in the U.K. in April 1963, when the band posed atop a WWII bomb site in London.
I DON’T KNOW WHY you say goodbye, I say hello." As the four Beatles greeted their futures as solo artists, fans mourned when, in April 1970, news of their split became public. It felt as if an era had ended, but in fact the band’s lifespan was shockingly brief: Just 10 years had passed since John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and their pre-Ringo Starr bandmates, Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best, performed as the Beatles for the first time at Hamburg’s Indra Club in the summer of 1960. And it was a mere four years since the hysteria known as Beatlemania cooled to a simmer after the Fab Four quit touring and sequestered themselves to create a series of studio albums that revolutionized pop music. Today, a full half-century into their afterlife, the Beatles’ popularity exists less in screaming fans than in streaming fans: Within days of going on sale last year, a remastered version of 1969’s Abbey Road scored 1.7 billion Spotify streams, nearly half of them by people born after the band’s demise. In the following pages People revisits the Beatles, from their exhilarating rise to their last hours, in words and pictures. We hope you will enjoy the show.
YOUNG AND HUNGRY They were incredibly charismatic,
a fan said of John, George, Paul and then-drummer Pete Best (in Wallasey, England, 1961).
THEIR FIRST NO. 1 Please Please Me
topped a U.K. singles chart in February ’63, earning the Beatles (including new drummer Ringo Starr) and producer George Martin a silver sales award.
CROWD CONTROL Besieged by roiling mobs at every stop when they toured the U.K. in the fall of ’63, the lads saluted Birmingham police who smuggled them to a gig in the back of their van.
OFFSTAGE SCENES In October 1963 the Beatles lunched in London with road manager Neil Aspinall (far left), a schoolmate of Paul’s and George’s who went on to head the band’s company Apple Corps.
George and John rehearsed in a loo during the 1964 U.S. tour.
And in Miami Beach the band met Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) in February that year. Hello there, Beatles!
said Ali. We oughta do some road shows together. We’ll get rich!
BIG CHILL The Beatles took a dip in an unheated Miami pool for Life in February ’64. All four, photographer John Loengard once recalled, started turning blue.
Loengard, who helped found People in 1974, died this year at age 85.
NY THE BEATLES The Aug. 15, 1965, Shea Stadium crowd was the largest to date for a rock show. Among the 56,000 fans were future Beatles brides Linda Eastman (Paul) and Barbara Bach (Ringo).
WE DIDN’T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT, AS NO ONE HAD EVER PLAYED A STADIUM SHOW BEFORE. WE COULDN’T REALLY HEAR OURSELVES WHEN WE PLAYED, AS THE CROWD [WAS] SO LOUD
—PAUL McCARTNEY
HELP! Signs of creative malaise were visible on the set of the 1965 film Help!. The band came back stronger that year with the Rubber Soul LP, the first of their towering mid-career achievements.
REVOLVER When Paul said that the Beatles’ new album contained sounds nobody else has done—ever,
the sonic revolutions of Revolver, recorded in 1966, proved him right.
ROCK STAR TREK Let fans debate Stones vs. Beatles. Longtime pal Mick Jagger joined Paul and the others in 1967 to meet guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Bangor, Wales. While there they learned that their manager Brian Epstein had died at 32.
THEY HAD ON THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LONG, BLACK LEATHER TRENCH COATS. I THOUGHT, ‘IF I HAVE TO LEARN TO WRITE SONGS TO GET ONE OF THOSE, I WILL’
—MICK JAGGER, ON FIRST MEETING THE BEATLES IN 1963
NOT-SO-LONELY HEARTS The mood of the album was in the spirit of the age,
said Paul in 1995. The band introduced Sgt. Pepper’s to the press at Brian Epstein’s London home in May 1967, the start of the Summer of Love.