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The Beatles Once Upon a Time
Vendome Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
176 pages
ISBN: 0865651892
EAN: 9780865651890
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon A Time documents the
Beatles and the city of their birth during the making of
their first film, A Hard Day’s Night, in 1964. It captures
the rhythm and texture of the tough English port city where
the smell of cigarettes and seawater mingled and the strains
of pop music were transformed by an early 1960s music scene
that gave birth to the Mersey Beat and the greatest band of
all time. Before they achieved world fame, the Beatles perfected their
craft in another port of call, the northern German city of
Hamburg. There they met Astrid Kirchherr, a budding
photographer who became close friends with the band and
later was engaged to the Beatles’ original bass player,
Stuart Sutcliffe. Some four years later—by which time the
Beatles had conquered the world—Kirchherr with Max Scheler
visited the band and took the photographs that appear in
this book. Kirchherr and Scheler focused on the Beatles in
private and public moments, during the filming, and also on
the city itself, on the streets, the music scene, the
people, evoking for us today the gritty humor and passion of
1960s Liverpudlians. This book offers a moving testament to the inspirational
effect of the Beatles’ success on their hometown as well as
an important chapter of the Beatles’ almost- mythic story.
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