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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 Dayโs 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 Beatlesโ original bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. Some four years laterโby which time the Beatles had conquered the worldโKirchherr 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 Beatlesโ success on their hometown as well as an important chapter of the Beatlesโ almost- mythic story.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - January 15, 2008
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