Rare shots of The Beatles’ first trip to America go on display at Soho restaurant
Unpublished photographs of the Beatles taken on their first trip to America in 1964 have gone on show for the first time.
Collector Edward Adams, 55, has picked 20 images from his library of more than 1,000 candid shots of the band by photographer Joe Allen.
They were taken during the first of the Fab Four’s two trips to America in 1964, which sparked Beatlemania across the country.
The collection details how the Beatles — John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney — arrived in New York on February 7 on Pan-Am Flight 101 before playing concerts on the East Coast.
The photographs show the band performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, relaxing on a yacht — lent to them in Miami by furniture tycoon Bernard Castro — and playing in the sea.
They are also pictured meeting Muhammad Ali, then still known as Cassius Clay, at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami where the boxer was training.
Other images show McCartney and Harrison on a train from New York to Washington DC, after their flight was cancelled due to snow, and the band chatting and laughing with female fans.
By: Lizzie Edmonds
Source: Evening Standard
