The Fab Four's early years: New book shows a young John, Paul, George and Ringo singing ...
The Fab Four's early years: New book shows a young John, Paul, George and Ringo singing, playing guitar and the harmonica, taking a tea break, and joking around at Abbey Road Studios in 1963
He was already a famous fashion photographer. They were on the cusp of causing international frenzied fandom.
On September 12, 1963, Norman Parkinson photographed the Fab Four as they recorded songs at Abbey Road Studios. The photos show a young John, Paul, George and Ringo singing, playing guitar and the harmonica, taking a tea break, and joking around. Initially published that year, his photos are now part of new book, ‘The Beatles: London, 1963.’
The band’s debut single ‘Love Me Do,’ was released in the United Kingdom in October 1962 and hit number 17 on the charts. It started to turn the ‘virtual unknowns outside their native Liverpool’ - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - into pop stars, Pat Gilbert, a journalist and author, explained in the book.
Their debut album, ‘Please Please Me,’ was released in March 1963 and while The Beatles were on tour that year, there were inklings of the ‘hysterical screaming’ that would characterize the forthcoming Beatlemania, Gilbert wrote.
Source: Daily Mail
