The Beatles ... August 1969 on their first tour of America , while on a few days rest before appearing at rhe Hollywood Bowl .
Press conference at Maple Leaf Garden in Toronto on September 7 , 1964 .
During every show Paul would ask the audience to stomp their feet and clap their hands . This is John's illustration of that . Taken at Municipal Statium .
Paul Mc Cartney and John Lennon at Crosley Field , Cincinnati , Ohio September 21 , 1966.
Paul McCartney , turns away from the audience and seeing Bob Bonis on the side of the stage with his camera , gives him a big and beautiful smile . Metropolitan Stadium , Bloomington , Minnesota on August 21 , 1965 .
John, Paul, George and Ringo are not just the most famous rock musicians of all time, they're also four extremely photogenic gents . The proof is in the archives, thanks to the group's tour manager Bob Bonis. From 1964-1966, Bonis captured the Beatles in action on their first American tours.
Their manager took over 800 photographs of the rock icons during this two-year period, capturing a candid POV different from the posed 'Beatlemania' photos of the time. For years, very few people even knew Bonis' archive existed, let alone had seen the photographs themselves. But when he passed away in 1992, his son brought the images to a specialist in rock-in-roll memorabilia , where their value was appreciated by an outsider for the first time.
Check out the Fab Four hanging out by the pool, goofing around onstage and making the world fall in love with them all over again at The Betsy Hotel in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach in December .
I think my life changed forever on this day which was Labor Day, back in 1964 when my cousin got tickets for my brother and I to see the Beatles. It was my 1st concert. I was 10 years old at the time, but a die hard Beatles fan regardless. I was just a little disappointed with my cousin when he told us he'd exchanged our front row tickets and given them to a woman who had brought her grandson to the concert. We couldn't take very good pictures unfortunately from the seats we were in. Aside from that I am very thankful to have seen them. It's almost impossible to put into words the feeling I had that day!!
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