The first and last photos of The Beatles together on 22nd August 1962 and 22nd August 1969

Caffeine_Vampire · August 2022

mudslide73 · August 2022

I assume this is the first pic with Ringo in situ.. amazing coincidence on the dates also. It's staggering what they achieved in those years.

DrCornelius · August 2022

Awesome, the older I get the more I appreciate them for some reason.

I know the beards don't help but John and George especially look like they have aged way beyond the 7 years gap

lustycourtier · August 2022

Ringos first gig was at Port Sunlight Village hall so Surely itd be this picture which was 18th Aug?

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/beatles-birthplace-marked-halls-new-3340639

RocknRollDave · August 2022

Amazing!

Recently watched the Get Back series and also reacquainted myself with the Anthology albums…Mind-blowing stuff, really.

Philly_Q · August 2022

mudslide73 said:

I assume this is the first pic with Ringo in situ.. amazing coincidence on the dates also. It's staggering what they achieved in those years.

And also how much the world changed - socially, culturally - over such a short time. It'll never happen again.

Caffeine_Vampire · August 2022

lustycourtier said:

Ringos first gig was at Port Sunlight Village hall so Surely itd be this picture which was 18th Aug?

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/beatles-birthplace-marked-halls-new-3340639

It could well be. It was a Facebook post I nicked. Even if the dates aren't entirely accurate to see them bookended like that is a shock considering their output at the beginning and at the end. There was another post which was the last photo of them all together on Beatles duty before it was only business meetings and court appearances.

Danny1969 · August 2022

The craziest thing to me is the fact in that picture in 62, they were a covers band. They didn't have an albums worth of original material to record like Oasis or Dire Straights did. They had a few songs but the amount they managed to write in the next 7 years was just staggering, not just in quality but in diversity and quality as well.

lustycourtier · August 2022

Caffeine_Vampire said:

lustycourtier said:

Ringos first gig was at Port Sunlight Village hall so Surely itd be this picture which was 18th Aug?

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/beatles-birthplace-marked-halls-new-3340639

It could well be. It was a Facebook post I nicked. Even if the dates aren't entirely accurate to see them bookended like that is a shock considering their output at the beginning and at the end. There was another post which was the last photo of them all together on Beatles duty before it was only business meetings and court appearances.

I just know the 1st gig fact as the venue is round the corner from me and I play there quite often. Theres a little museum etc.

Litterick · August 2022

The Port Sunlight photo must be some time later: they have suits and haircuts. They look like the Beatles.

Litterick · August 2022

An explanation of the photo: Monty Lister interviews the Beatles at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight on 27th October 1962. It was included with JBCD Box 1, the Japanese export compilation released in 1987. The man at the back is Alan Williams, the first manager of the Beatles.

Image: https://i.discogs.com/EWtkQXds3m8M-ztxkyjbOQU0NTynk4_gmWnk1Kr0MeA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNjIx/MzA5LTE1MDEyNTg0/NDgtNjIzMS5tcG8.jpeg

ICBM · August 2022

Another detail which fascinates me is that when Paul played his old Höfner bass on the rooftop, it looked like - and was, really - a relic of a long-gone earlier era.

It was six years old. That’s like playing a guitar from 2016 today.

The world really did change out of all recognition during - and I honestly think at least partly due to - their recording career.

lustycourtier · August 2022

Litterick said:

An explanation of the photo: Monty Lister interviews the Beatles at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight on 27th October 1962. It was included with JBCD Box 1, the Japanese export compilation released in 1987. The man at the back is Alan Williams, the first manager of the Beatles.

ah thats interesting cheers. The venue has that photo up but credit it as taken the first Ringo gig. However they played there 4 times so you are correct.

Here I am in the same doorway 49 years and 10 months later

https://imgur.com/gallery/Gb0gM62

ArchtopDave · August 2022

Philly_Q said:

mudslide73 said:

I assume this is the first pic with Ringo in situ.. amazing coincidence on the dates also. It's staggering what they achieved in those years.

And also how much the world changed - socially, culturally - over such a short time. It'll never happen again.

These were the years when I may have, or may have not, "grown up".

I was 14 years old at the time of the first photo, and 21 when the second one was taken.

Caffeine_Vampire · August 2022

We won't see a popular musical revolution like that again. Its been ever decreasing circles ever since. I've been mining Beatle music for 30 years and it still gives up the goods. Amazing.

roberty · August 2022

Revolution in the Head is a great read for anyone interested in the Beatles' development and how it tracked the social and technological upheaval of the 1960s

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