Rare Beatles photos on display
Shots taken during 1967 recording session
A set of previously unseen photographs of The Beatles are to go on display in New York.
The never-before-seen snaps, taken by David Magnus, will debut at the Morrison Hotel Gallery on June 1 in an exhibition titled All You Need Is Love. The candid shots show the band recording their famous 1967 single for TV show
the first international television production broadcast by satellite.
“This show represents the first coming together of music and technology through satellite broadcasting whose purpose was to reach a worldwide audience,” Peter Blachley, Morrison Hotel Gallery co-owner and founder, told Fox News.
“We think nothing of it today, took top honours at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
The star-packed Sundance Film Festival hit, about indigenous however 50 years ago it was a very big deal. A big deal made even bigger by the fact that the best band on the planet, The Beatles, chose to send a message of love, hope and healing, which we hope will be even more evident in this show today.”
It’s estimated that 400 million musicians who have shaped popular music, won the $50,000 Rogers Audience Award for best Canadian feature-length film.
It also won the Audience Award.
Audience votes also awarded Hot Docs people across the world watched the broadcast.
Magnus met the British band, — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — when he was just 19 in 1963, before the group hit the big time. He went on to follow the band with his camera and became good friends with the Fab Four and their publicist Tony Barrow.
“As I came from the EMI (Records) canteen, one of the female studio staff stopped me, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, ‘I must touch you as you’ve been in the same room as The Beatles,’ ” Magnus recalled to Fox. “It was as if I carried an aura from The Beatles. This to me sums up Beatlemania.”
All You Need Is Love runs until June 13, with the images also available for sale to the public for the first time. the top short documentary prize to while
was chosen as the top mid-length documentary.
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