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Powdered off for the shine... Today in 1964, filming of the climactic 'A Hard Day's Night' concert sequence inside Central London's Scala Theatre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_P... Among the 350 fans who were each paid a standard union fee: 13-year-old actor Phil Collins.

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The Beatles' guitar-and-vocal triple threat. Hamburg's Top Ten Club, spring 1961, through the lens of Jürgen Vollmer.

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"The Beatles make their move," said a Dutch magazine.

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With Mary and Stella at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus in New York City, today in 1974. Photo: Suzanne Vlamis.

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Today in 1967. Bottom photo: just checking to see if Hitler's still there. Every Beatles album cover was iconic. This one, like the music it adorned, elevated things to another level.

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I felt humbled when, on 30th March, 1967, The Beatles celebrated my eighth birthday by shooting the Sgt. Pepper cover at Michael Cooper’s Chelsea Manor Studios on Flood Street, just off The King's Road. The collage, designed by Peter Blake and wife Jann Haworth, had taken eight days to assemble.

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Rehearsing for The Beatles' final appearance on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' at ABC TV's Alpha Television Studios in Aston, Birmingham - today in 1965.

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Today in psychedelic '67: recording the rhythm track to 'Bad Finger Boogie' - the working title of 'With a Little Help from My Friends’. youtu.be/Ifcfb5NFNGw?... Photos: Leslie Bryce.

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Rocking the Reeperbahn. Photographed at Hamburg's Top Ten Club by Jürgen Vollmer, Spring 1961.

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25th March, 1966 - photos by Robert Whitaker.

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Today in 1968, Paul and Jane give a press conference at London’s Heathrow Airport after returning from meditation studies under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh. Officially, Paul had to oversee Apple while Jane had to act. But he’d never intended to stay longer and she didn’t like meditating.

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This week in 1962: mean, moody, magnificent... Harry Whatmough's promo shots flashed the slick new look: custom-made mohair suits from Beno Dorn in the Merseyside town of Birkenhead.

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All smiles today in 1962, during The Beatles' final Casbah performance before their third stint in Hamburg. Photo: M. Haywood.

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“The Höfner kind of dwarfed Stu a bit. He was a smallish guy, but it looked kind of heroic. He stood a certain way, he had shades, he looked the part—but he wasn’t that good a player... This Höfner violin bass… looked less daft because it was symmetrical.” The ads at right are authentic.

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George, Olivia, Denny Laine and Mal Evans attended the 'Venus and Mars' wrap party today in 1975 with Bob Dylan, Cher, David Cassidy, Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Dr. John, Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Phil Everly, José Feliciano, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, The Faces and The Jackson 5.

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Moptop or Mohawk? Photographed in Horne Brothers’ hair salon by Dezo Hoffman today in 1963.

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On this date in 1963, more than seven months after becoming a Beatle, Ringo finally sorted out his bad-hair situation. Dezo Hoffman was at Horne Brothers' barber shop on Lord Street in Liverpool to photograph Jim Cannon styling that wild thatch into what the press would call a mop-top.

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1961 & 2025. The 'V for victory' sign with the palm facing out, popularized by Winston Churchill during World War II, evolved into a symbol of peace during the second half of the 1960s.

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Hur Thur ‘n’ Everywhur.

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Selfie circa 1957. Paul operates a remote shutter release with his left hand to photograph himself and Mike with their cousin Jean and her husband Ted Merry who lived temporarily at the McCartney home following mother Mary's death. Jim is at far right.

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A 1963 teen magazine got it all wrong: the year was 1959 and the lucky girl at the Casbah was Cynthia Powell before she dyed her hair blond to look more like Brigitte Bardot for John. Now married to him, she didn't come forward...

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A lurker or a fiendish thingy? Obertauern, Austria, March ‘65. Through the lens of Robert Freeman.

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Coming next on the Buskin with The Beatles podcast: The Beatles' Most Complex Recording - Strawberry Fields Forever. www.patreon.com/BWTB

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Pattie - model, muse, photographer - born on this date in 1944. ❤️

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Obertauern, Austria, March 1965 - through the lens of Robert Freeman.

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Filmmaking could be fun.

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Released in the UK on this date in '68, three days before the US. youtu.be/uLRiGX3L-kw?... youtu.be/sa3948JzWCc?... The Feb. 8, 1968 Martin Cleaver photo (right) echoed that taken by Angus McBean on Jan. 21, 1963.

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Sheffield's City Hall today in 1963.

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Sheffield's City Hall on this date in 1963. The Beatles' set list on their tour with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez consisted of ‘Love Me Do’, ‘Misery’, ‘A Taste of Honey’, ‘Do You Want to Know a Secret’, ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.

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Eleanor Bron - Ahme in Help! - born on this date in '38. Photo: Harold Valentine.

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Feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah!

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This date in 1964, filming the A Hard Day's Night closing sequence at Gatwick Airport.

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Photographed by David Hurn at Gatwick Airport's derelict railway station - today in 1964.

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Those boys know all about the touchy-feely type... The Beatles returned to London from filming ‘Help!’ in the Bahamas on this date in 1965 - but not before Otto Storch photographed John and George with American model Sondra Peterson for McCall's magazine.

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Today in 1964, Norm and Shake (Norman Rossington and John Junkin) ordered The Beatles to stay in their hotel room and answer fan mail... before they snuck out and returned to find a waiter hiding in their wardrobe. www.tiktok.com/@beatles.../... Top photo: Astrid Kirchherr.

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Paul and Linda married at Central London's Marylebone Register Office today in 1969... after he bought her £12 wedding ring The Night Before, just as the jewellery shop was about to close. Mike McCartney was best man and Mal Evans was a witness, but none of the other Beatles were present.

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Keep your guard up and jab... Paul (left) and brother Mike with mother Mary, taken outside the family home at 72 Western Avenue in Speke by next door neighbour Barrie Jones. The McCartneys had moved there in 1947, shortly after Paul's fifth birthday.

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The word was out on this date in 1964: "the envy of every Beatle fan in Britain" who'd "won a part in their first film 'Beatlemania'" - as it was called before taking its title from a Ringo malapropism.

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Beautiful Knight. Paul became a Sir on this date in 1997, over three decades after receiving his MBE. Linda, battling cancer, wasn't there. In 2017, he would be appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for his services to music.

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Today in 1964: The Beatles’ first time at Twickenham Film Studios, where they'd subsequently also shoot 'Help!', some promo videos and 'Get Back'/'Let It Be'. They were there to film the ‘I Should Have Known Better’ sequence on a set built to resemble a train's guard van. youtu.be/BnZ6GLISwag?...

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George's mum Louise French, an avid supporter of his musical ambitions who was happy to have his group practice in their home - born on this date in 1911 in West Derby, Liverpool. Here's a brief clip of her being interviewed: www.tiktok.com/@georgeharri...

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The mood depends on who's doin' yer hur. Betty Glasow (far right) was the stylist on both A Hard Day's Night and Help!

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Ringo had a stale sandwich today in 1964. He also spoiled a game of shove ha’penny, smashed a beer glass and nearly skewered a parakeet with a dart at the Turks Head pub on Winchester Road in Twickenham… while getting to know George's new friend a little better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjd2...

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Today in 1963, five days after ending their first UK tour, The Beatles began their second, headlined by American chart stars Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. Montez closed one show and Roe the other at the Granada Cinema in East Ham, East London. But that would soon change… Photos: Harry Hammond.

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Today in 1964, the end of filming aboard a train for A Hard Day's Night. These portraits were shot during the first week by Max Scheler.

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The City Gent - through the lens of Astrid Kirchherr this week in 1964.

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The bloke next to Ringo knows it's not his night, backstage at the Royal Hall in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on this date in 1963. The autograph hunters were (top row, left to right) Joan Greeney, Sue Kershaw,

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On this date in 1963, Harrogate's Royal Hall hosted The Beatles' only concert in the Yorkshire spa town. Here is a fan's firsthand recollection: www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/heritage-and...

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This date in ‘58: rehearsing and playing at the wedding reception of Paul’s cousin Ian Harris at the home of Auntie Gin. Ian’s friend Dennis Littler is at far right in the bottom right photo taken by Paul’s brother Mike.

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