I tried to find out a bit more about this photo. It seems to show the Beatles leaving a store with a number of purchases. The sign reads Austin Reed and Regent. Indeed: Austin Reed was and remains a clothing store in London`s Regent Street and counted the Beatles among their customers. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8536516/Superdry-in-12m-Austin-Reed-deal.html) Photographer Bill Zygmant remembers taking them there: His first photo shoot with The Beatles came shortly after they released their first record. He said: "I took them to Austin Reed's in Regent Street - they were in bowler hats, with walking sticks, as city gents really." (http://www.billzygmant.co.uk/Bill%20Zygmant%20news%20and%20exhibitions.html) And finally I found the photo as well with a caption reading: The Beatles at the Austin Reed fashion store in Upper Regent Street, London, in August 1963. Photo by Tony Gale. (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/austin-reed)
During my search I stumbled over a photo that needs to be inserted into the "Making-of-a-moptop"-timeline: http://www.dmbeatles.com/picture.php?picture=748 Not sure what they mean by "The Austin Reed Mural" or if it is related at all.
I tried to find out a bit more about this photo.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to show the Beatles leaving a store with a number of purchases. The sign reads Austin Reed and Regent.
Indeed: Austin Reed was and remains a clothing store in London`s Regent Street and counted the Beatles among their customers.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8536516/Superdry-in-12m-Austin-Reed-deal.html)
Photographer Bill Zygmant remembers taking them there:
His first photo shoot with The Beatles came shortly after they released their first record.
He said: "I took them to Austin Reed's in Regent Street - they were in bowler hats, with walking sticks, as city gents really."
(http://www.billzygmant.co.uk/Bill%20Zygmant%20news%20and%20exhibitions.html)
And finally I found the photo as well with a caption reading:
The Beatles at the Austin Reed fashion store in Upper Regent Street, London, in August 1963. Photo by Tony Gale.
(http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/austin-reed)
During my search I stumbled over a photo that needs to be inserted into the "Making-of-a-moptop"-timeline:
http://www.dmbeatles.com/picture.php?picture=748
Not sure what they mean by "The Austin Reed Mural" or if it is related at all.