A rainy welcome

June 11, 1964 -  Sydney Australia

The ticker-tape parade that never happened

55 years ago on June 3, 1964, the Beatles DID NOT have a ticker-tape parade.   They just faked like they had one for a photo shoot.   Notice how John, Paul, and Ringo are putting forth some effect to fake wave and smile to the fake fans?    Not so much with George.   He hated ticker tape parades, as he said in this 1987 interview with Rolling Stone.

They kept planning these ticker-tape parades through San Francisco, and I was saying, "I absolutely don't want to do that."

Back to work boys!

No sooner did all four Beatles get back from their holiday that they went right back to work -- giving interviews on May 30, 1964.

She's not my girlfriend -- just my secretary

Did anyone believe the story that Ringo was trying to tell that went along with these photos that Maureen was his secretary and nothing more?   Maybe some would have believed it if these photos weren't published.  But come on --- no one snuggles up with their secretary like that unless something is going on romantically.

Back from Holiday

May 27, 1964:  Paul, Jane, Ringo, and Maureen return to London from their holiday.   Of course, there is a fan waiting for them with pen and paper in hand. 

Out in the sun (55 years ago)

Octopus' Garden

A not so happy holiday

We are the originals

Winners of the 1964 NME Awards

Literacy Luncheon

April 23, 1964 --color photographs from the luncheon honoring John and his book. 

We turn the sound down on her and say rude things

Hands up -- who else loves this scene for A Hard Day's Night?     I think it is one of the funniest scenes in the entire film.    Geroge delivered those lines with such humor.    Well -- this scene was filmed 55 years ago on April 13, 1964   (along with another great scene -- John in the bathtub). 

We would never have guessed it was him....

You may telephone from here

This HAS to be one of the strangest movie trailers of all time!

George was not prepared for the sword fight

The Carl Awards

Life in the fish bowl