Screaming Beatles Fans – 1960’s
September 25, 2009
Girls went NUTS over The Beatles. Most of these images are circa 1964.
Image: Getty
The Mellotron – Changing Pop Music in the 1960’s
August 20, 2009
A Mellotron M400 in clear lucite
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tapes, which have approximately eight seconds of playing time each. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. (Info via Wikipedia)
The Mellotron was used by British rock artists Graham Bond and Mike Pinder before it was used and brought to public popularity by The Beatles in the song “Strawberry Fields Forever”
Check out the Mellotron below in action:
Original 1967 Beatles “Yellow Submarine” Animation Production Cel – Four Beatles on One Cel
May 24, 2009
This cel is extremely special and extraordinarily rare because it features all four of The Beatles on 1 cel. Thanks to Jessica for sharing this with me.
Richard Avedon – Solarized Images of The Beatles
January 2, 2009
I love this solarized photography series by Richard Avedon of The Beatles for LOOK Magazine which ran in the January 12, 1968 issue.
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
January 12, 1968 issue of LOOK Magazine
The Invisible Agent 