The Beatles’ first visit to America, 1964, in photos. Complement with the famous lost Beatles photographs taken by their tour manager, Linda McCartney’s tender portraits and Harry Benson’s luminous black-and-white photos of the Fab Four, and their final photo shoot.
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On this day in 1964, The Ed Sullivan Show broadcast The Beatles’ first U.S. performance at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. A new era of music and media was ushered in as 73 million viewers watched the rock and roll phenomenon perform on television.
Photograph by James and Karla Murray from their breathtaking New York Nights – a typographic tour of NYC by dark.
This must be the golden age of newly uncovered Beatles photographs – after those by Linda McCartney, Harry Benson, and Beatles tour manager Bob Bonis, a new set emerges from New York photographer Henry Grossman.
Complement with The Beatles’ final photoshoot.
