Authors: Hunter Davies
Beatles (72 page)
Ringo, aged ten, with his mother, Elsie.
Ringo, aged about eight.
Ringo being silly, 1960.
George (right), aged 15 and with his hair up, at his first dance.
Ringo (right), aged 16 in an early job as a barman on a ferry boat.
A recently discovered photo of the Quarrymen playing on the back of a lorry on the day that John first met Paul, at the St Peter’s Church Fete, Woolton, July 6, l957. Left to right: Pete Shotton, Eric Griffiths, Len Garry (with his back to the camera), John Lennon, Colin Hanton on drums, Rod Davis standing. It was Rod Davis’ dad who took the photo, part of an old roll of negatives, never printed at the time, shoved in a drawer and forgotten. In 2009, Rod discovered the photo using a modern negative scanner and was able to see it for the first time, 52 years after the photo had been taken.
John leading the Quarrymen – photo from around 1957.
Ringo, aged about 15, enjoying himself with friends.
George in Hamburg, with Stu in the background.
The Beatles with some of the staff of EMI – an unpublished photograph, taken around January, 1964.
Notes from John about ‘Lucy in the Sky’.
John at the microphone.
Ringo, the teenage Teddy Boy. His grey streak is already beginning to show.
Ringo, aged about eight.
Ringo being silly, 1960.
George (right), aged 15 and with his hair up, at his first dance.
Ringo (right), aged 16 in an early job as a barman on a ferry boat.
A recently discovered photo of the Quarrymen playing on the back of a lorry on the day that John first met Paul, at the St Peter’s Church Fete, Woolton, July 6, l957. Left to right: Pete Shotton, Eric Griffiths, Len Garry (with his back to the camera), John Lennon, Colin Hanton on drums, Rod Davis standing. It was Rod Davis’ dad who took the photo, part of an old roll of negatives, never printed at the time, shoved in a drawer and forgotten. In 2009, Rod discovered the photo using a modern negative scanner and was able to see it for the first time, 52 years after the photo had been taken.John leading the Quarrymen – photo from around 1957.
Ringo, aged about 15, enjoying himself with friends.
George in Hamburg, with Stu in the background.
The Beatles with some of the staff of EMI – an unpublished photograph, taken around January, 1964.
Notes from John about ‘Lucy in the Sky’.
John at the microphone.
Ringo, the teenage Teddy Boy. His grey streak is already beginning to show.
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