1964 by Paul Mccartney

1964 by Paul Mccartney

Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. Featuring 275 images from the six cities--Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami--of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes:

* A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit

* Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the "Eyes of the Storm," plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964

* "Beatleland," an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass culture phenomenon

Handsomely designed, 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic record of The Beatles' first transatlantic trip, documenting the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964.

"You could hold your camera up to the world, in 1964. But what madness would you capture, what beauty, what joy, what fury?" --Jill Lepore

"1964: Eyes of the Storm..deserves to be received with the same gravity you'd pay any primary source for any great historical event... The adulation and protection and scrutiny coming from the subjects of these photos are being seen by the person who is the object of it... No matter how friendly he found the faces looking at him, this is the work of an idol in the making determined to stay a subject instead of becoming an object.... There’s an effortless familiarity to the shots of the boys reading the newspaper in their Plaza suite or looking up in the midst of a conversation halfway across the Atlantic, no guardedness when their eyes meet their mate’s camera.... For all of the generosity with which McCartney talks about America, for all the awe the group felt at being here and being accepted here, the photos show all the ways in which the Beatles, even before they arrived, had already outpaced the country.... [A] wonderful book, with its photos of a superpower as a sleepy giant, a country where most of the people couldn't see the future beyond a continuation of the sameness in which they already lived." -- Charles Taylor - Esquire
"Who wouldn't want a peek at Paul McCartney's personal pics of The Beatles?...There are pictures of aching intimacy... And, inevitably, photos that will make you feel a pang for the band's fishbowl existence." -- Kim Willis - USA Today
"Beguiling...Thoughtful recollections... There is something for every Beatles aficionado in the 275 glorious images in these images...Open this book, and for a few magic moments, you'll be right there, too." -- Charles Kaiser - The Washington Post

Born in Liverpool in 1942, Paul McCartney was raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool Institute. Since writing his first song at fourteen, McCartney has dreamed and dared to be different. He lives in England. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9781324093060
ISBN 10	1324093064
Title	1964
Author	Paul Mccartney
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2023-06-13
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.