Glad to see there’s still some mystery in the world… I didn’t want to share what I’d found until all of my questions about the famous finger were answered. When I finally found snapshots taken just milliseconds before, I couldn’t believe that no one had posted them online. When I first searched for an outtake online and couldn’t find one, I assumed it was a one-off. When it first became notorious, the picture was nearly twenty years old and, to this day, most people don’t know just how it happened. Images this iconic usually first appeared on the covers of albums or magazines. It is one of the most famous music photographs in history. In America they became the front cover for The Early Beatles. Black stuff white shirts and big black scarves.”įreeman climbed up into a tree for some shots that were used as the back cover. We did a session lasting a couple of hours and had some reasonable pictures to use … The photographer would always be able to say to us, ‘Just show up,’ because we all wore the same kind of gear all the time. Paul McCartney recalled: “The album cover was rather nice: Robert Freeman’s photos. An assistant held up a branch with leaves in front of the camera lens for some foreground bluriness. Freeman’s third Beatles cover in a row was shot at Hyde Park in London near the Royal Albert Hall in the fall of 1964.
The road-worn weary faces and self-depricating title say even more. Robert Freeman’s autumn scene cover photo fits the mood perfectly. Strangely enough, it too went up for auction last year, where it sold for £5,640 ($ 8,845 US) Was this common practice? Well, she received the photo back and, not only was it signed by John, but someone, presumably the doodle-prone Lennon, drew some mock ups of their, then, unreleased and, presumably, untitled album. She handed over a photo with her name and address on the back for the band to autograph to….whom? We don’t know. Slightly more believable is the story of Betty Littlewood who went to see the band at Leeds on October 22, 1964.
I’m sure Boldon Auction House authenticated the signatures but ran the story about the album title too.
The album went up for auction last year, expecting to fetch £2000-3000. But not for several British papers that ran a story about a retired nurse, a sister of a friend of Margaret’s, who gave them an album to get signed by the band. Unless they all picked “Beatles For Sale” and were all invited out of fairness….this is already sounding fishy, despite the photo of Margaret with the band (below). She submitted the name “Beatles For Sale” and received a letter to meet the band “along with three other winners”. Last year, the story emerged of Margaret Svenson and a contest she entered to name the next Beatles album. Their first gatefold LP came less than four months after their famous night with Bob Dylan and marijuana and the record shows the influence of both.Īn interesting story recently surfaced about the title of the album without any proof of its accuracy. Beatles ’65, of course, was released on December 15, 1964. Here in America, Capitol Records spread the new songs over two records, Beatles ’65 and Beatles VI. The Beatles’ fourth studio album Beatles For Sale came out fifty years ago today in their homeland.
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