The Mad Day Out: ubicación tres
After their photography session at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill, The Beatles’ Mad Day Out continued towards Highgate Cemetery in north London. The Beatles wanted to be photographed by Karl Marx’s tomb in the eastern part of the cemetery, but got no further than Swain’s Lane outside. They posed on a bench outside 79 […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación cuatro
The fourth location in the Mad Day Out, in which The Beatles were photographed in various places around London, was in Old Street, a busy thoroughfare in the north of the city. They arrived shortly after 6pm, and went to the island in the middle of the busy roundabout. Using a plank of wood, they […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación cinco
After striking numerous poses on a traffic island in Old Street, north London, The Beatles travelled to St Pancras Old Church and Gardens near Regent’s Park, where some of the best-known photographs of the Mad Day Out were taken. Firstly, photographer Don McCullin snapped the group as they stood on a small grass knoll to […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación siete
The final location of The Beatles’ Mad Day Out, in which hundreds of photographs were taken around London in the course of a day, was 7 Cavendish Avenue, Paul McCartney’s house in St John’s Wood, north London. The shoot took place inside the geodesic dome that McCartney had constructed in his back garden. As the […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación uno
In the early summer of 1968, Paul McCartney telephoned esteemed war photographer Don McCullin to ask him to spend a day photographing The Beatles. The group was in need of new publicity images, and wanted to get away from the recording studio temporarily. The chosen day was 28 July 1968. The Beatles and McCullin were […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación dos
The second location in The Beatles’ Mad Day Out photography extravaganza took place at the Mercury Theatre at 2 Ladbroke Road in Notting Hill, London. The building was originally a church hall dating from 1848, and is now a private home. The Beatles’ car was parked near the Horbury Chapel, now Kensington Temple, and they […]
The Mad Day Out: ubicación seis
After leaving St Pancras Old Church and Gardens, The Beatles travelled to east London to Wapping Pier Head and Wapping High Street, for the sixth location of the Mad Day Out photoshoot. They arrived in the evening, and parked their cars in Wapping High Street. The first photographs were taken near the corner of Sampson […]