1967
Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush Premiere
January 4, 1968 - Jane Asher and Paul McCartney arriving at the Pavilion Theatre for the premiere of, Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush.
George at Kinfauns
1968 - George posing in the doorway of his colourful home for a fan. Scan of unidentified fan’s snapshop from the Meet the Beatles For Real tumblr blog (retouched by me).
Starkey Family Portraits
Circa March 1968 - Ringo, Maureen, Jason and Zak posing at their Weybridge, Surrey home, Sunny Heights, shortly after the Starrs returned from India. It may be one of Ringo’s self-portraits shot with a delayed action shutter. These rare personal portraits were sold on ebay several years ago. Printed on double weight photographic paper - they appear to have been made in a home darkroom rather than processed at a professional lab.
Scan from the Maureen Starr Tribute at Yahoo!
THIS MAKES ME SICK!
Ebay seller griega has copied dozens of my jpg scans posted online, made small 4”X6” prints of them and listed them on ebay at typically a starting bid of $14.00. This scan of George and Pattie arriving at the Apple Tailoring shop launch party on May 22, 1968 I made from a book photo years ago is currently bid up to $43.00! The whole book can be had for much cheaper and the photo is full page size, not 4”X6”. I feel sorry for these unsuspecting buyers being ripped-off like this. They could copy any online scan and make their own print for about a dollar or less. Unfortunately ebay now makes it impossible to contact other bidders or I would warn them. And copyrights don’t really apply to such old material. Hopefully a few of griega’s customers will see this before they waste their money.
Source of scan: rip-off ebay seller griega
New York City
Late November 1968 - A rare photo of George and Pattie on a New York street near Thanksgiving shortly before they returned home to England after their extended U.S. visit. George in black leather and Pattie keeping warm in a black fur hat with a shaggy fur coat on the cold windy fall evening. Official Beatles Fan Club member Kathy Dakis took the photo and sent it to London - where George and Pattie flipped over it. The fan club offered 8X10” copies of the photo to members for 50 cents each.
Source of scan is the Something About Pattie Boyd group at Yahoo!
By Pattie Boyd.
April 1968 - After leaving Maharishi’s ashram in Rishikesh George and Pattie traveled to southern India to visit with Ravi Shankar before returning to England. Pattie took an intimate photo of her husband: “He was lying in the hotel room bed - and I loved the light. He’s so good looking,” Pattie commented about her photograph.
Sing-along in India
March 1968 - Cynthia, George, Paul, Pattie, Jane and John following Maharishi, with blankets and guitars in hand, to the banks of the Ganges River for a group sing-along at the Rishikesh ashram.
Press photo currently listed on ebay. It can be yours for $399.95 - OUCH!
Auction #321115117767
“My total experiences with Mrs. Lennon over these couple of years or so consist in having danced and dined with her, gone swimming with her, and having found her to be a person of class, very nice, very sweet, very sympathetic. And, recently, very unhappy.” - Roberto Bassanini, 1968
Source: Cynthia Powell Lennon Yahoo Group
Article published circa June 30, 1968. Photo of John & Cynthia taken October 17, 1967 at the New London Synagogue arriving for Brian Epstein’s memorial service.
Leaving on a Jet Plane…
October 16, 1968 - Pattie (with George, out of frame) at Heathrow airport to catch a flight to Los Angeles, via New York, for George to produce Apple recording star Jackie Lomax.
Source of scan is the Something About Pattie Boyd group at Yahoo! Photo from REX Features. Someone very rudely chopped off my tag from the bottom of my scan!
Around The World in 80 Days
March 23, 1968 - Ringo and Maureen enjoying the post screening after-party at the Dorchester Hotel in London celebrating the re-issue of the 1956 classic film, Around The World in 80 Days, with their hostess Elizabeth Taylor, Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and actress Mia Farrow. Meanwhile John, Cynthia, George & Pattie were still in India meditating in Rishikesh and Paul & Jane were on their way back to London via a stopover in Teheran, Iran for a couple of days of shopping. Photo from an ebay auction listing.
george & pattie
July 17, 1968 - George and Pattie arriving for the London premiere of Yellow Submarine.
“We all wore pajama trousers and big baggy shirts, and the boys grew beards. It was baking hot during the day, so you had to wear loose, flowing Indian clothes. One evening Maharishi organized boats to take everyone on a trip down the river while two holy men chanted. It was so beautiful, with mountains on three sides of us. In the setting sun the one to the west turned a deep, deep pink.”
-Pattie Boyd, describing her trip to Rishikesh
1968, Pattie vacationing
in Spainwith Twiggy and her boyfriend, photographer Justin de Villeneuve. From Hola! magazine.
September 4, 1968 (according to press photo) - Hydra Island, Greece.
