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5.47am
1 May 2010
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note: meanmistermustard merged two threads together on the 8th November 2014. Thread one consisted of posts 1 -> 5, thread two posts 6 -> 17.
Since I was a kid, (because those were the Beatle albums I was allowed to listen at home by myself) I always wanted to know… who are the people there? (I can recognize Paul, Ringo John and George, who BTW doesn’t look like George.. at all!!)
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
9.53am
31 March 2008
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The shot was taken on the ‘Mad Day’ in July 1968 (look for the St Pancras link here: http://beatlesmadday.110mb.com…..glish.html), when masses of photos were taken around London.
IIRC the people were members of the public who had waited behind railings while the shots were taken, and by way of thanks the group agreed to appear in a pic with them. I’ll try and dig out more info for you.
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11.56am
13 November 2009
Offline So that’s where that picture is from. I’ve seen it before and have wondered why it’s so badly cropped in the middle. Since it’s a fold out, it makes sense now. I’ll let you know if I find anything on it.
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7.24pm
31 March 2008
Offline From The Beatles’ London book:
“The eighth location [during the St Pancras Old Church and Gardens shoot] was in the Norman-style arched church doorway, where the Beatles posed for formal portrait shots. While they were being photographed in the doorway, a small crowd gathered behind the railings dividing the church and the gardens. Seizing the photo opportunity, [photographer] Don McCullin swiftly made the Beatles mingle among the crowd for the ninth and last location, from which a shot was later used to adorn the gatefold sleeves of the so-called Red and Blue compilation albums first issued in 1973, The Beatles 1962-1966 and 1967-1970.”
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9.03pm
1 May 2010
Offline Thanks for the info Joe!!! It really surprises me this pic is not that easy to find on the Net.(or maybe I haven’t searched it hard enough)
I remember my sisters and I once speculated about the photo. We thought it was a photo montage (is that the word?) of the Beatles with photos when they were young. A very well done montage of course…
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
7.18am
1 November 2012
Offline When you open up the LP, there’s a photo that covers the whole inside, of a group of apparently ordinary people standing behind an iron grate fence, facing the camera, the four Beatles among them.
For years, I’ve always wondered about one guy in the photo. He’s way over on the right (our right), very clean-cut, almost Kennedy-esque good looks. He seems to be giving the squirrel-eye, a kind of hostile stare, at someone way over on the left (our left), just to Paul’s right. It seems the object of his stare is some other young guy who is just minding his business, looking straight ahead at the camera, his arms crossed.
Okay, just wanted to get that off my chest after all these years, and I guess this is just the venue for it. It would be neat if anyone else ever noticed this and wondered about it.
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7.19am
1 November 2012
Offline P.S.: I couldn’t figure out how to make the picture as large as it appears at Google Images —
Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...
1.38pm
31 March 2008
Offline Pics get automatically resized. They’ll show full versions (or as big as the site width will allow) when you click on them.
I never really thought about that guy before, or noticed that he looked like a Kennedy.
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6.19pm
3 May 2012
Offline Where was this photo taken? I’ve always wondered that and there’s no info on the web. Anyone know??
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6.47am
1 December 2009
Offline Dunno where, but I’ve got a vague recollection of reading that it was taken during the Mad Day Out. Not sure about that tho; surely Joe or someone else would be able to confirm/deny.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
8.22am
5 November 2011
Offline That picture was taken during the Mad Day Out, and they are at St Pancras Old Church, according to this site.
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12.12pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Im pretty sure the location of that picture is written on the red and blue lps. Loved looking at the pic when i was younger and how the red and blue covers were so similar.
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1.03pm
31 March 2008
Offline This is where the picture was taken: https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..tion-five/
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1.54am
1 May 2010
Offline I used to stare at that píc for hours when I was a child. (One of my sisters had Red and Blue Albums). I also used to think in theories of who the people were. I was convinced it was a photo montage and the boy at the front was John Lennon as a kid.
Of course I was wrong. But this shows how much that pic fascinated me.
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
5.49pm
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14 April 2010
Offline To me, it appears there are several people looking in the same direction as “Mr. Arms-Crossed” including George, Paul and Ringo.
What I really want to know is why that one kid in front is the only one outside the fence. Did he manage to capture all of those people and they were his prisoners?
*did anyone else just hear Patti Boyd say “Prisoners?”*
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1.27am
25 November 2013
Offline unknown said
That picture was taken during the Mad Day Out, and they are at St Pancras Old Church, according to this site.
What site?
We were talking about the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion.
1.39am
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1 May 2011
Offline YouWontSeeMe said
unknown said
That picture was taken during the Mad Day Out, and they are at St Pancras Old Church, according to this site.What site?
I think unknown was referring to Beatles Bible. Yeah, you can read about it here.
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12.47pm
27 December 2018
Offline I have a copy of a shot taken just moments before or after the one chosen for the gatefold in which Yoko is standing right in front of John. Was she perhaps encouraged to stand aside or later edited out?
11.34pm
21 January 2023
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that seemly nearish 8-year-old kid blonde that’s IN the zoo before is is my doppelganger
It looks nearly exactly like me except for the eyes alone. Its not me..
this is what i looked like to perhaps George H. in 1964 at the age of 8
he has my art for sure and perhaps my philos. papers, maybe even a photo of my at this age
this is mostly speculation based on factual memory
if there is such a thing
anyways I love this, and I am looking for the POSTER size print of this if possible/
I would love that if you or anyone has one or can get me ONE even signed would be grand
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