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I am the Paulrus
Oct 25, 2007, 01:10 PM
My mad day with Fab Four

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/the-beatles/the-beatles-news/2007/10/24/my-mad-day-with-fab-four-100252-19998672/

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/liverpoolecho/oct2007/1/8/D1E43A1E-F72F-DCBC-5B925C611042C416.jpg
One of Tom Murray's 'mad day out' Beatles' photos.

See them here:
http://www.nemsworld.com/beatles/md/md.htm

A PHOTOGRAPHER who captured the Beatles’ “mad day out” on camera brings the images to Liverpool tomorrow.

Tom Murray spent a day messing around in London with the Fab Four in July 1968.

The band, who were recording the White Album, decided to stage a photo-shoot with a difference.

Murray, a Sunday Times photographer, was roped in by veteran war photographer Don McCullin, but had no idea who he was due to picture until he arrived.

He said: “We arrived at this old church which was a rehearsal studio.

“I walked in and there was Paul McCartney playing at the piano. George and Ringo were at one side drinking tea and in the other corner were John and Yoko.

"It really was a mad day rushing around London. We’d get half-an-hour, maybe 45 minutes at the most in any one place before too many people arrived.”

The 65-year-old photographed the Beatles on a small Nikon camera he still has today, but says no one paid him any attention.

Now a number of the 23 vivid colour images, which were stored unseen for three decades until 1998, are being brought to Liverpool.

While the originals are locked in a New York bank vault, people visiting Rennies art gallery in Bold Street tomorrow will have the chance to talk to Murray and buy limited edition giclée prints of eight of the originals.

MAXWELL EDISON
Oct 25, 2007, 03:23 PM
Nice pics. I loved them!!!!

HeyBeatle
Oct 25, 2007, 04:09 PM
Those are some of my favorite pictures.

instant karla
Oct 25, 2007, 05:34 PM
very cool, paulrus. thanks for posting!

there's another link to other beatles photo sessions at the end of the mad day out link. check it out:
http://www.nemsworld.com/beatles/

Kelli
Nov 08, 2007, 07:55 AM
Cool! Thanks for sharing.

Digger
Nov 14, 2007, 11:15 PM
www.tommurrayphotos.com

http://www.retrosellers.com/features35.htm

FPSHOT
Nov 14, 2007, 11:32 PM
http://www.retrosellers.com/features35.htm

Very nice and fascinating interview Digger :thumbu1:

Digger: Are there any other photos locked away that
we should know about?

Tom: Sadly, I destroyed the other slides from that day
...but I kept the best.

:scream3:

Digger
Nov 14, 2007, 11:57 PM
I've got a couple of these signed prints - I'd recommend them as an investment as well as something good to look at.
Tom has given a lot away to charities and made hundreds of thousands for charities - unfortunately not so for himself.

BadLittleKid
Nov 15, 2007, 01:40 AM
Nice collection, most of them were already familiar but it's cool to know the origin.

LadyGrinningSoul
Feb 08, 2008, 10:12 AM
Thanks! I really like the pics of them in the flowers and the one in black and white with John's head on the ground. :smoking2:

Get Back
Feb 08, 2008, 03:11 PM
Cool pics !