Beatles 1968 Photoshoot: 'Mad Day Out'*

There's a preview of six out of the twenty three photos , apparently found in an envelope that had been laying in a vault .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nt-unseen-photo-left-bank-vault-30-years.html .

 

It wasn't the last photoshoot.

 

very strange..thanks for the link

 

I've seen all these pictures before. They are not rare. Strange article.

 

I don't know for sure , I wasn't there but the article suggests it was the last official photoshoot

 

Ah! I see now , my mother language can be very strange sometimes

 

I think Tom Murray's sales just haven't been good. What makes him think that "original" prints from the negative/slides are that much more valuable than the prints he already sells?

Here's his web site where he sells the photos - which was put up in 2001:

http://www.tommurrayphotos.com/beatles_photographer_tom_murray.html

 

A bit of research [that I ought to have done earlier] shows that they were avilable as far back as 2003 ! http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/...d=12824053&page=1&siteid=50061-name_page.html

 

Looks like a similar story to this one from 1999 (slightly different pics though)



BTW, this article CLEARLY states that it was The Beatles LAST Photo Session.

Stephen

 

I've got a rare video of their appearance on the 'Ed' or maybe it's 'Ned' Sullivan TV show?
They even play some songs in it.

It was found it at the bottom of a mine shaft. And one person reportedly died trying to retrieve it, so sad...

 

Again, Tom Murray's web site was set up in 2001. The photos were around before that.

Maybe the posted article was just a rehash they figured no one would catch?

 

I should email the features editor at the Mail really ... how odd

 

Yeah, I'd say so too.

An interesting tidbit in the article states that the all the colour photo's from the "Mad Day Out" were taken by Tom Murray (onto two rolls of film) - whilst Don McCullin only shot in B&W.

Regards,
Stephen

 

Indeed; Beatles Monthly carried them shortly after the photo shoot.

 

In 2005, I think it was, TV Guide here in the States published a bunch of "previously unseen!" photos from the Fabs' 1965 Shea Stadium show, by a photographer named George Orsino.

Mr. Orsino, of course, was just one of many photographers to document the event. In 2004, I was writing for the Scripps papers on the east coast of Florida. Mr. Orsino, who lived in Vero Beach, contacted me - I wrote a story and we published every single one of his pictures (which weren't all that spectacular, to be honest). He told me at the time that he thought he was "sitting on a goldmine" and should be able to get lots of moolah for his shots. The best I could do was publish them in our papers.

Of course, the next year he convinced TV Guide that they were indeed a "goldmine" and the magazine even ran one on the cover!

I think that's what we have going on with these Mad Day Out shots.

 

I wonder what they called the photo sessions they did after the last one...

 

The last photo shoot of The Beatles was the one which took place in August 1969 with Ethan Russell, correct?

 

Maybe they called it the One After 768 (July 1968).

 

Daily Mail: a rag that prints hysterical hateful stories. Not a newspaper.

 

As others have noted, these photos are not newly discovered.

And, to be honest, these are far far far from my favorite pics of the Fabs...Mostly dreadful, in fact...

 

Copied and pasted from the article:

"It was one of many images taken by society photographer Tom Murray during the Fab Four's last official photoshoot in 1968, which lay forgotten in an envelope for decades.

It was among a number of photographs which were made public today after lying forgotan about for years."

Good job on the proofreading.

Also, I hope I'm never found one day after having lying forgotan about for years.

 

Yep. Taken at John's Tittenhurst home, August 22nd,1969.

I never knew that color film of this was also shot until Paul toured in 1989 and he showed a few seconds of it in his preshow video thing. That's the first that I saw any of that, and I'm not sure anyone else saw it earlier than that either. The film eventually ended up in the Anthology.