Holiday in Tenerife 1963

While John was off galavanting with Brian Epstein in Spain, Paul, George, and Ringo decided to take a well deserved vacation with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman in Tenerife. Here are some of the pictures they took during that trip.

( photos 3-7 via rarerecording tumblr )

Rare Photographs: The Lennon's and Starkey's Holiday, 1966

Here are some beautiful, colorful photos of John & Cynthia & Ringo & Maureen's 1966 trip to Trinidad and Tobago. The 2 people pictured with them are the PM Dr. Eric Williams and his daughter, Erica.

Happy Crimble!

The first Christmas Message The Beatles did back in 1963. I just lovelovelove their sense of humor.

All ready for the snow. I think this was taken on the set of The Beatles special chirstmas show/skits thingy they did every year or something like that (does this sentence even make sense?). Anyroad, I'm going to the snow tomorrow, so yeah, that's why I posted it.

Los Beatles in Spain

Part of The Beatles world tour in 1965 included a few concerts in Spain. Here's a report/newsreel footage of their stay. Yes it is in Spanish, but it's still worth a watch for the footage alone. I love John's Spaniard in the Works hat, Paul's winks at the camera, George gulping down his wine, and poor Ringo getting spalshed by wine.

And because it's sort of my "thing," here are some pictures that go along with the video.

Some more pictures with a Spanish vibe to them.

Interview: The Beatles 1965

When I'm down and feeling blue, one of the things I like to do to cheer myself up (or down) is watch Beatle interviews. So here are some excellent videos I found of random interviews with the Beatles in 1965 (one good-looking year for the boys, don't you agree?). Also included is the other, longer version of Ringo and Maureen's honeymoon interview that had been deleted, but it's here again! It's great to hear Mo talk, she has such a sweet voice.

Rare Photographs: Ringo and Maureen Starkey

Not exactly rare, but I've never seen these particular pictures in such amazingly good quality. Great color as well, too bad about the watermarks all over their faces. 

Interview: The Beatles, Dallas 1964

An interview with The Beatles that I stumbled upon in the sometimes magical land of youtube. Once again, I've only seen pictures from that day. It looks like the interview was done backstage in the dressing room (where I dream to be). The interviewer asks the typical silly questions, ( I wonder if I could come up with better questions? Probably not, I'd be too busy freaking out, while trying to be cool at the same time, that I'm backstage with The Beatles!!) and as usual, the boys are their charming, witty, funny, oh-so-cute, selves.

Arriving in Dallas, TX, obviously, judging from the white cowboy hats.










Backstage antics, put on especially by The Beatles for a laugh.

I guess earlier that day, The Beatles decided that they wanted to have the real Texas Cowboy Experience (sounds like a band name doesn't it? Or something else...) and went horseback riding, cowboy hats and all.

*EDIT* So apparently these photos were not taken in Texas as I had assumed (i'm surprised nobody corrected me on this) but in some rich guy's ranch in Missouri. Oh well, the photos still have that western feel to them, so... since I love putting photos that match like this together, I'll leave them in the post.

 Ooooh! A picture in color!  Now we can see the color (duh) of John's outfit.

I guess they decided to change their outfits, becauses it looks like these pictures were taken on the same day, don't they?