“We didn’t know where it was all going. We just didn’t know. One day in 1968 I got a phone call which I thought was just a joke. An unfamiliar male voice said he was phoning from Apple and wondered if I would consider spending a day photographing The Beatles for a fee of two hundred pounds. They were a little tired of approaches from photographers and wanted to get a fresh supply of pictures I suppose. Given the year with all its political associations, they thought they could work with somebody who might be politically sympathetic. They didn’t know that I had practically levitated a couple of inches off the ground. I would have given them two hundred pounds”
~ Don McCullin
“Don’s a very cool guy. He is one of the great British photographers. We thought we’ve got to be the war. We’ll provide the battlefield and it’ll work. He’ll just click into action.That’s exactly what happened.”
~ Paul McCartney
In the summer of 1968 the Beatles at the height of their international fame following the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the previous year, were in the middle of of recording the White Album in July that year they invited Don, one of the world’s most celebrated photographers to spend the day with them. He had just come back from Vietnam. For us Beatles fans who grew up with them, and fans of Don’s extraordinary work, these images have mythical status. They have rarely been available. We thank Don for agreeing to make a handful of prints for us. Let them fly out to the world and rejoice.
