Unpublished colour photographs of The Beatles during
their first tour of the US are to be auctioned.
The 65 slides
include many stage shots, including George Harrison with his red Rickenbacker
guitar, which appeared in the film A Hard Day's Night.
They were taken
by award-winning physicist Dr Robert "Bob" Beck.
The band played
a string of sell-out concerts in the US in August 1964 following an appearance
on the Ed Sullivan show in February that year.
Dr Beck was a
researcher and inventor who died in 2002, leaving a huge archive of photographs
and slides in his Hollywood home.
'Historic tour'
After the huge
success of the band in the US, colour photography and film of them was more
widely used for their 1965 and 1966 appearances there.
The famous 1965
Shea Stadium show was filmed in colour by the BBC.
Ernie Sutton
from the British Beatles Fan Club said: "These photographs show The
Beatles during their 1964 US tour, both on and off-stage.
"New
photographs that emerge of The Beatles are always of interest to the fans, but
with the majority of photographs from this tour in black and white, it is a
delight to see colour photographs from that historic tour."
Dr Beck's
slides also feature close-up portraits from the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel press
conference, the Las Vegas Convention Centre gig, plus shots of a private party
at the Beverly Hills mansion of the then president of Capitol Records, Alan
Livingston.
They will go
under the hammer on 22 March, 50 years to the day in 1963 when the band
released their first album, Please Please Me.
Auctioneer Paul
Fairweather, of Omega Auctions in Stockport, Cheshire, said: "This is a
fabulous collection, particularly given that all the slides are in
colour."
The
transparencies are to be sold along with the copyright and he estimated that
they would fetch between £10,000 and £15,000.
Source: BBC
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