People_USA_The_Beatles_1969_(2019)

THE BEATLES 1969 PEOPLE 39 WRECKED Posing with the car they crashed in July 1969 while driving to Scotland with their children, ...

“you could go a bit faster, Ringo!” “Okay, George!” That Beatles banter was caught on tape during an April 14, 1969, recording s ...

on several greatest all-time rock albums lists, with praise for Lennon’s unvarnished vocals and inti- mately personal lyrics, as ...

JOHN 42 FIRSTBORN John’s son Julian, 6, and Yoko’s daughter Kyoko, 5, enjoyed an outing in Scotland in June 1969. With no contac ...

thia. Ono, who had been married twice before, was mother to a daughter, Kyoko, who joined the couple in Montreal for the 10-day ...

in march 1969, as john and Yoko were stag- ing honeymoon bed-ins, Paul and Linda were celebrating their own newly minted union i ...

45 MR. AFFABLE Paul McCartney described Ringo as the “mild- mannered, the nice guy” Beatle. ...

RINGO 46 ‘HE IS EVERY BLOODY BIT A S WARM, UNASSUMING, FUNNY AND KIND AS HE SEEMS. HE WAS QUITE SIMPLY THE HEART OF THE BEATLES’ ...

the inspiration to write what would become the sec- ond, and last, Ringo-penned Beatles song, “Octopus’s Garden,” he was his usu ...

like to live normal lives. Everybody wanted a piece of us really, so getting out was a big day.” In the end, Starr deferred, McC ...

their 1976 Wings Over America tour and later that same year when Lennon and Harrison were in town, Ringo guessed that “only 2 pe ...

G george harrison arrived at London’s Twickenham Film Studios, where the Beatles were gathering on Jan. 2, 1969, to begin fi lmi ...

THE BEATLES 1969 PEOPLE 51 FLOWER POWER His reputation for being a recluse was overblown, Harrison told People in 1987. “I am le ...

All the Beatles seemed ready for a return to their roots and tentatively titled the album Get Back. It was largely the brainchil ...

GEORGE THE BEATLES 1969 PEOPLE 53 GUITAR HEROES Above: Harrison and Eric Clapton (right) jammed with Delaney & Bonnie and Fr ...

also appeared on the album. The Dylan influence is even evident on the Abbey Road album cover, which pictures George dressed hea ...

cally, “it was like being constipated for years, then finally you were allowed to go,” But even as he enjoyed some professional ...

W we were more together than we had been for a long time,” John Lennon said of the Abbey Road sessions on the eve of the album’s ...

ing years have only burnished the album’s place in pop history. Says Beatles biographer Mark Hertsgaard: It showcases “the music ...

side one TRACK ONE WRITTEN BY: Lennon LEAD VOCAL: Lennon When psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary (above) asked pal Joh ...