Photographer Tom Murray shares the unlikely backstory of 23 epic images.
Twenty-three of Tom Murray's negatives from the Beatles' 1968 Mad Day Out photo shoot will be auctioned on Nov. 14.“Don McCullin, the famous war photographer, said he was going to photograph some pop group and would drive him around,” says Murray with a chuckle. “As we were leaving he said, ‘Bring your camera, you might get some nice snaps.’”Murray grabbed his Nikon F and two rolls of color film. As they neared the rehearsal room, he could hear music.
Dissatisfied with their publicity photos, the Beatles had commissioned McCullin for new pictures, and the photo session that followed is one of the most famous in Beatles lore.
"I wish I could have asked him, why did you do that?" says photographer Tom Murray of the moment John Lennon played dead during a 1968 photo shoot.magazine, but Tom Murray did indeed take “some nice snaps,” which made a splash when they hit the exhibition circuit in 1998, after nearly 30 years of languishing in a drawer.will auction 23 negatives , a collection called “The Mad Day: Summer of ‘68.
Tom Murray went on to have a storied career shooting, among other celebrities, the Royal family, but the Beatles pictures are close to his heart. “It’s a bit like parting with 23 children,” he says. “I promise not to cry.”At a Dallas Election Watch party, the 39-year-old Libertarian presidential candidate joined an eclectic group of supporters eager to shake up the two-party system.Despite a last-minute move to Fair Park, the Zoo to Do event was a playful celebration of a Dallas gem.
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