#Brian Epstein

[javelinbk]

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Brian Epstein and Tony Barrow during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 5 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)

[rhapsodynew]

Rare photos

May 23, 1957. The Liverpool band Eric Clayton's Skiffle Band performs. This is the first shot of Ringo playing the drums (far left).

The photo on July 6, 1957 (the day John met Paul), where Lennon sings standing on an open truck, has become a textbook and is found in many books and websites. And this picture, taken a little later in the day, is not well known to many people.

The bassist and an important member of the early line-up of the band was Stuart Sutcliffe, who unfortunately passed away early. In all his short life, only one color shot of him was taken, this one, where he is captured with singer Tony Sheridan. Stewart is on the right.

Most likely, you don't know who it is. Meanwhile, this man turned the history of world music around. This is Kurt Raymond Jones, the same customer who came into the store and asked for the Beatles record My Bonnie, which is why Brian Epstein first heard about the band, began looking for them and eventually turned into a manager. For a long time it was believed that there was no Raymond Jones. Like, it's just a character invented for the convenience of telling a story. However, here he is!

The only shot where you can see drummer Pete Best, who will later be fired, and Ringo Starr, who will take his place, together.

The Beatles are on the verge of fame performing in Liverpool. As you can see, they have someone else's drum kit, left on stage after the previous band.

Have you ever seen John's mother-in-law? Here she is, the mother of his first wife, Cynthia, next to him.

The only picture where Brian Epstein holds a musical instrument in his hands and seems to extract sounds from it.

This is a giant shoe from the movie "Help!", which was needed to shoot a scene where the Floor shrank in size. As the photo shows, this piece of props later became a decoration in the garden near Lennon's house.

The Beatles in a hippie look ride in an ordinary subway car, and no one recognizes them? How can this be? This is 1967, the picture was taken in Greece, where a harsh political regime reigned at that time and the group was not so well known.

[muzaktomyears]

interesting that Tony Barrow sees the seeds of the breakup being sown as early as '66 - and that comment about Brian. earlier in the book he says:

[theoriginallittledarling]

Reminder that Ringo has seen Beatles fetish art (and he doesn’t recommend it)

[paulic]

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

Sometimes I realise that Brian Epstein was born in a Jewish family during WWII. Sometimes I realise Brian Epstein has been to 7 different school because he "wasn't good" at any subjects. Sometimes I realise how he loved musical theatre and fashion. Sometimes I realise how he wanted to be a dress designer, but his father denied him, because it wasn't a masculine work. Sometimes I realise how he was forced to take military service, only for then work in his family owned workplace even if it wasn't what he wanted to be. Sometimes I realise he probably had manic depression or bipolar disorders, that he never got diagnosed.

[bonithica]

“Paul can be temperamental and moody and difficult to deal with but I know him very well and he me. This means that we compromise on our clash of personalities. He is a great one for not wishing to hear about things, and if he doesn't want to know he switches himself off, settles down in a chair, puts one booted foot across his knee and pretends to read a newspaper, having consciously made his face an impassive mask.

But he has enormous talent and inside he has a great tenderness and great feeling which are sometimes concealed by an angry exterior. I believe that he is the most obviously charming Beatle with strangers, autograph hunters, fans and other artistes. He has a magnificent smile and an eagerness both of which he uses, not for effect, but because he knows they are assets which will bring happiness to those around him.

Paul is very much a world star, very musical, with a voice more melodic than John's and therefore more commercially acceptable. Also, and this is vital to me, he has great loyalty to the other Beatles and to the organisation around him. Therefore, I ignore his moods and hold him in high esteem.

I would not care to lose him as a friend.”

- Brian Epstein on Paul McCartney, A Cellarful Of Noise

[thebeatlelove]

[deitripper]

God i'm in love with those stripes🍏🌈😭 I should draw more John of that era🌚💕 I hope u like it!

[erinarigby]

oh my good looking boy

[mrepstein]

Happy Birthday, Brian Epstein (b. 19 September, 1934)  Remembering Brian who would have been 89 years old today

[javelinbk]

Brian Epstein watches The Beatles performing at the Washington Coliseum, 11th February 1964

[bonithica-art]

i drew brian in the beatles cartoon style :) bc he has exactly one appearance in the cartoon and that is NOT my brian!!! so i did a redesign for him. ngl the creators of the cartoon fumbled the bag so bad, brian in the cartoon opens up so many possibilities. he’s literally comedy gold. anyway i love him and in another life he’s a main character in the cartoon

[beatleshalloween]

The Beatles! George is a little hard to see bc of John's hand. But a good view of Brian Epstein!

[theoriginallittledarling]

Does anyone else know about the apparent quote by Freda Kelly, Brian Epstein’s and The Beatles’ secretary for the majority of the band’s relevance, where she says that she once walked in on Brian and a Beatle shaggin in his office and “it wasn’t John”? I read it somewhere a long long long time ago

[paulic]

Paul’s message to his most loyal Spotify listeners, 2023

“I luv ya. And…you love me! So, thanks a lot”