So, here we are … back With the Beatles (get it?). And back with Robert Freeman as well.
Considering this came out in 1963, this is pretty darn cool. The black & white, the lighting, Ringo down in the corner.
This was actually Freeman’s first album with the band. Brian Epstein had been impressed with Freeman’s jazz photography, and invited him on board.
Trane … on flute?!?!
The boys asked him to take some ideas from Astrid Kircherr (fiancé of early Beatle Stu Sutcliffe and a pretty decent photographer) from their Hamburg days.
So glad they didn’t go with 4
Man, the Beatles sure did have some lame-o titles in the early days – Introducing the Beatles, Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Beatles 65, Beatles for Sale, Beatles VI … Not that there weren’t plenty of hits on all of them. With the Beatles included “All My Loving,” “Roll Over Beethoven” (yup, there were plenty of covers back then), “Money,” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.” It was just their second album.
I guess you could call these homages:
And, yes, that 3rd one is advertising a burlesque show.
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