History in Pictures: The Beatles 1957

[Kingofalldems]

George Harrison is 14, Paul McCartney is 15 and John Lennon is 16.

[cyberswede]

1. Great pic!

[gratuitous]

2. Just think . . .

When the Beatles broke up, all four of them were still under 30. And what have you done with YOUR life? Okay, I outlived Jerry Garcia, so I got that going for me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. My son was born in 1968.....

When he was 10 or so, he asked me, in all seriousness... "Mom, were you alive when the Beatles came to America??"

A world without the Beatles was apparently unimaginable to him.

[Enrique]

8. "and what have you done"

Lennon was 30 when he wrote "So this is Christmas", containing that line.

[Boomerproud]

4. This photo was taken by Mike McCartney at the wedding their cousin Ian Harris.

The guy with the beer is named Dennis. Ian Harris was the son of Paul's Auntie Gin.

[gratuitous]

6. Yikes, major flashback

Mike McCartney had a brief recording career as Mike McGear. One of his songs, "Norton," was on a Warner Bros. promotional album called "The Force," which featured a number of artists under contract to Warner Bros. Double album you could mail order for two bucks.

Damn, I'm old.

[LiberalElite]

13. I've seen part of this pic before - but not with that

other guy "Dennis" in it. I was wondering who he was. Thanks!

[trof]

5. Does John have the "Waterfall" coif?

I had that one summer in the 50s.
Back when I had hair.

[Enrique]

9. why is Ray Liotta wearing earrings?

not that there's anything wrong with that...

[trof]

10. That's a young Tony Curtis. Those are his ear lobes.

[malthaussen]

12. They all wore pompadours until Hamburg.

Stu Sutcliffe, who was the Beatles's style leader at the time, adopted the bangs when they were in Germany at the instigation of his g/f Astrid Kirchherr. Then when John and Paul went to Paris in '61, Astrid's friend Jurgen Vollmer, who was hosting them, gave them the same style cut. George adopted it when they returned to Liverpool; Pete Best refused to go along with the group (typical of him).

-- Mal

[Skittles]

7. I read that John didn't wear his glasses on stage until he saw a picture of Buddy Holly

yes indeed

[malthaussen]

11. All very well-bevvied. n/t

[LiberalElite]

14. I always thought that Paul had

the world's most perfect eyebrows...

but George was my fave.

[edbermac]

15. Just imagine the hair grease they used back then.

Ugh.