Harry Benson. The Beatles

In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the picture editor of London's Daily Express,
who asked Benson to document a trip to Paris by the Beatles. This
This assignment was the beginning of the close relationship with the band that
career and which resulted in some of the most intimate pictures
ever taken of the Beatles.

In Paris, Benson took the famous photo of the Fab Four having a pillow fight at the George V Hotel,
a picture that Benson himself once described as the best of his career.
of his career. Later that year, he accompanied the band's first US tour
US tour, including their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, their surprise encounter with Cassius Clay and the hysteria of New York Beatlemania. He also captured George Harrison's honeymoon in Barbados for posterity. He documented the Beatles during the filming of their debut film A Hard Day's Night
and was present at the now infamous 1966 tour on which John
where John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus".

This book brings together the best of Benson's atmospherically dense
black and white pictures. There are also quotes and
and newspaper clippings from the time and an introduction by
Benson himself, in which he explains his personal view of the photographs
that made contemporary history.