Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen
photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through
early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and
changed the course of music history. Featuring 275 images from the six
cities--Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and
Miami--of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also
includes:
- A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of
British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on
its first American visit
- Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an
autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the "Eyes
of the Storm," plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964
- "Beatleland," an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist
Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global
mass culture phenomenon
Handsomely designed, 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely
dramatic record of The Beatles' first transatlantic trip, documenting
the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964.
"You could hold your camera up to the world, in 1964. But what madness
would you capture, what beauty, what joy, what fury?" --Jill Lepore
