![]() ![]() There are of course many photographs of Paul, but also some wonderfully unique images of the other Beatles as young men: On the opposite page is this image – a striking one – again of Paul with his guitar: That photo appears on page 26 of Remember: Recollections and Photographs of the Beatles. Michael’s work was used for the front cover of Paul’s 2005 solo release Chaos and Creation in the Backyard: It is the same group, but this time with Paul and Michael’s dad Jim McCartney included: The photo was taken on the same day as this one below. “By this time Paul was so obsessed with the guitar that he took it everywhere – the bogs, the bus, and even the beach….”. ![]() Michael McCartney writes that the photograph (above) is of their cousin Bett Robbins (right), her son Ted (left)- with Paul sitting in the middle sitting in Ted’s pushchair. Paul McCartney also used a Michael McCartney image for the CD single “No Other Baby”, a song taken from his 1999 album Run Devil Run: Many of those images in the promo film clip appear in this book. McCartney’s photographs have been frequently used by his older brother, notably scattered throughout this film clip for the Wings song “Let ‘Em In” from 1976 (which also name-checks “brother Michael”): His book is filled with amazing photographs from the very earliest days of his and Paul’s lives – from intimate family photos, right through to the onset of Beatlemania and the contrast of crowds everywhere. Michael McCartney is the younger brother of Paul, and with camera in hand he had a backstage pass to record the evolution of the Beatles. The book is called Remember: Recollections and Photographs of the Beatles, and it was released in 1992 by Friedman Books: Got the chance to go to a CD and book fair recently and picked up what is really a very nice second-hand book of photographs and memories by Michael McCartney (or Mike McGear as he is sometimes known).īeatles books are dime a dozen – but this one is special because it’s an historic and unique window into the behind-the-scenes life not only of Paul McCartney and the Beatles, but the whole Liverpool scene which spawned the band. ![]()
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