by Alisha Jackson
Ringo just hit the motherload of Beatles memorabilia.
The former Beatle was recently forced to move some of his things in storage when he came across thousands of undeveloped negatives. The majority of the negatives contained images of Starr’s former band mates, George, Paul and John, including their first visit to the United States in 1964.
Sure, early photos of The Beatles aren’t hard to find, but the ones available to the public were mostly taken by the media. Ringo’s photos obviously come from a different perspective. Never to be duplicated, the drummer’s photos were taken while the band was living in their natural habitat, and Ringo’s convinced that his former band mates have or had similar personal collections of their own.
“If they’re listening … dig out the negatives,” Ringo said of Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Ringo was speaking at the gallery in support of his new book coming out, called Photograph, which will feature the new-found photos.
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