Unseen Beatles home movies discovered in the UK
Previously unseen footage of the Beatles filmed by their road manager has just surfaced. Britain's NME.com reported that home movies shot by the "Fab's" longtime road manager Mal Evans includes rare concert footage and "revealing private conversations and personal exchanges within the band."
The footage also includes a conversation about celebrity with the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts, live concert footage of Jimi Hendrix, and a super-rare 1966 clip featuring members of the Beatles and the Beach Boys riding down London's Park Lane in a car. The footage marks the only time the two supergroups were filmed together.
Some of the clips, including the Beatles performing live in Paris in 1963 and the Beach Boys in London in 1966, can be accessed and purchased through the website mbopmegastore.com.
Mal Evans began working for the Beatles as a driver in 1962. Along with the group's right hand man Neil Aspinall, Evans served as the band's roadie on all of their tours and recording sessions.
Apart from working with the Beatles who kept him on the company payroll until his death, Evans' main claim to fame was producing Badfinger's 1970 hit "No Matter What." Evans was shot to death in 1976 by the L.A.P.D.
In other Beatles-related news:
The wire rims from a pair of John Lennon's sunglasses sold at auction on Wednesday (August 1st) for an undisclosed amount, according to Bloomberg.com. The glasses, which were given by Lennon to the group's interpreter during the Beatles' 1966 tour of Japan, were originally expected to reach as high as $1.5 million.
The marketing director for 991.com, which sponsored the auction, said that the glasses were bought by a UK Beatles fan who will lend them to a Liverpool museum starting in 2008.
The footage also includes a conversation about celebrity with the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts, live concert footage of Jimi Hendrix, and a super-rare 1966 clip featuring members of the Beatles and the Beach Boys riding down London's Park Lane in a car. The footage marks the only time the two supergroups were filmed together.
Some of the clips, including the Beatles performing live in Paris in 1963 and the Beach Boys in London in 1966, can be accessed and purchased through the website mbopmegastore.com.
Mal Evans began working for the Beatles as a driver in 1962. Along with the group's right hand man Neil Aspinall, Evans served as the band's roadie on all of their tours and recording sessions.
Apart from working with the Beatles who kept him on the company payroll until his death, Evans' main claim to fame was producing Badfinger's 1970 hit "No Matter What." Evans was shot to death in 1976 by the L.A.P.D.
In other Beatles-related news:
The wire rims from a pair of John Lennon's sunglasses sold at auction on Wednesday (August 1st) for an undisclosed amount, according to Bloomberg.com. The glasses, which were given by Lennon to the group's interpreter during the Beatles' 1966 tour of Japan, were originally expected to reach as high as $1.5 million.
The marketing director for 991.com, which sponsored the auction, said that the glasses were bought by a UK Beatles fan who will lend them to a Liverpool museum starting in 2008.
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