1964: EYES OF THE STORM

In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the bands first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartneys personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the Eyes of the Storm.1964: Eyes of the Storm presents 275 of McCartneys photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo. In his Foreword and Introductions to these city portfolios, McCartney remembers what else can you call it - pandemonium and conveys his impressions of Britain and America in 1964 - the moment when the culture changed and the Sixties really began.