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The Lost Beatles Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive, 1964-1966 Hardcover – Illustrated, November 6, 2018
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- Print length169 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDey Street Books
- Publication dateNovember 6, 2018
- Dimensions10.35 x 9.31 x 0.79 inches
- ISBN-100061960780
- ISBN-13978-0061960789
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“Striking in their intimacy.” — Rolling Stone
From the Back Cover
An intimate, revealing look at the legendary band, documented in a series of personal, never-before-seen photographs taken during The Beatles' three U.S. tours--the largest single trove of such important unknown rock photographs ever uncovered
In the early 1960s, four working-class lads from Liverpool invaded America, igniting a cultural revolution that would transform a generation and change the world. During that time, few were closer to The Beatles than Bob Bonis, the tour manager for all three U.S. tours, 1964, 1965, and 1966. While on the road with the Fab Four, Bonis, a passionate amateur photographer with a keen eye, an innate sense of composition, and a deep love for his subjects, snapped some nine hundred photographs of the band--a remarkable collection that until now has only been known to family and close friends.
Unearthed after forty-five years, the photos that comprise The Lost Beatles Photographs form a groundbreaking portrait of the most iconic band of the twentieth century at a pivotal time in their career, conquering America. Bonis's photos offer fans unprecedented, behind-the-scenes access to The Beatles during their breakthrough moments on the world stage, from rehearsing backstage to stellar performances in concert. Here are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in casual moments, in rehearsal, in concert, in dressing rooms, on vacation, at press events, on the road. Funny, surprising, provocative, beautiful, these photos recall an unforgettable period in history and offer a fresh look at these legends at the beginning of their fame.
Whether you're a devoted aficionado or just discovering the Fab Four, The Lost Beatles Photographs is a remarkable addition to Beatle lore and a must-have for every fan.
About the Author
Larry Marion is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on rock and music memorabilia, especially concert posters. He has worked with many of the leading auction houses, set several world-record prices for Beatles memorabilia, and written and designed sixteen catalogs of music-related memorabilia. Larry is one of the owners, founders, and directors of NotFadeAwayGallery.com, which exclusively represents the photography of Bob Bonis. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, collects memorabilia related to stand-up comedy, and can be contacted at larry@nfagallery.com.
Product details
- Publisher : Dey Street Books
- Publication date : November 6, 2018
- Edition : Illustrated
- Language : English
- Print length : 169 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0061960780
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061960789
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 10.35 x 9.31 x 0.79 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,319,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #821 in Photo Essays (Books)
- #3,209 in Rock Music (Books)
- #6,837 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
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Customers appreciate the photo book's quality, with one noting it's chock full of unseen photographs, and find it worth the price for Beatles fans. The collection receives positive feedback, with one customer describing it as a collector's delight. Customers praise the musicianship, with one highlighting the amazing musicians in their youth, and the pacing, with one mentioning it's a treasure-trove of intimate moments. The content receives mixed reactions from customers.
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Customers appreciate the photos in this book, describing them as great and fun, with one customer noting it's chock full of unseen photographs.
"Bob Bonis's excellent photographs take you behind the scenes at the three U.S. tours The Beatles undertook in '64, '65, & '66...." Read more
"Rare photos very well documented book!" Read more
"I love this book. The photographs are great with some super rare ones included. A good addition to any Beatles book collectors." Read more
"I was really disappointed with the images in this book. Bob Bonis was a touring manager for the Beatles...." Read more
Customers find the book worth the price and consider it essential for Beatles fans, with one customer noting it makes a perfect gift.
"Great book with beautiful glossy pictures. Perfect gift for any Beatles fan." Read more
"...Worth the price!" Read more
"...It just doesn't add up to much, despite the low price. I was hoping for something better. Bonis' son found these pictures in the family attic...." Read more
"...to draw, and is a big fan of the beatles, so this made the absolute perfect gift for him...." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's collection, with one describing it as a collector's delight and another noting it includes various Beatles memorabilia.
"...show up in everybody's piles of old photos, but generally a very good collection...." Read more
"...I highly recommend this beautiful, hard cover, collector's delight...." Read more
"...This book includes a bunch of stuff he hadn't seen before, so he was impressed, which made me happy." Read more
"...-trove of intimate and funny photos, ticket stubs and other interesting memorabilia, and insightful and well-written commentary...." Read more
Customers appreciate the musicianship in the book, with one review highlighting the Beatles as amazing musicians in their youth.
"The photos were lively and in color. It showed these four amazing musicians in their youth and with the excitement of their new found celebrity...." Read more
"...did a fine job putting this book together, a real tribute to the talented photographer, Bob Bonis, and to The Beatles." Read more
"...George was a great musician, Paul is still fab after all these years. Lovely colour photos!" Read more
Customers appreciate the pacing of the book, with one describing it as a treasure-trove of intimate memories of The Fab Four.
"Larry Marion's new book of Bob Bonis' photographs is a treasure-trove of intimate and funny photos, ticket stubs and other interesting memorabilia,..." Read more
"I love this book, and it is great reminising about the boys when they were young and so was I. Great read." Read more
"...but this book is chock full of unseen photographs and wonderful memories of The Fab Four...." Read more
Customers have mixed reactions to the content of the book, with some finding it entertaining and enlightening, while others find it uninteresting.
"...ie stage and concerts but it's a snapshot of a precious now lost fabulous time, nothing has equalled their talents at song-writing or producing..." Read more
"...time slice of photos by one guy on one tour, and none if them are particularly interesting...." Read more
"...just pick up, look at some photos, read a page or two, be entertained and enlightened and then put it down till next time if you would like...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2012Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseAlthough I have not read the entire book yet, it is a joy just to look at the fabulous and fun photographs that were taken of the Beatles while they were in America in the early 1960's. I was only 12 when they burst on the music scene. My friends and I loved them, picked our favorites,listened to their records constantly, screamed while watching their movies, etc. but I was not old enough to follow where their tours were (except to know it was not any place near enough to actually go to a concert). This book has not only pictures of the Beatles themselves at play and in concert but pictures of ticket stubs and other memoralbilia of different concert dates...like a collector got together all of this neat Beatle collectables and put them in an album for you. There is very good informative writing to go along with the pictures. It is a book that you can just pick up, look at some photos, read a page or two, be entertained and enlightened and then put it down till next time if you would like. Of course, you could start on page 1 and read it all the way through, but you don't have to read it like a traditional book to be able to enjoy it.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2011Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseIf you are fan of The Beatles, then this book is a must have for you. What makes this book a must have is that these photos have never been seen or published before. Most Beatles books that have been published in the last 20 years contain the same photos we have been seeing over and over for the last 20 years. What also makes this book interesting is that the photographer Bob Bonis was a nonprofessional photographer, he was just their American tour manager, but I would say his photos are as good as Robert Freeman's or Robert Whitaker's who were professional photographers and both published their own Beatles Photo Books.I am very thankful to Bob Bonis' family for sharing these pictures with the world as Bob passed away in 1992 and never released them himself. This book is well worth a Beatles Fan's time, attention and money. A Splendid Time is Guaranteed when you look through it.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2025Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThis is an excellent photo history journal for any Beatles’ fan of their 1964, 65, & 66 American tours.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2018Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThis is probably my favorite Beatles book that I own. How many other books have live photographs of the Beatles taken on stage or in the front row? Bob Bonis had access to the band that almost no other photographer had at the time and the pictures are amazing! I would recommend this book to all Beatles fans but especially to the hardcore Beatles fan like myself. I loved this book and wish I could print some of these live pictures in a bigger format and frame them, they're that good.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2011Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThese photos were never lost, so why the title? Nearly every page claims these are the 'lost photos;' they were just in s box or closet all these years, sitting around, never lost. Makes it seem more mysterious than they really are. And some VERY UNCOMFORTABLE photos of the Beatles and Mel Evans playing around stupidly with a gun, that should NOT have been put in the book (let alone ever taken in the first place!) that get the book off to a very uncomfortable start...but then some mostly cool glimpses of the Beatles on their USA tours! Maybe only a good handful are really super, and a few too many look like typical 'trip photos' that show up in everybody's piles of old photos, but generally a very good collection. The intro mentions that Bob (the photographer) had one of George always hanging in his office, but doesn't mentions which one, where the photos of George show up from that date. And Bob says things about the Beatles that DO NOT agree with the same topics in other books; was he being honest or 'quiet' about the boys questionable tour behavior? So the book just adds to the never ending mystery and uncertainty of who the Beatles might have been, and what they ACTUALLY might have done.
Actually, what I find most interesting about the book is Mr Bob Boris! In all my Beatles readings (I am rather well read) I just do not remember him at all (I have always forgotten names easily; need to check back in my books!); he had quite a job to do, seemed to have done it very well, and very interesting that he had the great chance to take all these photos (was not professional photographer), and never published them or made himself into a 'Beatles expert' which he both could have easily done. Cool dude! But yes, I like the book, and some day might cut out those gun photos. This might not be a MUST HAVE book though it is very refreshing to have NEW photos after all these years of the same ones being re-cycled so many times.
And he took thousands of photos? How about a Web site of some or all of the rest?
- Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThis original Beatles fan - yep, one of the Ancient Ones - has been collecting rock photos & books for decades. So many photo collections contain rehashes of many of the same photos that it seems nothing new will ever be discovered. Not so!!! With this and its sister volume on The Beatles, the estate of late US tour manager Bob Bonis has indeed provided scores of genuinely never-before-seen images of the classic 60's bands, taken of the boys onstage, backstage & in private tour moments by Mr. Bonis, who had virtually unrestricted access. Bob kept almost all of these photos stashed at his home, seen by VERY few people, even his family. His son & the estate decided it was time to share it all with the world, resulting in a rare, totally fresh, often candid, remarkably immediate, occasionally cheeky assembly of images absolutely essential for any serious rock photo collector. Even if you're not into the Stones or Beatles, these books provide a scarce first-hand inside glimpse of what a mid-60's US rock tour was like. INDISPENSABLE!!!!!
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kregnierReviewed in France on December 23, 20145.0 out of 5 stars Livre: The lost Beatles photographs
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseLivre arrivé en parfait état. Très bel ouvrage que tout fan des Beatles devrait posséder dans sa bibliothèque. De nombreuses photos inédites.
ChankosReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 20115.0 out of 5 stars More Gems From The Bob Bonis Archive...
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseAnother wonderful collection of previously unpublished photographs by the late Bob Bonis finally receives its long-overdue release. This Beatles volume documents the same time period of '64-'66 as covered in his recently published Stones book.
Bonis was The Beatles' US Tour Manager, which afforded him exclusive backstage access and the opportunity to snap away pretty much as he wished with his Leica M3. Bonis kept these shots for his own pleasure and never published them during his lifetime, so many of these images will be new to even the most die-hard Beatles fans.
Copious amounts of fantastic live shots are featured here alongside wonderfully intimate backstage moments. My new favourite picture of John and Paul is on page 77, where they're intently tuning up backstage on the '66 tour. Atmospheric colour shots from Memphis, Tennessee on the same tour are also highlights. If any further evidence was needed, these confirm that The Beatles were indeed the coolest-looking guys on earth in 1966. We are also treated to rare glimpses of the late Mal Evans and Derek Taylor on the '64 tour, and fantastic colour studies of Ringo from the same period.
Looking at these pictures, it's hard not to feel sorry that Bonis' association with The Beatles ended once they'd stopped touring. Do yourself a favour and buy this lovely collection whilst it's in hardback. Amidst the constant deluge of "new" Beatles books, this is a genuinely worthy addition to the canon and an indispensible purchase for any self-respecting fan of The Fabs.
RIP, Bob.
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joão carlos correa marquesReviewed in Brazil on November 28, 20225.0 out of 5 stars THE LOST BEATLES ...
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseSOU BEATLEMANIACO E ESTA É RAZÃO SUFICIENTE PARA INCORPORAR O LIVRO 'A MINHA COLEÇÃO PARTICULAR
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Miguel A.B.V.Reviewed in Spain on June 2, 20134.0 out of 5 stars fotos para coleccionistas
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseSi eres coleccionista de los Beatles está muy bien, pero si no, uno más de tantos libros de gran calidad con fotos. En este caso inéditas, pero que al final están todas en algún sitio, y si no, las hay muy parecidas.
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siegel, michaelaReviewed in Germany on September 3, 20245.0 out of 5 stars tolles buch
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