Rare Photographs: Ringo and Maureen Starkey

Not exactly rare, but I've never seen these particular pictures in such amazingly good quality. Great color as well, too bad about the watermarks all over their faces. 

Rare Photographs: Chrissie Shrimpton

Another rare find, for me at least. Pictures of Chrissie modeling in 1969, and some in color too!

Birds of Britain: Chrissie Shrimpton

Photoshoot: Ossie Clark Invents Summer... Pattie Wears It

Pattie did a fab shoot wearing beautiful dresses by her favortie designer, Ossie Clark. Photos by David Bailey for UK Vogue, June 1969.

The Apple Boutique: Where beautiful people can buy beautiful things

The first rockstars to open a clothing boutique were The Beatles in 1967. And like Themis, it seemed like a good idea at the time. But in the end it turned out to be disaster. At least it looked cool. Eric Clapton, Charlotte Martin, Keith and Kim Moon, along with other Swinging Londoners attended the grand opening.  Here's a video I found with some footage of the boutique's grand opening in color! And a picture of the inside of the boutique's dressing room area, in color as well!

p.s. Wouldn't it have been great if Jane had posed for the add with the other Beatle ladies instead of Jenny?  It would make the picture a lot more special and interesting I think. I wonder where she was, oh well, it's still such an iconic photograph.

  Jenny Boyd worked at the boutique. And according to Wikipedia she, along with John's old Liverpool buddy Pete Shotton, managed the store.

Photoshoot: Jane Asher for Vogue 1964

Photoshoot: Pattie and Jenny Boyd for Foale & Tuffin

The Muse Behind the Song: Melanie Coe

I read the news today, oh boy... John wasn't the only Beatle who could create songs from newspaper headlines.
Paul was reading the newspaper one day when he came upon the story of Melanie Coe. A 17-year old who had ran away from home to be with her casino dealer boyfriend (I'm sure he was quite the catch). And so, with a little help from John, the song She's Leaving Home came to be. The funny thing is, Paul had met Melanie a few years earlier on the show Ready! Steady! Go!. Paul was judging a miming contest and he picked Melanie as the winner.

Stamp Out The Beatles!

I've always wanted one of these cool Stamp Out The Beatles sweaters. As you can see, Brian was the first to sport the sweater, and I wonder if all four Fabs got one of their own. Or Brian simply gave it to George, who in turn lent it to Pattie (pictured with sister Jenny and Chris O'Dell at Friar Park), and from there it now belongs to Dhani (who wore the sweater, which turned out to be purple, to the rehearsals for the Concert For George. Then again, it might not even be the same sweater).  I wonder if the sweater had anything to do with Ringo's campaign to Stamp Out Detroit I saw in a youtube video that I'll post if I ever find it again.

He's a real nowhere man...

Well, in this case, Nowhere Boy. Here's the trailer for the untold story told hundereds of times before. I must admit, it looks interesting and I just can't wait to see it. Sure there are some inaccuracies, (ex: John had dreamy brown eyes, not dreamy blue eyes!) But they seem to be a good cast of actors, and I think they captured the style very well.