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Author:	Bill Connell as Peter Kaye
Title:	Beatles In Liverpool
Publisher:	Starlit Liverpool
Country:	UK
Date:	1987
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Music, Photography
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104 pages. Book dimensions: 23.1 cms x 0.6 cms x 15.65 cms.

Limited to 5000 copies and signed by Les Chadwick.

Bill Connell founded Peter Kaye Photography in the 1950s. The Company had a shop in Park Road, Liverpool, L8, a studio in the town centre, and eventually a studio in Bold Street.

Bill Connell and Les Chadwick from Peter Kaye Photography took photos of The Beatles on 22 August 1962 during rehearsals at The Cavern Club in Liverpool a few days after Ringo had joined the group.

In September 1962 Brian Epstein asked Bill Connell to take some publicity photos of the group. He was smartening the image of the group and wanted photos of them in suits. He told Connell that the group had a new drummer, and the existing photos were of no use to him. Brian insisted the photos be taken that afternoon and, as Bill was already engaged, Les Chadwick was given the job. The session did not go well, with the group fooling about all the time. Les felt it was hopeless.

The following morning Bill rang Brian Epstein, telling him they had nothing and that he was prepared to photograph them that afternoon, providing Brian told them to behave themselves. Bill drove around the area that morning looking for locations for what he had in mind. In the afternoon they set off to the first location, a warehouse setting, where The Beatles posed on a disused dump. They moved on to a local beauty spot known as “The Bally” on the dock road. It was an old railway site, then used as a dumping ground. At this point Bill was running late for his next appointment. He took the group to the Albert Dock where he instructed Les on the next shots and then left. Les led the boys to the Pier Head where he used the Liver Building as a backdrop. They then moved on to the fire boat The Salvor for a session of photos in a steady drizzle.

The full story and the first publicity photos of the group with its new drummer, Ringo Starr, are here in Peter Kaye's Beatles In Liverpool.

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JPGR&B SUBS 27th Jan 2022		Review Annotation: This is a photograph compilation from the renowned Liverpool photographic studios trading under the name of 'Peter Kaye'. This moniker was the commercial name of photographer Bill Connell. The photos included here of the Beatles just prior to their major success in Britain are fascinating social documents, providing as they do a backdrop of dereliction, riverine and post-industrial wastelands, and burnt-out cars. These enduring images should be placed alongside concepts that many British people held of Liverpool in the post-WWII era, both wittingly and unwittingly fostered by the media, as a declining city and it continues to be of interest that few, if any pictures were taken in (say) leafy, suburban Woolton. Dereliction obviously had far more cache in that 'British kitchen sink movie' era of the late 1950s and early 1960s than the inter-war fringe development of Menlove Avenue. British TV and film directors often used the city as a signifier of decay and decline. For example, the TV work of Dennis Mitchell, alone ('Morning in the Streets', 1958) helped to provide a stereotype from which the Beatles could not, by 1962, escape. Connell's pictures therefore capture in a most dramatic way, the diachronic and synchronic historical strands that enabled the Beatles to both capitalise upon and be caught by such predisposed cultural moods. They are amongst the most significant British photographs of the entire post-WWII era and are, naturally, indispensable to the Beatles researcher. Michael Brocken Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here with permission from the authors for educational and historical purposes only. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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