{"id":63992,"date":"2025-08-12T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63992\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:47:10","slug":"candid-beatles-moments-captured-by-paul-mccartney-to-be-exhibited-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63992\/","title":{"rendered":"Candid Beatles moments captured by Paul McCartney to be exhibited in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Published on
\n 12\/08\/2025 – 7:14 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n

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\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n

A new exhibition at Gagosian in London will showcase Paul McCartney\u2019s<\/a> candid photographs of the Beatles<\/a> during their meteoric rise in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

Titled “Rearview Mirror: Liverpool\u2013London\u2013Paris”, the show opens on 28 August and offers an unusually intimate look at the band\u2019s early days \u2013 through the eyes of McCartney himself. <\/p>\n

Shot between December 1963 and February 1964 on his 35mm Pentax camera, the photos chronicle the explosive moment just before the Fab Four conquered America.<\/p>\n

The images \u2013 some single shots, others grouped as contact sheets \u2013 capture McCartney and his bandmates during a dizzying period when Beatlemania was erupting across the UK and spreading to Europe. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnassuming\u201d and \u201cunguarded\u201d is how the gallery describes them, and it\u2019s not hard to see why: this is the band as only one of their own could see them \u2013 backstage, between shows, and in stolen moments of quiet before the storm of global fame.<\/p>\n

One haunting self-portrait<\/a> shows McCartney reflected in a mirror in the attic room of his then-girlfriend Jane Asher\u2019s family home, the very place he famously dreamt the melody for the song ‘Yesterday’.<\/p>\n

Other standout scenes include behind-the-scenes snapshots at the Lewisham Odeon, Finsbury Park Astoria and the London Palladium, where the Beatles played to increasingly frenzied crowds. There\u2019s even a set of frames capturing the tense build-up before their transatlantic flight to New York<\/a> \u2013 the beginning of their global takeover.<\/p>\n

The prints, remastered from negatives thought lost for over 50 years, are signed by McCartney and issued in a small, carefully crafted edition \u2013 each framed in a style he designed himself.<\/p>\n

This London exhibition follows McCartney\u2019s photography debut earlier this year at Gagosian Beverly Hills, and runs in parallel with the touring show “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963\u201364: Eyes of the Storm”, currently on view at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a Beatles die-hard or just curious to see a cultural storm from a new angle, “Rearview Mirror” promises an up-close look at one of the most transformative times in modern music \u2013 seen through the eyes of someone who helped shape it.<\/p>\n

“Rearview Mirror: Liverpool\u2013London\u2013Paris” runs at Gagosian London (Davies Street) from 28 August-4 October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 12\/08\/2025 – 7:14 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A new exhibition at Gagosian in London will showcase Paul McCartney\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,12269,26097,341,9998,10000,9999],"class_list":["post-63992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery","tag-music","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-photography","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}