Intimate Beatles and Rolling Stones photos go on sale

An exhibition featuring 50 never-seen-before photographs of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones is about to open in New York. The "lost" images were take by Bob Bonis who managed tours for both bands between 1964 and 1966. They include pool-side shots of the Fab Four in the Bel Air estate they rented and Mick Jagger in Florida on the day he wrote Satisfaction. Gallery owner Larry Marion said: "Almost all the time when you see photographs of The Beatles and Rolling Stones, especially from early in their career, it was a photographer who was hired to take their pictures. "So they're posed photographs of the band with their arm around each other smiling, and posing for an album cover or a publicity shot, something like that. "But Bob was almost a member of the family. They took to him really well, they trusted him completely so they really let their guard down." He added: "These photographs are extraordinarily intimate and unguarded and unposed, they're almost all candid photographs." There are a total of 3,500 photos in the collection, but only 50 are on display at the Not Fade Away Gallery in an exhibition called The British Are Coming.

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ITN | March 5, 2009

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