- September 27, 2008
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Great Fotos Never Grow Old!
We always talk about the importance of a photo agency’s archive and this foto is a good example why. Fotos never lose their importance when they capture an iconic image or a memorable subject. This foto of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has both. It is amazing and beautiful. Brad Elterman took this picture of the two as they arrived with Ringo Starr at On the Rocks Night Club, in 1977.
Beatles news never gets old, and the http://news.guelphmercury.com is reporting that recently a new and rare Beatles tape has surfaced. They said:
“A former Spectator photographer’s failure more than four decades ago to sell a tape recording of a Beatles news conference in Toronto could land him in the money.
Paul Hourigan, who went on to work as a photographer for The Spectator for 34 years, tried to sell the 13 1/2-minute tape to Hamilton’s radio stations and The Spectator in August 1966, but no one was interested.
He gave the tape to his wife Florence and it lay in a cigar box of memorabilia for decades.
The tape features the band talking about John Lennon’s statement that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, the Vietnam War and U.S. draft dodgers coming to Canada.
Hourigan, 63, went looking for the tape a few months ago when he read a story about someone trying to sell a bootleg recording of The Beatles’ concert at Maple Leaf Gardens on Aug. 17, 1966. It was one of the last concerts they staged before the band stopped touring.
EBay estimated the bootleg’s value at $20,000 to $30,000.”
The tape may be expensive, but this foto is priceless!
