[Pablo Fanques]

[Claude Nine]

[Claude Nine]

... et arrivées à pied par la Chine, voici 4 cartes téléphoniques :









Ce qui, après un effort qui prendrait plusieurs heures à George W. Bush ou à tout membre de notre gouvernement, donne ceci :


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Claude

"Je ne parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit" (Michel Audiard)

[albarelli]

C'est un forum anti Sarko et anti Bush ou bien un forum sur les Beatles ?

Pat, qui pense que sous couvert de l'humour on peut faire passer beaucoup d'idées sans trop se mouiller...

[Claude Nine]

[Zongadude]

[CHAMBRENOIR]

J’aime bien la perruque de Sir Paul McCartney
ou bien il y cache un casque ou alors c'est une chabka Beatlesien ...

[Mop Top]

[Filou]

[Mop Top]

Le nez dans mon étoile =

[Filou]

[goodfinger]

[Filou]

Ah oui, pas mal !!!

Bien joué Stéphane Goodfinger

Jusqu'à maintenant, je croyais qu'il s'agissait d'une simple séance improvisée dans les couloirs du George V pendant leur séjour à Paris pour leur Olympia 1964. Et le photographe en question pouvait être Dezo Hoffmann qui les suivaient un peu partout à cette époque-là, et notamment en France..

Mais cela n'est pas aussi simple que ça n'en a l'air.



Voila donc enfin l'histoire de cette fameuse photo.


A few days ago, we posted a photo puzzle:
Who took these photos with the flag - and where and when?

We had been presented with two different photo captions: One which said the photo was taken in January 1964 in Paris, the other had it from a photo call in April 1964 for future use to promote the upcoming (August) U.S. tour.

One of our readers, Stephane Fremon from France pointed us in the direction of a collector's card from 1998 with the photo, and the back says that it was taken by Dezo Hoffmann.




This gave me a clue, so I leafed through my copy of Hoffmann's book "With The Beatles". There, beside a small black and white reproduction of the photo, Hoffmann remembered having taken it immediately after they had heard the news about "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

So I guess these photos were taken some time between having the pillow fight (Harry Benson) and Eppy wearing the chamber pot on his head. But then we heard from another reader...



We thought we had it solved until Roland showed up. Roland Lestoquoit wrote in his commentary:
These photos were taken in Paris in 1964 by David Steen (see his book "Heroes and Villains" on Genesis Publications). The band was appearing at the Paris Olympia during three weeks and they were staying at the George V hotel.

Prior to their future visit to the US, David was asked to take promo shots and borrowed the flag from the American embassy in Paris; The flag was then Army escorted from the embassy to the hotel for the session. Unfortunately, David later lost the copyright. So how come Dezo thought that he had taken the photos?



Both Dezo Hoffmann's book and David Steen's limited-to-1250-copies book are reproducing only cropped, black and white versions of the photo.



Unless something else happens, we are going to go with the David Steen version of the story. Hoffmann didn't mention an army escort from the U.S. embassy. What's a bit strange though, is an observation by another reader, McCracken, who commented: "It's a 48 star (pre 1959) flag."



Et tout ça est sur le blog de Roger Stormo


Bon, juste à un détail près, que la série de carte date de 1993 et non 1998 :

One of our readers, Stephane Fremon from France pointed us in the direction of a collector's card from 1998 with the photo, and the back says that it was taken by Dezo Hoffmann.


Et ce qui m'a donné l'idée de creuser pour une autre séance photo où l'on retrouve d'ailleurs notre Dezo Hoffmann décidément dans les bons coups : La séance SANDWICH !!!

Merci pour le tuyau, Goodfinger

Filou