1) Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru) (2) Aleister Crowley (occultist) (3) Mae West (actress) (4) Lenny Bruce (comedian) (5) Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer) (6) W. C. Fields (comedian/actor) (7) Carl Jung (psychiatrist) (8) Edgar Allan Poe (writer) (9) Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)[5] (10) Richard Merkin (artist and friend of Peter Blake)[5] (11) The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)[5] (12) Leo Gorcey (image was removed from cover, but a space remains) (13) Huntz Hall (actor) (14) Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers) (15) Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter) Second row (16) Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) (17) Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister) (18) Aldous Huxley (writer) (19) Dylan Thomas (poet) (20) Terry Southern (writer) (21) Dion DiMucci (singer/songwriter) (22) Tony Curtis (actor) (23) Wallace Berman (artist) (24) Tommy Handley (comedian) (25) Marilyn Monroe (actress) (26) William S. Burroughs (writer) (27) Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru) (28) Stan Laurel (actor/comedian) (29) Richard Lindner (artist) (30) Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian) (31) Karl Marx (political philosopher) (32) H. G. Wells (writer) (33) Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru) (34A) James Joyce (Irish poet and novelist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan (34) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy) Third row (35) Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle) (36) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy) (37) Max Miller (comedian) (38) A "Petty Girl" (by artist George Petty) (39) Marlon Brando (actor) (40) Tom Mix (actor) (41) Oscar Wilde (writer) (42) Tyrone Power (actor) (43) Larry Bell (artist) (44) David Livingstone (missionary/explorer) (45) Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor) (46) Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm (47) Issy Bonn (comedian) (48) George Bernard Shaw (playwright) (49) H. C. Westermann (sculptor) (50) Albert Stubbins (English footballer) (51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru) (52) Lewis Carroll (writer) (53) T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") Front row (54) Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer) (55) A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty) (56) Wax model of George Harrison (57) Wax model of John Lennon (58) Shirley Temple (child actress) - barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover (59) Wax model of Ringo Starr (60) Wax model of Paul McCartney (61) Albert Einstein (physicist) - largely obscured (62) John Lennon holding a French horn (63) Ringo Starr holding a trumpet (64) Paul McCartney holding a cor anglais (65) George Harrison holding a piccolo (65A) Bette Davis (actress) - hair barely visible on top of George's shoulder (66) Bobby Breen (singer) (67) Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer) (68) Mahatma Gandhi was planned for this position, but was deleted prior to publication (69) An American legionnaire[6] (70) Wax model of Diana Dors (actress) (71) Shirley Temple (child actress) - second appearance on the cover

1) Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru) (2) Aleister Crowley (occultist) (3) Mae West (actress) (4) Lenny Bruce (comedian) (5) Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer) (6) W. C. Fields (comedian/actor) (7) Carl Jung (psychiatrist) (8) Edgar Allan Poe (writer) (9) Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)[5] (10) Richard Merkin (artist and friend of Peter Blake)[5] (11) The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)[5] (12) Leo Gorcey (image was removed from cover, but a space remains) (13) Huntz Hall (actor) (14) Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers) (15) Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter) Second row (16) Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) (17) Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister) (18) Aldous Huxley (writer) (19) Dylan Thomas (poet) (20) Terry Southern (writer) (21) Dion DiMucci (singer/songwriter) (22) Tony Curtis (actor) (23) Wallace Berman (artist) (24) Tommy Handley (comedian) (25) Marilyn Monroe (actress) (26) William S. Burroughs (writer) (27) Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru) (28) Stan Laurel (actor/comedian) (29) Richard Lindner (artist) (30) Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian) (31) Karl Marx (political philosopher) (32) H. G. Wells (writer) (33) Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru) (34A) James Joyce (Irish poet and novelist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan (34) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy) Third row (35) Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle) (36) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy) (37) Max Miller (comedian) (38) A "Petty Girl" (by artist George Petty) (39) Marlon Brando (actor) (40) Tom Mix (actor) (41) Oscar Wilde (writer) (42) Tyrone Power (actor) (43) Larry Bell (artist) (44) David Livingstone (missionary/explorer) (45) Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor) (46) Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm (47) Issy Bonn (comedian) (48) George Bernard Shaw (playwright) (49) H. C. Westermann (sculptor) (50) Albert Stubbins (English footballer) (51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru) (52) Lewis Carroll (writer) (53) T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") Front row (54) Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer) (55) A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty) (56) Wax model of George Harrison (57) Wax model of John Lennon (58) Shirley Temple (child actress) - barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover (59) Wax model of Ringo Starr (60) Wax model of Paul McCartney (61) Albert Einstein (physicist) - largely obscured (62) John Lennon holding a French horn (63) Ringo Starr holding a trumpet (64) Paul McCartney holding a cor anglais (65) George Harrison holding a piccolo (65A) Bette Davis (actress) - hair barely visible on top of George's shoulder (66) Bobby Breen (singer) (67) Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer) (68) Mahatma Gandhi was planned for this position, but was deleted prior to publication (69) An American legionnaire[6] (70) Wax model of Diana Dors (actress) (71) Shirley Temple (child actress) - second appearance on the cover

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41:39 Jeremy Clarkson doing a dance😍🤣😂🤣😂😍 (You might have to pause the vid to catch the joke)

The very first group to be broadcast on radio in the UK was the Swinging Blue Jeans😮and they weren't acknowledged either. Also what about the ladies like Cilla Black, Helen Shapiro and others?

Whilst the BBC did not broadcast any rock n roll in the late 1950s and early 1960's us teenagers were listening to rock n roll on Radio Luxembourg.

Wish i had anything from the beatles autograph photo

We used to drive up to Liverpool to listen to all of the bands that were playing, including multiple visits to The Cavern. It was not really the best place to listen: the crowds, smoke and acoustics were bad, but it was clear from day one that the Beatles were in a separate class.

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these kids are GREAT long live BEAT MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was 19 when this all started but I had seen all the Liverpool groups before they became famous as I lived on Merseyside and all these bands played for our dances. Went to the Cavern, Tower Ballroom, the Majestic and many other venues! So lucky!!

Well, I was there in that time, and I have to say this is a brilliant retelling of what happened in those exciting years.

Simply a treasure!

The easily oligarch-manipulated freedom to be insane counterculture consumer democracy of sheeple during the 1963-2024 horror is something rationality and reason run away screeming from!

You can tell how sick the BBC was even then.

I was just about to write the same thing. Arguably, the DC5 could have grown to be the best of all had they remained together.

Most of these bands had a bucket of good tunes but the Beatles had a tanker

This was shown in the U.S., correct? I remember a 20th anniversary special being shown, but did not realize it originally came from Granada TV in UK. Unless the U.S. 20th Anniversary was different? I think it was on PBS.

I remember the first time I heard the album. I was 12 years old and babysitting some kids. The parents had the album so I listened to it until they got home. Yes, back then a 12 year old could babysit other kids . . .

The Beatles were the first British group to perform on Ed Sullivan after he saw their fans at Heathrow airport and invited them to America -----73 million tuned in to see them ..... the invasion began after that!!!!

John you went the BEST forever

A time when Britain had free speech and freedom of expression. What a liberal dump Britain has become.

I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan when I was 7. I saw The Beatles, Live ! when I was 9. Aug1965Portland OR USA I loved the British Invasion and I'm half Welsh. Great show Thx

ANIMALS: My first favourite.

Many people today may not realise this but we who were living through this in the early 1960s, never got to see most of the footage here! Except for short snippets sometimes on the BBC news, none of it was available in England, so we relied on listening to the radio to hear the performers and programmes like Top of the Pops etc. on TV once each week! We knew something big was happening to the Beatles etc., from newspaper and magazine articles but without actual film footage (no video those days, no internet, no smartphones!) you had no real sense of it! Even local coverage such as it was (only two TV channels), never concerned themselves with the "also-rans" and there must have been many such bands which we never even heard of at the time! Sounds strange in this digital day and age, with almost anything on call at the click of a mouse, but that is how it was back then!

The Beatles are given credit for being the most revolutionary band in rock 'n' roll history. And they were. But they were also the most EVOLUTIONARY band in history. Here's a group that went from "I want to hold your hand" to the White Album in about 5 years. Can any other band make that claim?

Well.... at least you came up with the Zombies at the end....

Love Me Do was the best song on Sgt. Pepper…

Было ВРЕМЯ - была МУЗЫКА ! Современная музыка - дерьмо !

What a blast.

23:41 レコードジャケット、『SUKIYAKI (上を向いて歩こう)』 坂本九(1963) ここで、見れるとは…

The who were originally the high numbers and first single was zoot suit when I knew them

The Romans actually created London.

Can we go back just for a day.

Mass histeria by sub teens ~ Now its a young lady

A remarkable era in time

Freddy blew chunks

I always laugh at how hyped up these young girls got, at a Beatles concert.

I was ten in '64 and had a transistor radio up to my ear practically 24/ 7!

ah wonder what aw them grannies think seein them selves now cos most of them will be 70 or 80 Yr old , aye !

Ferry Cross the Mersey still brings tears to my eyes, sixty years on.

This footage was 1965 & 66

You made NO mention of the worldwide phenomenon MOTOWN!

The Tielman Brothers from Holland taught John Lennon & Paul McCartney how to play rock 'n' roll and develop their stage actin Hamburg . Years later, when they asked Millionaire Macca for medical assistance, he had conveniently forgotten all about them.

Why all the fuss over The Beatles? There were many better, brilliant and longer lasting groups to come out of the 60s. The Rolling Stones started in 62 and are still performing 62 years later. Think The Beatles lasted 10 years?

Of all those early UK beat groups, no one 'wailed the blues' like Eric Burdon.

📺 1967 1987 1992

Yes the 1930s was grim. But it was geographically very variable in the UK - and France and the US had worse depressions, whereas the downturn in the early 1920s in Britain was worse than theirs (thought not as bad as Germany's). The accidental adoption of cheap money and house building meant that the National Government had a better record than some assume. That's not to negate the misery of unemployment or the achievement of 1945-51. But this view is now not eccentric; it's become pretty mainstream amongst historians.

One of the best group that l knew and listen.

I videotaped this from The Discovery Channel in 1990. What a treasure.