Cork In 50 Artworks, No 13: How Terry O’Neill’s photograph of The Beatles ended up in Cork
Terry O'Neill's photograph of The Beatles.
As a rookie snapper on Fleet Street, Terry O’Neill’s big break came in the autumn of 1962, when he was dispatched by the Daily Sketch to photograph a young band from Liverpool who were about to release their debut single. They called themselves The Beatles, the song was Love Me Do, and no one, least of all themselves, could have imagined that they would go on to become the most celebrated pop band of all time.
O'Neill had never photographed a group before, and he arranged the four as best he could, with John Lennon and George Harrison clutching their guitars, Ringo Starr holding a cymbal aloft, and Paul McCartney relegated to the role of the broody one.
