Via Variety:
McCartney joined Conan O’Brien at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Thursday evening to promote his new book, a collection of unearthed photographs titled “1964: Eyes of the Storm.” Between 1963 and 1964, McCartney took 275 photos on a 35mm camera, documenting the Beatles’ incredible rise in Europe and first visit to America, including their historic performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” McCartney thought he lost the photos, he told the audience, until a photo archivist in London recovered them in 2020.
...The photographs that elicited the strongest reaction from the audience were intimate, unguarded shots of John Lennon. In one shot, Lennon, wearing thick eyeglasses unseen to the general public at the time, rides in the back of a car, his hand perched on his chin and his eyes looking away.
“I think only you could get this,” O’Brien said of the photo. “I see vulnerability, and I see some anxiety.”
“I don’t know about the anxiety, but vulnerability is very true,” McCartney said. “He had a really tragic life.”
...Once the Beatles got to Miami, the band had a police escort. Fascinated, McCartney snapped a photo of the gun on one of the cop’s hips — his face cropped out.
“I was so amazed to see a gun and ammo,” McCartney explained, and then, to big applause: “In England, we were very lucky. The cops don’t have guns.”
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