When The Beatles performed All You Need Is Love for the BBC’s Our World production in June 1967, it was another revolutionary moment for band which had by then made a habit of them.
Going out to over 400 million people worldwide, the events of the first ever first live, international television event was captured in unique fashion by David Magnus, a photographer who had already forged a close working relationship with the Fab Four.
And his collection from this session is to be displayed at Proud Galleries on King’s Road in London between March 16th-May 14th this year, neatly timed to mark the 50th anniversary of the occasion. “As I came from the EMI canteen, one of the female studio staff stopped me, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, ‘I must touch you as you’ve been in the same room as The Beatles’,” Magnus says.