Some of my favorite Beatle-related magazines from 1967 and 1968
1967 and 1968 were a couple of both magical and surreal years as is reflected in a few magazines from that era!
Society was facing the dichotomy of the summer of love mentality clashing with thoughts of revolution and civil disobedience.
Though the primary focus of this blog has been books up to this point, thought it would be a nice break to deal with a few interesting Beatles magazines from the 67-68 era:
1967 Beatwave Magazine Issue #2 Features a Paul McCartney Self Portrait on the Cover Radio Caroline Pirate Radio Station Feature with Tony Blackburn
The Beatles Radio Caroline Pirate Radio Station-notice the dedication to Free Radio listeners everywhere
Paul’s Self Portrait was painted for the magazine. This was also the year when Paul admitted to the press that he had taken LSD.
A fantastic cover photo by the late Henry Grossman. This photo shot only appeared on the cover in the Asian geographical regions of the world. It also appeared in Australia and New Zealand.
‘TeenSet’ 1968 Feb. 1968 magazine w/ Lennon & Hendrix poster -notice the fascination with the multi-colored depictions of a Beatle on the cover. Noticing the date on the magazine, that is the month that the Beatles recorded “Across the Universe.”
An excerpt from the magazine
Part of the double-sided poster with John Lennon on one side and Jimi Hendrix on the other.
As the protests of the war in Vietnam were increasing so was the youth culture’s resistance to the establishment and anti-war protests began to increase. This issue featured the colorful Richard Avedon portraits of the Beatles. There was also a black and white Beatles poster included as an insert to this issue of the magazine. As the political events of the political convention in November were unfolding, the Beatles released their song of “Revolution.”
As depicted in another post on this blog, even though Look Magazine used the Lennon Avedon photo as the cover, the only country that used all four of the Avedon color psychedelic photos of the Beatles as primary cover shots was Spain which featured an issue of Rolling Stone Magazine where each Beatle’s Avedon photo was the cover of the magazine. Of course the Spanish Rolling Stone portrayals in Rolling Stone was in the new century after much time had passed.
1968 featured the colorful fantasy film titled “Yellow Submarine.”
There were two issues of this Yellow Submarine magazine. This one is the 48-page issue.
This is the 64 page issue of the magazine
The 60’s were to end a couple of years later and ironically, so did the Beatles!
How many original 60s magazines have you got? Do you have a favourite? Let me know in the comments below.
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Too bad that Teenset, Datebook, Look and Show: The Magazine of Film and The Arts, never created an online archive that could be researched, like Life, Ebony, Jet and Spin. In actuality, there was an American edition of Look, that contained all four photographs by Richard Avedon. I have an old copy. There was also a Signet paperback of the Yellow Submarine animated film. The photo cover of the Asia Edition of Life, became a pretty popular poster back then.
Antonio, yes, the Look magazine contained the 4 individual Avedon Beatle portraits within the magazine, but the only set of magazines that featured all four individual Beatle Avedon prints on the cover of the respective magazine were on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine set in Spain!!!