Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney these largely unseen photographs capture the
explosive period from the end of 1963 through early 1964 in which The Beatles became an
international sensation and changed the course of music history. Featuring 275 images from the
six cities-Liverpool London Paris New York Washington D.C. and Miami-of these legendary
months 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes: . A personal foreword in which McCartney
recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls followed by the hysteria that greeted the
band on its first American visit . Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that
form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the "Eyes of the Storm "
plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964 . "Beatleland " an essay by Harvard historian and
New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass
culture phenomenon Handsomely designed 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic
record of The Beatles' first transatlantic trip documenting the radical shift in youth culture
that crystallized in 1964. "You could hold your camera up to the world in 1964. But what
madness would you capture what beauty what joy what fury?" -Jill Lepore
