1960s

Frank Zappa, pictured playing drums, also played guitar, percussion, piano, etc. He once "played" a bicycle on the old Steve Allen TV show. A true ...

Joan Baez was on top of the folk music world in 1967, when she appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, and seeing her "live in concert" was a real t...

Beatles John Lennon continues to play the guitar as he evades a young fan who wants Lennon's yachting-style cap as a souvenir during the Beatles co...

Rolling Stone Mick Jagger relaxes with a guitar in a London dressing room in 1968. (AP Photo/Robert Dear)

Mitch Mitchell was one of the members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience when he came to play in Ann Arbor, in 1967.

This is one of the photographer’s favorite pictures from The Mad Day shoot. The longest-haired of the subjects was the subject of Paul’s well-know...

“Paul and I had a little game going on,” Tom Murray remembers. “He would check to see if I was watching him and then pull some silly face or make ...

These portraits of the individual members of The Band were taken in late 1969 for their appearance on the cover of Time Magazine, on January 12, 19...

These portraits of the individual members of The Band were taken in late 1969 for their appearance on the cover of Time Magazine, on January 12, 19...

Entertainers Sonny, right, and Cher sing during taping of "The Danny Thomas Special" in Los Angeles, CA, on Jan. 21, 1966. (AP Photo)

For Tom Murray, his role as a sideman on the “Mad Day” shoot was liberating. “I realized I had the unique opportunity to shoot what I wanted and w...

“This was a lot of fun, they were just play acting the whole time,” says Tom. “It was a sequence of five shots and took about an hour.” Paul almos...

The intensity of the colors in shots like this one, photographed in St. Regents Park, stand in stark contrast to the iconic photos so familiar to f...

“Bring along your camera. You might get some nice snaps.” With those words, spoken in the summer of 1968, a fellow photographer invited Tom Murra...

At London’s Old Street Underground station, The Beatles used a wooden plank as a ramp and climbed on top of a large concrete block that was in the ...

“The guys were in a great mood,” Tom Murray says. “It was a super shoot and great fun.” The following day, the band went into the studio to reco...

Shot in impromptu scenes around London such as this, “The Mad Day” photographs are from the last publicity shoot of all four of the Beatles. They...

When the group arrived by the banks of The Thames, Tom Murray recalls, “John dropped to the ground, pretending to be dead. The Beatles laughed. N...

Ed Sullivan, center, stands with The Beatles during a rehearsal for the British group's first American appearance, on the "Ed Sullivan Show," in Ne...