Classic Rock

Here, Ian plays a signature riff at the Newport Folk Festival in 1969.

Ray Davies, lead singer for The Kinks, takes a break backstage at a rock club in Kenmore Square.

Jefferson Airplane playing "Somebody to Love" at a free concert on Mt. Tam in Marin County.

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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 ...

“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...

“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...

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...

“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 ...

Beatles answer questions at a press conference in the Warwick Hotel

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...

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...