Harry Benson - Blog Posts

The Beatles & Debbie Fyall in Central Park in New York City, NY | 8 February 1964 © Harry Benson (II)

John Lennon at the Astor Tower Hotel in Chicago, IL | 11 August 1966 © Harry Benson

"I hadn't seen them in a while and we all had changed. They had lost some of their innocence and were more cynical. They were also getting a lot of negative publicity in the United States after John's comments about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus Christ. I joined them in Chicago and Lennon was getting a lot of flak from the press. He was in his hotel room in tears and saying: 'Harry, me and my big mouth.'"~ Harry Benson

"This morning he and Paul lamented: 'We forget we're Beatles. We shall have to be more guarded in the future.' Outside the hotel pro-Beatles teenagers demonstrated AGAINST the apology. One 15-year-old shrieked: 'John has sold out to the adults.'" ~ Daily Express