1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney Paperback Book

Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm, which ran from 28 June - 1 Oct 2023.

‘Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.’

In 2020, a trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. This paperback book provides an intimate record of the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. Inside it explores 275 of McCartney's photographs and his candid reflections on them. Taken from the six cities of these legendary months – Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington D.C and Miami.



Format: 24.5 x 28.5 cm

Pages: 335 pages

Illustrations: 275 photographs taken by McCartney

ISBN: 9780241629000

Binding: Paperback

More about the author:

Featuring a foreword by Paul McCartney

A preface by Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Beatleland, an introduction by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore

Another Lens, an essay by National Portrait Gallery Senior Curator Rosie Broadley