Короткое интервью с фотографом Томом Мюрреем
(позаимствовано из блога Сары Шмидт:
http://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/search/label/Mad%20Day%20Out )
Sara: How many photos of the Beatles did you take for the "Mad day Out" session?
Tom: I took less than 40 images all during the day, when I had processed the 2 rolls of color film, I edited them down to 23 of the very best and destroyed the rest.
Sara: Which of the photo are your favorites?
Tom: "Nowhere man", as he never knew the most famous four boys in the world were all around him, he never woke up from his nap, I also love my solo photo of George and the one of Paul profile.
Sara: My blog is about the Beatles' fans and encounters the fans had with the boys. Do you recall any interactions the Beatles had with their fans during the sessions? Were the fans still having Beatlemania in 1968?
Tom: The fans were all so surprised to see the Beatles, Sunday in 1968 was very quiet, most shops did not open, pubs not until afternoon, it was church then home. We did cause two small fender benders of kids screaming "dad dad it’s the Beatles", then boom. Much to every one’s surprise, the Beatles did occasionally dash into the crowds. Most of the time we could travel around without any fuss, as no mobile phones to give the game away. Several girls were outside Paul’s house, two fainted when they saw all the Beatles getting out of the car.
Sara: Were you a Beatles fan before the photos? After meeting the Beatles, did your feelings about them change any?
Tom: Loved the music, wore out the 45s and the LPs, every new record was taken to the Sunday Times studio and played full volume all the time. I thought they were a great bunch of guys, mostly around my age, it never dawned on me how famous they had become until folks found out I had spent the whole day with them.
Sara: The blog also likes to focus a bit on the people in the Beatles inner circle, Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall etc. What members of the inner circle were there (I know I have seen photos of Mal Evans) and how did they help the photo shoot?
Tom: Mal drove them around all day in Georges, Dark Green Mercedes Pullman, Mal’s son was with us, Yoko stayed In the background, the four Beatles really bounced ideas of off each other as we went from place to place for what is now knows as Tom Murray’s Mad Day Out.
When I got my Jaguar XK 150 back to my mother’s home, where I kept it, she asked:- “ what kind of day I had”, I told her I has spent all day with the Beatles, she screamed then she asked what was it like, I said:- “it was a Mad Day Out”.
