{"product_id":"it-was-thirty-years-ago-today-9780805034400","title":"It Was Thirty Years Ago Today","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt Was Thirty Years Ago Today\u003c\/strong\u003e by Spencer, Terence. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780805034400.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1963, when Beatlemania was just beginning to explode in Britain, photographer Terry Spencer returned from working on news stories in Africa to find his daughter - then thirteen - begging him to do a feature on \"the Fab Four.\" The editors of Life magazine were at first unimpressed by the idea; in America the group was still practically unknown. But after the Beatles had agreed to let Spencer travel with them for four months, in January 1964 Life did indeed publish a feature, just before the band launched into its historic and triumphant tour of the States.\nThirty years later, 5,000 negatives of Spencers Beatles photographs - virtually all of them unpublished - resurfaced and were sold at auction by Sothebys of London. It Was Thirty Years Ago Today contains the cream of these \"lost\" pictures, presenting a uniquely fresh and uninhibited portrait of the Beatles at a time when they were on the very brink of international stardom - still anonymous enough to allow Spencer intimate access yet already famous enough to need protection from their multitudes of fans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brand: Henry Holt n Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987033321525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805034404","price":40.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805034400_09b31315-19e4-4049-bc4e-af6469c5e719.jpg?v=1778824143","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/it-was-thirty-years-ago-today-9780805034400","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}