{"product_id":"the-beatles-a-onenight-stand-in-the-heartland-a-collection-of-original-photographs-from-august-21-1965","title":"The Beatles!: A One-Night Stand in the Heartland : A Collection of Original Photographs from August 21  1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland is a collection of original  previously unpublished photographs from August 21  1965. As such it adds a new chapter to the Beatles story. In it  Bill Carlson brings to Beatles fans  photography aficionados  and history buffs more than 160 never-before-published photographs that document one day in the life of the Beatles on tour. The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland brings together strands from many remarkable stories. First  there is the story of the Beatles themselves as phenomenal artists who changed music and culture forever. Second  Bill Carlson tells his own impressive story of how he interacted with the Beatles on that one day. And third  the 25 000 or more screaming  shouting  cheering  swooning  clapping  crying  and singing Minnesotans who were transformed by what they experienced that day. While a high school student  Carlson apprenticed with the prestigious photographer Merle Morris. When the press passes for the Beatles day in Minneapolis came through  he grabbed one  picked up his Hasselblad and Nikon cameras  and headed out to Met Stadium  where the Minnesota Twins and Vikings performed and where the Mall of America now stands. He went not so much as a Beatles fan but as a photography-hungry youth determined to seize every opportunity to learn and perfect his art. His images show the public faces of the Beatles at their press conference at the stadium as they expertly pose and trade quips with reporters. They show the fans  who look so young  hardly even teenagers  putting Minnesota youth on the same footing as those in London and New York. They also show the more familiar scenes of Beatlemania  and his long shots of the concert stage recall that security was so strict that even photographers were banned from the field. There are other books by Beatles photographers  including The Beatles: A Private View (2003) by Robert Freeman  who photographed many album covers for the group  and Once There Was a Way (2003) by Harry Benson  who photographed them on tour from Paris to Miami. But there is no other book like this that documents one day  one concert  one place. It was a day that brought high fun and high art to the Twin Cities and changed many Beatles fans forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957649961013,"sku":"ByrdShop_1581825900","price":41.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781581825909.jpg?v=1770329315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-beatles-a-onenight-stand-in-the-heartland-a-collection-of-original-photographs-from-august-21-1965","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}