Beatles photographer Michael Ward sadly passed away on Sunday, April 17, 2011.
In 1963, Micheal travelled to Liverpool to photograph a new pop group of whom he’d never before heard. The same day The Beatles found out they had gone to Number One for the first time, Michael spent 24 hours with the band, photographing them wandering around the streets of their hometown and rehearsing for and playing one of their last ever gigs at The Cavern club.
Such was the intensity of Michael’s subsequent career, those images lay all but forgotten for 45 years. It was a great privilege for Genesis Publications to be able to publish them, in 2008, in the limited edition A DAY IN THE LIFE. The same photographs are currently on display at the Genesis House Gallery & Reading Rooms and, in a recent review, were described as ‘inspired’.
