JULY 2014

THE BEATLES

It was 50 years ago that The Beatles arrived in Australia for their first and only tour. They have since become the best-selling band in history, and are one of the most iconic popular music groups of our time.

If you wanted to see how many ways one 'thing' can be visually represented, you couldn't do better than choose The Beatles. The images on the following pages barely scratch the surface when it comes tolooking for examples of photo manipulation, and illustration using an enormous range of styles, media and techniques.

Image on right: Featuring headshots of Rogan Gosh, Paradax, Martin from Skin and Mirkin the Mystic, this is Brendan McCarthy’s tribute to the cover of the classic Beatles album Let It Be, all done in his trademark style

In the art world, the Beatles helped popularise the psychedelic styles of graphic designers like Milton Glaser, Peter Max, and Heinz Edelmann, the art director of the band's Yellow Submarine film