i don't remember exactly where i found this very early shot of the pre-ringo beatles from their days in Hamburg...obviously before Brian Epstein got hold of them. are those wild boots on george or what? and look at all that leather and lit-for-the-smoking-cigs. can you imagine the collective freak-out middle America would've had if they'd gone on Ed Sullivan looking like that? it would've been a different scene, man. I wanna hold your hand? how about, '...i wanna hold your bottle of gin whilst you-switchblade-kick someone's ass in the alleyway, john,' ...can you imagine? i wasn't born yesterday...i know those boys must've had like, carnal, el-strangeo, jack-the-ripper-with-bellydancers-style fun in those days. and by the way, on 'hot' grounds, george wins this horserace, hands down.
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