Special Envoy to London, Great Britain
Sir Paul McCartney, a British institution that has just celebrated its 81st anniversary, accompanies the reopening of the venerable National Portrait Gallery with an exceptional exhibition. It is thanks to a large storage that the Beatle found, in 2020, a thousand photographs captured by him nearly sixty years ago. This priceless corpus documents a key period in the life of the English group: the rise of Beatlemania, that moment when the four boys who were said to be "in the wind" revolutionized the culture of the sixties. In the eyes of the young man of 21-22 years of the time, we feel his will to keep track of this momentum, in order to be able to tell this phenomenon to his children and grandchildren. Although galvanized by success, the Beatles certainly did not imagine that it would largely outlive them.
Far from being naïve, these clichés carry an element of innocence and are devoid of any cynicism. You can feel the deep love...
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