50 years ago today: April 9, 1969: The Beatles' penultimate photo session. Deeply iconic shots by photographer Bruce McBroom at Madingley Club, Ducks Walk and in the River Thames in London. The photos are a treasure - the reactions, the closeness https://www.nemsworld.com/beatles/fritz/fritz.htm

The much missed Kenwood Lennon blog visited the site of the shoot a few years ago for a comparison of then and now: http://kenwoodlennon.blogspot.com/2010/09/madingley-clubducks-walk-then-now.html

The b/w photo of them just standing there - was used in a lot of promotion a few years ago, too - is possibly my favorite photo of them from any period

This photo was used to terrific effect in the 1982 documentary The Compleat Beatles , the VHS tape of which I wore out. The sequence detailed the breakup of the band, while the end of "I'm So Tired" plays. One by one, they disappear until it's a blank screen. I was gutted

My wife got me a huge, framed version of that same photo for my birthday a few years ago.

Perhaps incredibly, Bruce McBroom's photos of the Beatles aren't even close to being his most famous work. That's because he took THIS photo, too

Meanwhile, the Beatles weren’t even promoting anything. Let It Be project was over, and Get Back single was days away from release, too late to use the photos. Proper work on Abbey Road hadn’t really begun yet. But it made for good Beatles Book content

True minutiae, but it just occurred to me that these photos represent the first images of the Beatles in which they're all married men