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THE BEATLES released their eighth album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on this day 55-years-ago, but there is a little-known story behind the ...

THE BEATLES released their eighth album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on this day 55-years-ago, but there is a little-known story behind the record's title that is connected to a real-life Canadian officer who "saved" the band in their time of need. But overall, the family didn’t consider it terribly important." The real-life Sgt Pepper's granddaughter, Cheryl Finn, spoke out about the man and that fateful day in 2017. But the most obvious is the OPP patch on his left arm. She said: "It was just part of family folklore. It also earned four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and has since sold more than 32 million copies worldwide.

The photographs were taken during the band's six-day-tour before they became famous. | ITV News West Country.

The iconic collection of photographs were taken during the band's six-day-tour in Weston-Super-Mare before the band became a global success. A series of rare photographs of The Beatles taken before they became famous have been sold for more than £10,000 at auction. Rare photographs of The Beatles at Weston-super-Mare fetch more than £10,000 at auction

Jackson and editor Jabez Olssen discuss using machine learning to isolate previously inaudible 'Get Back' tapes.

And I remember that it was late in the process Peter said, “I’ve gone back through the rushes and there’s this great bit that we didn’t know.” Early on in Twickenham with John and Paul are discussing, “Well, how are we going to play this? Jackson: I became terrified with the sheer bulk of material that we were always going to miss out on something that we shouldn’t miss out on. So in the last eight months we developed the software that we could separate and isolate things that we didn’t understand. And I realized there’s no help to be gotten from any of the books that I read over the years in terms of what this was about, because the books were so inaccurate about what actually happened during that month. And I remember it was fairly late in the piece that Peter went back and watched the footage again. Because, look, it would be a lifetime dream of mine to do a Beatles movie, but I don’t want to do the Beatles breakup film.” And if this footage is indeed showing them breaking up — as we all believe it — and if “Let It Be” represents the stuff that they were happy for people to see, what the hell is going to be in this footage that they didn’t want people to see back then? But if you regard the audio as being like a timeline and then the cameras switch on and off at different places all the way through that 130 hours, there’s about 57 hours in total of picture. For the past few years, they solved that by overdubbing and just doing a second pass, but here they wanted to play like a normal band. And the first thing you said to me is that, you know, despite all the mythology about what the time was like and how miserable it was, that is not what you’re seeing in the footage. What story are you going to tell?” I said, “Well, let’s just wait.” Olssen: Well, the first thing I ever heard [about the project], Peter, was that you sent me an email because you were in England and you had gone into the Apple offices and you had started watching it there on videotape in their conference room. So, you know, as as a Beatles fan I’ve been reading Beatle books for 40-odd years and had painted a picture of the “Get Back” sessions in my head based on all the books, as most people have.

Gene Pesek viewed the world as if he were a camera. “I see photography no matter where I am,” he once said in an interview with videographer Jim Quattrocki, ...

“It was the key to the whole series.” Once, he told his daughters he was going to be shooting a band named Twigs, or maybe it was Branches. Young Gene grew up near 70th Street and South Lawndale Avenue. His father was an architect, which influenced his way of seeing the world’s lines and patterns, he said in the interview. Working on the Mirage investigation, he and Frost pretended to be repairmen in an effort to avoid suspicion. Mr. Pesek preferred to write notes on paper plates rather than on paper. He and fellow photographer Jim Frost shot undercover photos capturing shakedowns for bribes at the Mirage tavern, a dive bar at 731 N. Wells St., that the Sun-Times bought to catch and expose corruption. Mr. Pesek’s wife died in 2010. Mr. Pesek chronicled the beautiful and the bestial in a nearly 40-year career as a Chicago Sun-Times photographer. When they tried to set it free, it kept flying back to them. To capture a memorable moment, Mr. Pesek might go up in a helicopter with the doors wide open. Not that he always knew who it was he was making pictures of. I can be driving on [the] Dan Ryan and looking straight ahead, and I’ll see a picture.”