EMI Studios, 26 February 1964, And I love her recording session. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann. (Thanks for the exact date, thatkarthikeyan!)

I understand the urge to colour in black and white pictures, but dear LORD!

First picture is the boys at their 1963 Dezo Hoffmann photoshoot, the second is on the day John got his driver’s license.

Clippings from Peter Scholten’s scrapbook.

George at the Horne Brothers Barbershop, 25 March 1963, the day Ringo finally got his Beatle cut. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann.

Press launch for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, held at Brian Epstein’s place at 24 Chapel Street, London, on 19 May 1967.

Dezo Hoffmann’s famous jump picture, taken at the Allerton Golf Course in Liverpool, 25 March 1963.

Backstage at the Liverpool Empire, 24 March 1963. Photo by Dezo Hoffman. The photographer in the picture itself is Mike McCartney, Paul’s brother.

SCAN - Photo by Dezo Hoffmann, 1963

SCAN - Andy Warhol screen-printed over four Dezo Hoffmann photos.

SCAN - The Beatles in Victorian bathing costumes on Brean Down beach in Weston-Super-Mare, 27 July 1963. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann.

Clearer version of this picture. Returning from US Kennedy Airport to London Heathrow, February 22, 1964. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann.

The Beatles photographed in London by Dezo Hoffmann, 2 July 1963

John in Victorian bathing costumes on Brean Down beach in Weston-Super-Mare, 27 July 1963. Photo by Dezo Hoffmann.

Dezo Hoffmann photoshoot, 1963

Dezo Hoffmann photoshoot, 1963

The Beatles photographed by Dezo Hoffmann at Forthlin Road, 25 March 1963