George Harrison ‘The Third Eye – Early Photographs’

There’s an out-of-reach-for-most-of-us Deluxe Edition coming on 26 October:

It is a cloth-bound book that comes in a clamshell box and has four fine art prints, a 5×7″ letterpress print signed and numbered by Olivia Harrison, and a vinyl single with a previously unreleased George track of him covering a 1950’s Eartha Kitt song called ‘Apres Moi’:

Why ‘Apre Moi’, and why Eartha Kitt? Instgrammer @innerlightpodcast explains:

Anyhow, for the rest of us it’s most probably going to be the standard edition at around US$65.00….which is due for release on October 6. It really does look to contain some special images – all taken by George:

He Photographed Paul McCartney – and Upset the Beatle

When you see an iconic image like this one it is often fascinating to hear the backstory as to how it came about.

Photographer Chris Floyd has a fantastic tale to tell about working with Paul McCartney and the process of capturing an image of him for the ages:

If Floyd’s photographs looks familiar, that’s because another from that same shoot eventually made it’s way (some 12 years later via Paul’s own company MPL) onto the cover of Paul Du Noyer’s 2015 book, Conversations With McCartney:

As well as the YouTube above, Chris Floyd has written in detail about the session too, both in his book Not Just Pictures, and also at his substack.com page. His article there is well worth a read. It’s got some great additional information and images, plus two very surprising postscripts which add delightful new elements to the tale!