As the Beatles were eternally late to bed, this tells us that after playing their concerts at the Budo Kan, and being zipped back to their hotel with pin-sharp punctuality, they’d have reapplied themselves to their task. After that they worked in oils and watercolors, and Whitaker recalled that the finished work was completed over two nights. The bristles of a handsome new wooden-handled brush have been dipped in the pigment, perhaps for the first task to be done (likely a collective decision), giving the entire thing a red background wash. Working under the illuminated bulb, each man began to create from his corner and slowly work up towards the middle.Īnother Whitaker photo shows a paint palette of 21 compartments, a tube of vermilion squished to spout its vivid redness. The chairs corresponded more or less with the four corners, and they placed a table lamp roughly in the center, both to weigh down the paper and light it. Whitaker’s vibrant color photos set the scene for the painting - the Beatles arranged in four chairs around a table, on which they laid out a substantial rectangular sheet of fine Japanese art paper. With his insider status, Whitaker traveled with the Beatles through their summer 1966 concert tour that took in West Germany, Japan and the Philippines, with also an unscheduled typhoon-avoiding stop in Alaska. Among the other talented people he represented was a photographer, Robert Whitaker. The Beatles looked around for things to do and found them, and they received visitors, many of whom came bearing gifts - one bringing a top-quality set of art materials.īrian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, was always smart. But really they stayed in the suite most of the 100 hours, and passed the time with little pain. Paul slipped out for a fleeting early-morning peep at the Imperial Palace with Mal Evans and John ventured on to some nearby streets with Neil Aspinall. Actually, they managed two great escapes. They were whisked between the hotel and the Budo Kan Hall, where they played five concerts, with ultra-crisp security, no risk being taken about absolutely anything at all.Įqually, every generous thought was given to making the Beatles feel comfortable and content in their luxurious hotel suite, so they’d have no hankering to go anywhere. Japanese authorities decided to ensure their safety with a degree of pride which, in the Beatles’ minds, bordered on fanatical, every detail of their timetable tidied to the micro-minute. For close on three years, they had evoked fantastic scenes of adulation everywhere they appeared, some of the situations downright dangerous. The setting is Room 1005 of Tokyo’s Hilton Hotel, the Presidential Suite, an opulent and lavish jail for the Beatles for most of the 100 hours they spent in Japan from 29 June to 3 July 1966. They put their special stamp of quality over all things – and this includes a large colorful painting they made in a Tokyo hotel room, an untitled artwork that became known as Images Of A Woman. They wrote iconic songs which they sang and played in revolutionary and absurdly huge-selling recordings, they played concerts and tours, they made full-length films and short films, they did TV and radio, they generated books, drawings and photos, and they changed the way people looked, dressed, thought and spoke, altering attitudes and brokering positive possibilities.
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