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VINTAGE BEATLES PHOTOS SURFACE IN PHOTOGS' ATTIC

6/13/2012

A long-lost set of Beatles photos taken by a teenage schoolboy in 1963 have surfaced in England. The 12 images come from an April 25 performance in Croydon, just a month before the release of the group's debut album, "Please Please Me," and were shot by Andy Wright, who was 15 at the time. Wright told the Croydon Guardian that he had forgotten about the photos until he recently found them in his attic. Some of the shots are from the show itself, while Wright was able to get one photo of the Beatles together backstage. "I only had 12 pictures on my roll of film," Wright recalled. "The picture of all four of them backstage, potentially the most financially lucrative, was taken with the last shot I had. I went home on the bus, developed the pictures and proudly took them into the school the next day. I still have the Rollei camera I took those pictures with." There's no word yet on what Wright plans to do with the photos.

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