George Harrison and Pattie Boyd's honeymoon, Barbados, 1966 | The Big Picture

This image of Beatle George Harrison and his first wife stands at odds with the final photograph of his bandmate John LennonPhotographs can arrest waves before they crash on the shore: they have the power to extract moments from the flow of time. Hence the attraction of happy snaps such as this one, which presents a honeymoon as the prolongation of playful childhood, not the start of adult life. It is a reminder of how infectiously boyish the Beatles were, before their protests against the Vietn...

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