Harry Benson photographed John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison getting punched by Muhammad Ali known as 'The Greatest.'
The Beatles weren’t eager to come together with 'The Greatest.' It was 1964 when photographer Harry Benson took the Fab Four to meet Muhammad Ali. At the time, the fighter was preparing to go toe-to-toe against Sonny Liston while the band was gearing up to appear on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' The photographer is celebrating the 60th anniversary of his snapshots from the band’s tour.
When you photograph Muhammad Ali, you always get something interesting,' Benson chuckled to Fox News Digital. 'Ali told them, ‘Your music is not that good.’ Let’s just say they didn’t particularly like that. And then the Beatles said, ‘We hear you’re not that good as a boxer.’' 'They still laughed about it, but it wasn’t a match made in heaven,' Benson added.
Ali died in 2016 at age 74. At the time, McCartney, now 81, wrote, 'I loved that man. He was great from the first day we met him in Miami... He was a beautiful, gentle man with a great sense of humour.' One of Benson’s favorite memories of the Beatles was being on their plane as they traveled to America. The group touched down that year at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport to thousands of screaming girls.
remember they were all in the hotel room just eating, with all this chaos happening outside,' said Benson. 'I remember I said, ‘I need a picture.’ So at first, they just hung around and ate, until John slipped away. He then comes up behind Paul, hits his head with a pillow and, before you know it, pillow fight! It must have gone on all night.' 'Thank goodness I got some shots,' Benson continued. 'I got movement. That’s what photographers look for, movement.
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