As a young seventeen year old starting out to fulfil his dream of being a photographer, Tom Hanley never anticipated that the road ahead would be filled with great musical icons. In his twenties he travelled around Britain as a staff photographer for John Bull magazine, which became the widely read Today publication. He quickly discovered that “there’s no show businesslike show business”
Tom was with The Beatles right at the beginning of their meteoric rise to fame and became good friends with the members of the most famous band in the world. Tom worked closely with them in the 1960’s and 1970’s and as you will see from many of his photos was often present when the band were ‘off duty’ behind closed doors. He was with them when they wrote some of the songs that are so well known to us all and even sat with three of the band as they planned a break away group towards the end of their career. ‘With a Little Help from My Lens’ tells the story of his time with the ‘Fab Four’ in his own words.