Ringo Finds Star Of His 50-Year-Old Photograph

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has published a new book, Photograph, featuring pictures he has taken throughout his life. But this photo from 1964, the height of Beatlemania, generated an immense amount of interest when Starr wondered aloud who it was he had captured on film.

Now, 67-year-old Gary Van Duersen has come forward to say it was his friends and he. Van Duersen explains that his group had gone to JFK airport to try to catch a glimpse of the mop topped sensations. On the way home they spotted the Beatles limos and when Starr saw them he motioned for them to open their window and snapped the now-famous photograph.

‘As we were driving home, back across George Washington bridge a limousine passed us, then another, then another, then another and we realised it was The Beatles each in a separate limo.

‘I crossed over lanes and overtook so they would all pass us again. The last one had Ringo Starr in it and the reporter from TIME magazine – though we didn’t know that then.

‘Ringo gestured to us to wind down the window so we did. He asked where we were from and one of the kids in the car held up his jacket with the school name on it because it was hard to hear Fair Lawn.

By: Mark Quincy Adams

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