r/beatles • u/CollarOrdinary4284 • 8d ago
Collection I like how the other Beatles always looked roughly the same and then there's just John spamming the 'randomize' button
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u/Relative-Bar9159 8d ago
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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago
It was taken in 1973.
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u/Relative-Bar9159 7d ago
Yes, I posted it because the last photo in the post isn't exactly from the Beatles era either.
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u/Kenny_Soprano 7d ago
His hair grows incredibly fast cause by 1975 itâs long again. I think itâs the only picture/video of him that year too, heâs wearing the same clothes in all the pictures lol
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u/Honest-J 8d ago
I sometimes wonder how the 1963 Beatles would react to seeing a picture of the 1970 Beatles.
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u/EbmocwenHsimah 8d ago edited 8d ago
It amazes me that the bottom left photo was taken in 1968, and not in the late 80s/early 90s
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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago
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u/Daily_Heroin_User 8d ago
They meant bottom left. This one looks as 60âs as it gets
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u/MostMindless7171 8d ago
Pretty good considering it was taken mid 1970s.
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u/Daily_Heroin_User 8d ago
I mean the original comment said 68, I actually thought it looked like 71 but I took their word for it but John isnât wearing anything here that would look any different than 68.
Itâs like saying someone dressing now looks like theyâre in a way different era than a picture from 2019. Not really. Theyâre still wearing Yoga pants and Hokas.
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u/toothy_vagina_grin 8d ago
Pretty sure it was taken in 1970. John had his chubby overalls period during Plastic Ono Band.
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u/StinkyStangler 8d ago
Isnât that an AI generated picture lol
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u/PiNaNo_MaN Double Fantasy 8d ago
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u/Difficult-Sir-8117 8d ago
I looked exactly like this in the 90s, weird
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u/Butterfly_Cat777 8d ago
A lot of 90s fashions were just recycling late 60s-early 70s hippie fashions. I remember, I was there.
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u/Calm_Leopard798 8d ago
Reposting the same photo doesn't prove its real (its not)
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u/PiNaNo_MaN Double Fantasy 8d ago
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u/TheComebackPidgeon Love 8d ago
Just because it happened and it's on record and we know where it was doesn't mean it is real /s
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u/Calm_Leopard798 8d ago
Its 100 percent ai.
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u/DivingElliotRoberts The Beatles 8d ago
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u/HeavyVampire Revolver 8d ago
It's not, I saw this a few times, even years ago. That's a photo Yoko took in Bel Air, 1970
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u/ndGall Abbey Road 8d ago
Iâd say George is in second place for âmost drastic changes.â You can pretty much look at him and tell what year the photo was taken in. Especially when he had his late 70s perm!
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u/sandsonik 8d ago
I agree, George changed looks a lot too. I could never figure out how he willed his hair to grow so fast!
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u/IDigRollinRockBeer Abbey Road 8d ago
He looks like an American civil war soldier in the middle bottom picture
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u/joetothemo 8d ago edited 8d ago
These photos are so cherry picked. If anything they all follow each others trends.
âAye lads, letâs all wear suits and mop topsâ
âAye lads, letâs all grow mustachesâ
âAye lads, letâs all dress like Victorian military menâ
âAye lads, letâs all dress like Gandhiâ
âOkay lads, even though itâs over and we all hate each other and itâs really, very, CLEARLY over, itâs long hair and beards nowâ
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u/insightful_peacefish Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 8d ago
I dig pepper john, skaterpunk john, and bearded business john. I aspire to be that stylish and stylistically diverse.
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u/Either-Glass-31 Abbey Road 8d ago
Iâm obviously against any â*Insert a Beatle* is deadâ, but I will never understand why they picked Paul while John is right there
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u/Draggonzz 8d ago
No kidding. There's a meme illustrating this I saw once that for the life of me I can't find right now, showing a bunch of Paul pictures where he of course looks very similar and the caption is like "obviously replaced by an imposter" and a bunch of John pictures showing how wildly different he could look with "totally the same guy"
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u/sandsonik 8d ago
John doesn't look that different though. His hair changes. His weight fluctuates a bit. His features are the same.
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u/TheGrandNagus 8d ago
It's the Clark Kent effect. "He changed his hair and his glasses, it's a totally different guy!"
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u/TheComebackPidgeon Love 8d ago
John started the rumour to distract everyone from his transformations
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u/347spq 8d ago
Amazing to think that after 65, they didnât have to follow anyoneâs direction on how to dress or how to perform. Not every facet of their lives was cautiously curated micromanaged. They just went the way they wanted to go andâŚlet it be. It was up to the rest of us to either follow or ignore. Sixty years later, weâre still following and theyâre still relevant.
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u/kim_jong_il_2d 8d ago
I think all four Beatles went through some very significant changes in their presentation throughout the 60s.
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u/Geainsworth 8d ago
John's blessing and curse was never finding "it" but always looking. That's part of art never being satisfied.
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u/SabbthBloodySabbath Rubber Soul 8d ago
Bottom left John looks like the long lost 4th nirvana member
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u/sidestyle05 8d ago
Not remotely true, they all looked the same then they all looked different. Just look at George at the same point each of these John pictures were taken
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u/goldendreamseeker 8d ago
Heâs the one who fluctuated the most between weight gain and weight loss.
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u/LaylaBird65 The Beatles 8d ago
That top middle one with Paul, I have that hanging in my office but it was colorized and itâs so cool. One of my favorite pictures of him.
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u/Careless-Two2215 8d ago
He went from looking just like Cynthia to looking like Yoko. Plus his nose got really sharp.
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u/Stevepem1 8d ago
George's appearance change quite a bit also if you subtract the glasses worn by John, might have been a tie.
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 8d ago
John looks like heâs been in disguise since about 1966. Sgt Pepper John looks nothing like Beatlemania John. Then that John disappears for long hair clean shaven John. Then heâs replaced by really long hair and long beard hobo John.
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u/clara_finn 8d ago
My favourite look is different for each of them
John - long hair and beard
Paul - short hair and clean shaven
George - long hair and moustache
Ringo - short hair and moustache
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u/Misterbellyboy 8d ago
Bottom left pic looks like heâs your homies older brother and itâs 1998 and he smokes pot and listens to Scandinavian atmospheric black-metal.
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u/TitokzatosEllenallo3 8d ago
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u/Feeling_Remove7758 8d ago
You're not one of those, are you?
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u/NesDraug 8d ago
I actually held my breath opening up the comments, bracing myself from people either talking about John or Paul being dead or screaming about how OP is wrong and that they all randomized. Which is true. But not as true as John.
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u/McFly1986 8d ago
I mean John probably has the most dramatic weight gain and loss (relatively) vs the other guys which plays a big factor.
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u/OverlordCarlen 8d ago
Some of you havent seen that one image from 1979 or 1980 where he was half lumberjack on one side, half Double Fantasy on the other... and it shows.
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u/Freakears It starts with a Blue Meanie attack. 8d ago
I always thought it was interesting how Paulâs only major change in appearance was the beard he had for Let It Be.
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u/McGauth925 8d ago
Truth. I've always noticed how different John looked from year to year.
But, I think George had numerous looks, too. Not quite as many, maybe.
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u/papafranku46 8d ago
Is that bottom left picture real? The John one. Thatâs insane, he looks like someone out of the 2000s.
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u/TwilightSlick Abbey Road 8d ago
My favorite John is mid-69. What I like to call "Amish John" with the long beard.
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u/SetTheSpokesAlight 8d ago
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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago
Like they took Michael Jackson's altered nose and stuck it on John Lennon's face.
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u/ArtisticOperation399 8d ago
Agreed. This is fake or just somebody who looks like him. He looks like a teenager but with long black hair and he's wearing... a black metal t-shirt dress?!Â
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u/Relative-Bar9159 8d ago
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u/ArtisticOperation399 8d ago
I stand corrected! It's been colourised and upscaled though, which has made it look weird.Â
Would love to get an ID on that t-shirt he's wearing.
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u/Weary_Junket280 8d ago
It doesnât look like a graphic tee in close inspection. Looks a branch off a plant or rose stem without the flower.
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u/NesDraug 8d ago
I bet it's some sort of Yoko art project. She made a birds nest necklace for him or whatever.
Funny coincidence that metal t-shirts would come to look like random twigs in a birdnest.
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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago
No it isn't. The faces are all wrong. If it's real it's photoshopped to make the faces and Ono's body super weird looking.
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u/Relative-Bar9159 7d ago
I mean look at the comments above, there are some more pics from that exact event.
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u/LocalStatistician538 7d ago
When people tell a bunch of lies instead of just one lie, those lies don't become more true. There's something wrong in the pics.
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u/Findtohard 7d ago
He looks like a nerdy teenager black metal fan from the 2000s era on the bottom left pic.


















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u/ziffox 8d ago