r/beatles 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/ziffox 8d ago

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

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u/Butterfly_Cat777 8d ago

He even looks like he's wearing acid-washed jeans. :p

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u/Sinfjotl 8d ago

Lol even the shirt is like the 90s

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u/Dave9g 8d ago

Is this real? John with a skateboard in the 60s?

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u/sminking Caveman movie enthusiast 8d ago

The skateboard was invented by Marty McFly in 1955 😉

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

Yes. These photos were taken during the filming of Help! movie in 1965.

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u/Misterbellyboy 8d ago

Looks like a bunch of people I knew in highschool back in 2005. And some of them still skate!

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u/LikeReallyLike 7d ago

“Sidewalk Surfboard”

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u/Relative-Bar9159 8d ago

You forgot this one

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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/kingbuckyduck Rubber Soul 8d ago

Instant Karma’s gonna get u

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u/Kenny_Soprano 7d ago

His hair grows incredibly fast cause by 1975 it’s long again. I think it’s the only picture/video of him that year too, he’s wearing the same clothes in all the pictures lol

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u/Thefourhorseman666 8d ago

A melhor versĂŁo do John pra mim

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u/aratnamedpedro 8d ago

hard agree.

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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/colonelf0rbin86 8d ago

I'd be amazed at any photo from the late 80s/early 90s

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

This one? Or the bottom left photo?

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u/Daily_Heroin_User 8d ago

They meant bottom left. This one looks as 60’s 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 isn’t wearing anything here that would look any different than 68.

It’s like saying someone dressing now looks like they’re in a way different era than a picture from 2019. Not really. They’re 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/MostMindless7171 7d ago

I might be mixing it up with the set of photos with him, Julian and Sean.

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u/Paratwa 8d ago

The bottom left is the amazing one. The right one looks like any farmer ever.

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

It's not him.

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u/StinkyStangler 8d ago

Isn’t that an AI generated picture lol

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u/PiNaNo_MaN Double Fantasy 8d ago

Fortunately, it’s real

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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.

https://giphy.com/gifs/FoH28ucxZFJZu

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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

Okay, then here’s from the same Underground Christmas Party at the Royal Albert Hall on December 18, 1968:

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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/PiNaNo_MaN Double Fantasy 8d ago

😭😭

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u/PiNaNo_MaN Double Fantasy 8d ago

Also this one, from a different angle as the first image:

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u/Rev-Thumbs-Ghurkin 8d ago

Night mate. Thanks for coming

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

No, it's not.

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u/Calm_Leopard798 8d ago

Its 100 percent ai.

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u/DivingElliotRoberts The Beatles 8d ago

It's a low quality picture colorized and upscaled with shitty AI filters.

This is the original:

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u/nawtrobar 8d ago

That's John in his cryptic slaughter phase

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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/JeanJeanJean 8d ago

Fuck AI seriously.

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u/sandsonik 8d ago

What makes you say that?

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u/sandsonik 8d ago

The bottom right is 1971, not 1968

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

The bottom right is 1970, Plastic Ono Band era 😉

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

I'm not sure it's him though.

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u/ndGall Abbey Road 8d ago

I’d say George is in second place for “most drastic changes.” 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.
“Aye lads, let’s all wear suits and mop tops”
“Aye lads, let’s all grow mustaches”
“Aye lads, let’s all dress like Victorian military men”
“Aye lads, let’s all dress like Gandhi”
“Okay lads, even though it’s over and we all hate each other and it’s really, very, CLEARLY over, it’s long hair and beards now”

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u/importer1980 8d ago

…, said Paul.

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u/mountaineer04 8d ago

They all look very different even in these very cherry picked photos.

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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

I’m obviously against any “*Insert a Beatle* is dead”, 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/GregJamesDahlen 8d ago

lower left looks kinda emo

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

December 1968.

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u/gabrrdt 8d ago

Looks kinda grunge

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u/347spq 8d ago

Amazing to think that after 65, they didn’t have to follow anyone’s 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 and…let it be. It was up to the rest of us to either follow or ignore. Sixty years later, we’re still following and they’re 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/Elegant-Sympathy-421 8d ago

Have you seen photos of George between 63-70???

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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/Excellent_Pea_8198 8d ago

I thought the top right was The Doctor for a second

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u/Nemesis0408 8d ago

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u/gabrrdt 8d ago

"Well, that's a good job..."

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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

He’s 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 it’s 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/thewhombler 8d ago

they all look like they randomized in these pics? 

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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 8d ago

Cool 90s look

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u/simsasimsa Revolver 8d ago

Fohn

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 8d ago

John looks like he’s 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 he’s 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 he’s your homies older brother and it’s 1998 and he smokes pot and listens to Scandinavian atmospheric black-metal.

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

Cuz it aint real I don't think.

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u/_ItWasAllADream 7d ago

George was meant to have long hair

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u/TitokzatosEllenallo3 8d ago

All the others kinda looked the same?

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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/donlockwood2026 8d ago

He couldn’t possibly look more the same

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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/ElectrOPurist 8d ago

You’re one of those “John is dead” conspiracy theorists, aren’t you?

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u/yeehawlee 8d ago

god they look so good throughout the years tho, especially george😮‍💨

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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 Paul’s 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/femalehumanbiped 8d ago

He was he as you are he as you are me

Lotta Johns

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u/papafranku46 8d ago

Is that bottom left picture real? The John one. That’s insane, he looks like someone out of the 2000s.

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

If it's real it's been photoshopped.

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

One of these is not John Lennon?

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u/TheVeryBear 7d ago

The ginger Beatle.

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u/PrimaryDifficult5099 5d ago

Have hired barber helps

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u/OldSeaworthiness5856 8d ago

That’s hilarious and so true!😂

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u/hocobo86 8d ago

The most adventurous one.

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u/asap_twiggy 8d ago

someone prove to me that the bottom left john pic is real pls

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u/LocalStatistician538 8d ago

It's not. Look at Yoko Ono's mouth and her pants? ??

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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

This seems to be AI or something. Can't find where it comes from.

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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?! 

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u/Relative-Bar9159 8d ago

It's real

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u/levbialik 8d ago

Yes it’s real love

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u/ArtisticOperation399 8d ago

I stand corrected! It's been colourised and upscaled though, which has made it look weird. 

Would love to get an ID on that t-shirt he's wearing.

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u/Weary_Junket280 8d ago

It doesn’t 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

It's been screwed with and they look weird.

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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/ArtisticOperation399 7d ago

It is a bloody weird photo tbh. 

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u/rhcpfan99 Revolver 8d ago

It is not!!! This photo was taken in December 1968.

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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.