On 28 July 1968 the Beatles, instead of working in the studio, staged a spontaneous shoot at various places around the city, with no script, no route and hardly any preparation

On 28 July 1968 the Beatles, instead of working in the studio, staged a spontaneous shoot at various places around the city, with no script, no route and hardly any preparation. The aim was to recover from the gruelling recording of their ninth album and at last to document new images, sharply different from those captured in formal sessions. They simply loafed about interesting and odd places, larked around and improvised. The day came to be remembered as the Mad Day Out, and it gave the press a great many vivid, energetic pictures.