When the Beatles performed in Seattle on the third stop of their first official world tour, nineteen-year-old Timothy Eagan and his camera had an enviable view of the band from the edge of the stage. Eagan, who grew up in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, had gotten a press pass from a family friend, and had elbowed his way to the floor by the time the Beatles started the first song of their 29-minute set. Eagan went on to a career in photography, first as a staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and then with an agency in New York. In this photograph, Paul McCartney and George Harrison bow to the packed house at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Their so-called "mop-top" haircuts make it difficult to distinguish one Beatle from another in this position. At an press interview immediately preceding the concert, the Beatles were asked about their imitators. Paul responds: "It may look to you as though they're imitating, you know, but they're quite different, really. They're just, you know." People have just got long hair in England now. But it's." They're not imitating us. They had long hair before us, 'specially in prehistoric days."

Caption information source: Beatles press conference transcript at http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1964.0822.beatles.html