Robert Freeman - Beatles favorite photographer

Photographer, designer, and cameraman Robert Freeman is most famous for photographing and designing five of the Beatles album covers, in addition to some other tasks he carried out on their behalf. After graduating from Cambridge in 1959, he became a professional photographer, with assignments for The Sunday Times and other magazines. One of his assignments was photographing jazz musicians at a London jazz festival, which led to a portfolio including portraits of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvin Jones, and Coleman Hawkins. These were the photos he sent to Beatles manager Brian Epstein in the summer of 1963, after a friend who had filmed the group for Granada Television tipped Freeman off that the Beatles would make good photographic subjects. He was a photographer for  Pirelli calendar in 1964...

In the 1960s, Freeman was married to a German-born model - known at the time as Sonny Freeman, with whom he had two children. He was later married to author Tiddy Rowan with whom he had a daughter. There was a romor that Freemans wife,Sonny Drane (a model and 1964 Pirelli calendar-girl), had a year-lon had a affair with John Lennon


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