The Beatles fine art print featuring my pencil portrait of drummer Ringo Starr in a top hat. A great gift for any Beatles fan, for Dad - or for anyone who needs a winking reminder that it is going to be a good day.

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The top spot on every Beatles fan's wish list is the same:

A time machine. Back to the rooftop concert. Back to Shea Stadium. Back to Woolton church garden fête.

The Beatles kept reinventing themselves throughout their career. Every moment of the 1960s, their music, outlook, and style were ahead of everybody else's. With all these constant transformations, not least musically, you would think the band would lose fans along the way.

Quite the contrary. 50 years after they broke up, they are still on everybody's lips. The many changes they went through mean that - perhaps unconsciously - you compare and try to pick out your favourite Beatles year, an album, a set of outfits, even hairstyles that you prefer over the rest.

I think their music is absolutely fantastic from Love Me Do until The End (and Her Majesty). However, their personalities are a major driving force behind my Beatles fascination.

My connection to the hopeful Liverpool boys with a rock 'n' roll dream and the four young lads who went out to conquer the world up until the middle of 1966 is remarkably stronger than that with the four men on the Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road covers.

That is why most of my Beatles portraits are from the first half of the sixties. From a time when, to me, they were still unspoiled by fame, seemingly carefree, still eager to conquer the world.

What I hope to capture with my portraits is a long-gone moment in time, when John, Paul, George, and Ringo were still the world's four best friends. Because that's what I wish I could have experienced. My art prints are my time machine. Hopefully, they will take you back to exactly where you want to be.

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