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Just a few steps away from where Paul McCartney performed a marathon rock show for his Got Back tour in Nashville on November 6, sits the Frist Art Museum that has become home to a special time capsule. The museum is hosting the touring exhibit Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm, which truly lives up to its name. It captures a whirlwind three months in the lives of those four lads from Liverpool. The Frist Art Museum presents Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm According to PEOPLE, the exhibit, which happened to open the same day as McCartney’s concert at the Pinnacle Theatre, showcases nearly 300 photographs from his personal collection. Taken between December 1963 and February 1964, the images capture the Beatles’ first trip to Paris and their debut journey to the United States. The exhibit will take longtime fans on a nostalgic trip back to the days of the Beatles’ iconic 1964 Ed Sullivan Show performances, but this time, through an entirely new lens. Younger fans will also get a glimpse of how pop culture was evolving during that era. At the start of the exhibit, the Beatles are still uncertain about their future. But at the end, the whole world knows the names John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. finally got to see my paul’s eyes of the storm exhibit in nashville ❤️ PAUL I LOVE YOU FOREVER BROOO It’s hard to imagine what they were really like at the time, especially Harrison, who wasn’t even 21 yet. But these photos capture a group of young men just beginning to understand what fame truly means. They’re still figuring out how they want to be seen by the world. In many of the pictures, Lennon can be spotted wearing his thick-framed glasses, which he avoided in public until the Beatles had firmly established their place in music history. McCartney himself hadn’t looked at these photos in years. While curating an exhibition of photographs by his late wife, Linda McCartney, he recalled that he had also taken pictures during the Beatles’ early days. His archive team began searching for them, and soon after, the National Portrait Gallery in London showed interest in displaying the collection. Initially, the plan was to display only a selection of the best photos, but as National Portrait Gallery senior curator Rosie Broadley told reporters at the Frist, the collection’s intimate and revealing nature made it impossible to leave any. National Portrait Gallery’s senior curator Rosie Broadley Says, “It’s Just For Paul” Broadley said as per the news portal, “When we saw this wealth of material, we can see that there was more there and actually seeing the ones that weren’t the most perfect version of the ones that were just them hanging out having tea. It was something you didn’t get with any other photographer because they’re not smiling for the camera. It’s not for the press, it’s not for the cover of a magazine or an album. It’s just for Paul.” Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm, organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, will be displayed at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville until January 26, 2026. Its next North American stop is at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in February 2026.
