Beatles' iconic Mini Coopers reunited in London

(27 Feb 2023)

UK BEATLES CARS

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London, UK - 24 February 2023

1. Pan right of the three Beatles Mini Coopers (Paul McCartney's screen left, George Harrison's screen centre, Ringo Starr's screen right)
2. Various of George Harrison's Cooper
3. Low angle of Harrison's Cooper (screen right) and Paul McCartney's Cooper (screen left)
4. Various set up shots of Kieron Maughan, blogger, Rockstars Cars, photographing Ringo Starr's Cooper
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kieron Maughan, blogger, Rockstars Cars:
"The Beatles were big car fans. I mean, fundamentally, they had between '63 and '69 they had 15 Minis. That's a huge amount of Minis. They also had Minis to be incognito. So they had plain Minis as well as these mad Radford Minis. So if you want to be incognito in London, you drive a normal Mini or you drive like an Austin 1100, a few of them had those. But you wouldn't have a massively big flashy car if you wanted to slip out of a nightclub into a car and disappear quietly."

6. Timelapse zoom of crowds gathering around the Beatles' cars
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kieron Maughan, blogger, Rockstars Cars:
"I think it was the fact they were in London. You could drive around London in those days. You could go from one side of London to the other in half an hour. Can't now. So they were great city cars. They were luxurious. They were great to drive. And they were much more subtle than John Lennon's white Rolls-Royce, for example, or the psychedelic Phantom."

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8. Various of John Lennon's Phantom V

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London, UK - 24 February 2023

9. Various of Charlie Cooper, grandson of John Cooper, being interviewed on stage at the London Classic Car Show
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Cooper, grandson of John Cooper:
"I think it's the spirit of an underdog a little bit. In racing, it was always the underdog, no one expected it. And then it appealed to the actual car, the Mini, appealed to so many different types of people from the Beatles to race drivers to the average person. I think it was a car that just transcended different eras, different classes and different people."

11. Various of Ringo Starr's Cooper
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Cooper, grandson of John Cooper:
"My grandfather was obviously involved in Formula One and racing through the 1960s, there was a golden era of racing, as some people say. There was definitely kind of celebrities round, the family house. My father tells me stories about people like The Beatles, but also Steve McQueen sort of staying in the family house. It was definitely a rock star kind of era of famous people with the Cooper family."

13. Side view of Ringo Starr's Cooper
14. Side view of Paul McCartney's Cooper
15. Pull focus across headlights of the three Coopers
16. Various set up shots of Steve Burkinshaw, Mini restorer, looking at the McCartney Cooper he restored
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Burkinshaw, Mini restorer:
"Paul McCartney's is the oldest car. That's the 1965 Austin Cooper S that was the first type of Radford where they did what they call the original speedometer, what they call the Binnacle dashboard. The simplest form of coach-built Mini is the green one behind us. "

18. Detail shot of custom wheel on McCartney's Cooper
19. Rear three quarters of McCartney's Cooper
20. Side view of Harrison's Cooper
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Burkinshaw, Mini restorer

22. Wide of Mini Cooper's in show hall
23. Various of Ferrari F12 TdF at London Classic Car Show
24. Pan across Ferrari


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