How funny....I always found the second one from left to be a nice girl to look at.....
Cheers Moz
These are not boys or boys in drag! They are 100% females girls from right to left and left to right from the early 60's!
It is part of four fab Beatles fans taken by Jurgen Vollmer in the early 60′s. The photo is in his book “Rock ‘n’ Roll Times: The Style and Spirit of the Early Beatles and Their First Fans” which was published in September 1983, and is on the back cover of The Smiths The World Won’t Listen album along with the photo he took of the front cover. The front cover and back cover were Beatles fans taken in Hamburg Germany in the early 60's by Vollmer. I mean they don't even look like guys.
For 'The World Won't Listen', images were taken from Jurgen Vollmer's 1981 collection of images taken in Hamburg and Paris between 1961 and 1964, Rock 'N' Roll Times: The Style And Spirit Of The Early Beatles And Their First Fans. Encompassing the equivocal love of fairgrounds The Smiths explored on 'Rusholme Ruffians', it's from a time when pop was young and passions repressed.
But Marr did explain the idea behind The Smiths Album The World won't Listen cover art as a representation of how Beatles fans and Smiths fans were paralleled in the images of these early Beatles fans, as a representation of Smiths fans and the band at the time, in this quote he explains how it was never discussed that this was the reason, but it was understood:
"It represents the band to me," says Marr. "On the front you've got four guys who look like, if not the band, then Smiths fans. On the back you've got the female side of it - individually they really look like the Smiths: Morrissey on the far right, me on the second right, Andy [Rourke, bass] on the second left and Mike [Joyce, drums] on the far left. To find a picture like that is really clever. We didn't discuss it, but I understood."
He also clears up any silly rumour of this being guys in drag (which it is clearly common knowledge it's real girls before this comment anyway) as he also says the female side of it, but is only meant as a representation of a cleaver female take of a The Smiths in the early 60's being females or the strangeness of how eerie and cleaver the similarities are, not to represent them in drag, as they are not really The Smiths obviously, but more perhaps ghosts of them, as it is haunting to think they were or actually could have been all females in another life before The Smiths and were friends in the early 60's lol, as this is how I see it as opposed to them in Drag, as it isn't actually them back then now is it?