London (ANI)- Original pictures of the The Beatles were lost forever after they were accidentally chucked in the trash.
The iconic 1963 pictures - used on the cover of the Fab Four's first official album Please Please Me - were stored in two boxes at an EMI base.
But although they were marked Not Rubbish - Do Not Remove, a cleaner allegedly admitted binning them, reports the Sun.
Now EMI and Apple Corps bosses are suing the cleaner's firm for £700,000, claiming they were negligent, failed to follow instructions, failed to take reasonable care and failed to properly train or supervise their employee.
The photos - showing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr leaning over a staircase at EMI's office in Manchester Square, London - were also used on the covers of The Beatles EP and the 1973 compilation Red Album.
They were among more than 450 transparencies and negatives kept at EMI's Brook Green base in West London.
The seven Beatles snaps had been taken by late photographer Angus McBean.
It says: "The Beatles transparencies were the only original material from the photography from this session and were historically important and valuable." Crystal allegedly fired the female cleaner.
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