Hamburg Days Author:Klaus Voormann, Astrid Kirchherr Hamburg Days presents The Beatles as seen through the photographs of Astrid Kirchherr and the art of Klaus Voormann – with a Foreword by George Harrison. Hamburg Days is Voormann and Kirchherr's memoir of the days they spent with The Beatles, 1960-63. Few can say they were the first to hear The Beatles play liv... more »e in the basement of the Kaiserkeller. In Hamburg's nightclubs small audiences rocked to The Beatles' raw sound long before it blazed a trail across the world. This book retells the history of those heady times. An array of newly-commissioned artworks and recollections – some 80,000 words and over 250 photographs, watercolours, drawings and paintings – bring to life the years when Kirchherr, Voormann and the young Liverpool lads first met. When not in the clubs, they would eat together in favourite haunts, engage in conversation, roam the streets through the early hours, and travel together, to the North Sea and later, Tenerife. In his Foreword George Harrison tells what made these formative years so special: a time Astrid photographed, producing an archive of unsurpassed images of The Beatles seen here in its entirety...
Klaus was part of a group of The Beatles' friends in Hamburg. Now he has made some 'memory drawings' of our Hamburg days which are not only beautiful drawings in themselves, but which capture the spirit of the times. The really good thing about Klaus, his drawings, and this book, however, is that - unlike many other people – he was actually there! – Paul McCartney« less