![]() ![]() They had just a few more weeks available to work on their new LP, the one which would be called Revolver, and then suddenly they were off on tour. They had a German tour coming up, and also a Japan tour. They were just happy by then that they were spending more time in the studio, in the control room, messing around with sounds, than they ever did before. “They were doing one album after another. “1966 was the time when the Beatles were really, really busy,” Voormann recalls. Photograph: K & K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns Klaus Voormann, left, with Astrid Kirchherr and original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe at a party in Hamburg, Germany, circa 1961. Voormann went on to spend much of the 60s and 70s alternating stints on the pop and rock circuit, playing bass with Manfred Mann, George Harrison and John Lennon – including on Lennon’s Imagine – with his work in graphic design and fine art. The look, especially the hair, heavily influenced the band’s early image. I went back there recently, the building is exactly the same.”Ī trained artist and musician, Voormann and his girlfriend, the photographer Astrid Kirchherr, were quintessential continental beatniks when they befriended the Beatles – sporting black clothes and a moody face beneath a low fringe. It was on the third floor of a house, in a little attic apartment, it was in the kitchen. “I remember, where I created the Revolver cover. “Things stay in my memory because people keep on asking me about that time,” Voormann, now 78 and based in his native Germany, told the Observer. England had just won the World Cup and London was swinging. Revolver, the Beatles’ seventh album, was released in the UK on 5 August 1966. Voormann’s graphic novel, Birth of an Icon: Revolver 50, opens with his first encounter with the group one night in 1960 in a Hamburg bar, the Kaiserkeller, and traces their metamorphosis in five years from leather-clad rockers to multimillionaire psychedelic potentates, the greatest band in the world. Klaus Voormann – veteran Beatles confidant, inventor of the mop-top haircut, and member of the group’s inner circle of friends since their formative years playing Hamburg bars and strip joints – has decided to tell the story of his relationship with the Fab Four not in words, but in pictures. “And to help youngsters going forward for scholarships, it’s a privilege for us to do this and hopefully coming back and playing for all our wonderful fans in Cincinnati will be a healing process for them and for us.Half a century after the release of Revolver, the Beatles album hailed not only as the group’s creative summit but arguably pop’s greatest achievement, the artist who designed the record’s monochrome sleeve – itself acclaimed as one of the finest pop artworks – has revealed how he did it: on a kitchen table in an attic flat, for £50. To come back here after 42-years-plus and hopefully help with the healing process with the community. ![]() The Who’s manager Bill Curbishley said: “This is a very moving situation. I’m very excited about the fact that we leave behind a legacy for Cincinnati." He added: “We’re now playing in an even larger venue, which obviously will raise more revenue. It’s about time, it’s taken a long time I know but it’s the least we can do in our final years to say thank you to Cincinnati because it’s a great rock town. Roger Daltrey told WCPO-TV: “I can’t wait to be there. As part of their 2022 North American tour, yesterday The Who announced a gig at the 26,000 TQL Stadium in Cincinnati and proceeds will benefit The P.E.M. ![]()
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