Kirchherr was liked and trusted by all of them, and her photographs captured a group still more interested in looking cool and “tough” than in being lovable. (Best was replaced in 1962 by Ringo Starr, and McCartney moved over to bass when Sutcliffe left and became engaged to Kirchherr). The James Dean lookalike Pete Best was the Beatles’ drummer, and Paul McCartney was playing guitar, along with Lennon and George Harrison. The rock group favored black leather and greased back hair and gave wild, marathon performances. The Beatles in the early 1960s were nothing like the smiling superstars the world would soon know, and they seemed to have little in common with Kirchherr and her friends, young existentialists dubbed “Exies” by John Lennon.
So I learned a lot from him and because in the ’60s we had a very strange attitude towards being young, towards sex, towards everything.” “You know as far as intelligent and artistic feelings are concerned, he was miles ahead. “Stuart was a very special person and he was miles ahead of everybody,” she told NPR in 2010. They quickly fell in love, even though she spoke little English and he knew little German. Kirchherr had dreamed of photographing “charismatic” men and found her ideal subjects in the Beatles, especially their bassist at the time, Stuart Sutcliffe, a gifted painter. All I wanted was to be with them and to know them.” “My whole life changed in a couple of minutes. “It was like a merry-go-round in my head, they looked absolutely astonishing,” Kirchherr later told Beatles biographer Bob Spitz. As she later recalled, Voormann then spent the next few days convincing Kirchherr to join him, a decision which profoundly changed her. Kirchherr was a photographer’s assistant in Hamburg and part of the local art scene in 1960 when her then-boyfriend Klaus Voormann dropped in at a seedy club, the Kaiserkeller, and found himself mesmerized by a young British rock group: The five raw musicians from Liverpool had recently named themselves the Beatles. Olivia #AstridKirchherr /5Dt7OmuGS8 - George Harrison May 15, 2020 I am truly saddened but honoured to have known her. Our family loved her and none more than George. Octopus’s Garden may not put Ringo into the songwriters hall of fame, but his drumming helped to shape countless Beatles classics, bringing personality and life to them.Astrid is and was the sweetest woman, so thoughtful and kind and talented, with an eye to capture a soul. He didn’t write the songs and he wasn’t a studio genius like producer George Martin, who helped to mould Lennon, McCartney and Harrison’s tunes into something spectacular. His drumming here is not complicated but – as numerous live versions of the song attest – it is lethally exact with not a note out of place, giving the lie to the notion, repeated by John Lennon in a 1980 Playboy interview, that Ringo was “not technically good” as a drummer.Īnother criticism of Ringo is that he wasn’t a creative god like the other Beatles. On Can’t Buy Me Love, Ringo’s drumming is the primal force that drives the song’s hormonal energy, all whipcrack snare and floor-tom bombast, wrapped up in Ringo’s signature sound: a wall-of-sound hi-hat thrash that sounds like five drummers at once.
Ringo’s brief introductory tom roll is the shot of adrenaline that gets the heart of the song thumping it is teen mania in sound, and one of the most important drum rolls in recorded music history. Take She Loves You, the song that kicked off Beatlemania. These are beats designed to enhance the song rather than show off the drummer’s abilities. What this means is that many of Ringo’s best performances go unnoticed.
“Is it someone that’s technically proficient? Or is it someone that sits in the song with their own feel? Ringo was the king of feel.” “Define ‘best drummer in the world’,” Dave Grohl said in a tribute video for Starr’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame presentation. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
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