Stuart Sutcliffe was a member of the Beatles when they were still known as the Quarrymen. He joined the band in 1960 as the bass guitarist when the group was performing in clubs around… Read More
Photographer Astrid Kirchherr – who helped The Beatles develop their iconic style and was the first to snap them on their 1960 Hamburg trip – has died aged 81. The German photogr… Read More
"I was just amazed how beautiful these boys looked. And being a photographer then, it was a photographer's dream," Kirchherr told NPR about the first time she saw the Beatles.(Image credit:… Read More
“Cindy 1” detail by KEELEY x GiIles Bensimon(Keeley Studios)New York-based artist Ryan Keeley is using his custom “Hybrid-Expressionist” process to remix images of Ma… Read More
Jurgen Vollmer captured these images of George Harrison with wind-blown, slicked back hair during and after a ferry ride on Hamburg Lake in Spring 1961. By this time, The Beatles had adopted… Read More
By Tom Zillich
1. John Lennon would be 80 years of age on Oct. 8 this year, had he not been gunned down in cold blood on a New York City street 40 years ago. In a birthday celebration for th… Read More
The Liverbirds “(pronounced lie-vah)…played the Cavern Club alongside the Beatles and were sent to the Reeperbahn in the early Sixties on the same promotional circuit. They neve… Read More
Say hello, hello to a stunning new book of photographs of the Fab Four themselves, shot by Astrid Kirchherr who according to none other than George Harrison, was “the one, really, who… Read More
In April 1963, just a few weeks before Beatlemania, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr took a holiday in Tenerife, Spain. It was the last time they would spend such carefree day… Read More
by Ross Chowles (@Kyffen) I recently did a One Show presentation on “How to Brainstorm” at the Art Directors Club Festival in Hamburg, Germany. Other guest presenters for these L… Read More