Richard Purden KLAUS Voormann first heard rock n’ roll being thrashed out by a five-piece group of leather-clad Liverpudlians in Hamburg in October, 1960. In a feral atmosphere of drunks, sailors and sex workers, where violence often erupted, the 22-year old was on edge when he entered a basement club in the city’s red-light district. He was soon drawn to a charismatic, mouthy frontman underneath a greasy quiff. “He was a cocky rocker,” says Voormann of the first time he spoke to John Lennon. “From then on it was like a world on fire. It was about art, movies, music. They were so open and it was difficult for us being German to understand. They would easily talk about their inner feelings. That was new to us. We were taking purple hearts [Dexamyl]) and talking so much it was unbelievable.”
All 141 George Harrison Solo Songs Ranked Worst to Best
George Harrison s music, much like the former Beatles star himself, tended toward both the uplifting and the downbeat. Often in one song.
He relished taking the fight to liars, thieves, the unprincipled, politicians, record-label execs and other such scoundrels. But he also celebrated the light that surrounds it all and never stopped searching for the most personal kind of inner peace.
That s why he was initially attracted to Phil Spector – a producer who couldn t fathom a record without a cast of thousands – but also a Beatles-loving imitator in Jeff Lynne. They represented both of Harrison s musical impulses, as his essential dichotomies played out on vinyl.
All 141 George Harrison Solo Songs Ranked Worst to Best
George Harrison s music, much like the former Beatles star himself, tended toward both the uplifting and the downbeat. Often in one song.
He relished taking the fight to liars, thieves, the unprincipled, politicians, record-label execs and other such scoundrels. But he also celebrated the light that surrounds it all and never stopped searching for the most personal kind of inner peace.
That s why he was initially attracted to Phil Spector – a producer who couldn t fathom a record without a cast of thousands – but also a Beatles-loving imitator in Jeff Lynne. They represented both of Harrison s musical impulses, as his essential dichotomies played out on vinyl.
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