Astrid Kirchherr, photographer of the Beatles, dead at 81
Source: AP
By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer who shot some of the earliest and most striking images of the Beatles and helped shape their trend-setting visual style, has died at age 81.
She died Tuesday in her native Hamburg, days before her 82nd birthday, her friend Kai-Uwe Franz told The Associated Press. Her death was first announced by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, who tweeted Friday that Kirchherr made an immeasurable contribution to the group and was intelligent, inspirational, innovative, daring, artistic, awake, aware, beautiful, smart, loving and uplifting. According to the German publication Die Zeit, she died of a short, serious illness.
Kirchherr was a photographers 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. As she later recalled, Voormann then spent the next few days convincing Kirchherr to join him, a decision which profoundly changed her.
It was like a merry-go-round in my head, they looked absolutely astonishing, Kirchherr later told Beatles biographer Bob Spitz. My whole life changed in a couple of minutes. All I wanted was to be with them and to know them.
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(51,615 posts)Klaus Voorman drew the Revolver album cover and she dated one of the Beatles' original guitarists Stu Sutcliffe who was kicked in the head during a fight and got a brain hemorrhage and died. Stu wore Ray-bans and sort of looked like Janes Dean but was a real artist and not a musician. He was John's friend from art school (where John met his first wife Cynthia) who died recently.
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