The Beatles onstage at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, spring of 1961, and (photo 5) backstage at Hamburg’s Ernst-Merck-Halle on June 26, 1966 (scanned from Mach Schau! Die Beatles in Hamburg); all photos by Peter Brüchmann.
“You know, they say knock on the door and it will be opened or seek and ye will find. In those days we went through so much experience – almost like going through twenty years of experience all crammed into three, four years. And some of those experiences were pretty heavy. And it just made me feel like I wanted to know what was the point of all this. Because as you said, we made our money and fame and all that which is what most people regard as making it. But for me that wasn’t it. It was good fun for a while but it certainly wasn’t the answer as to what life was all about. And so I needed to know what that was about. If you know historically, I got involved with Ravi Shankar, with Indian music, I went to India, I did a bit of yoga and then I did a bit of meditation. And through all that experience somewhere down the line, the answers came to me as to what the point of life was and what are we doing in these bodies. And so I don’t really have so many questions any more.” - George Harrison, interviewed by Dave Tollington in Toronto (1988)
“George was one of few who found what they were looking for. It touches me deeply to think that I could at least accompany him a part of that way, from the little cheekily grinning seventeen-year-old boy who wooed the Reeperbahn girls with ‘Corinna Corinna’ to the wise and knowing man that he had already been for a long time before leaving the world stage forever far too soon in November 2001. I will never be able to describe in words how much he meant to me and how much I will always miss him.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from Warum spielst du Imagine nicht auf dem weißen Klavier, John?
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