Astrid Kirchherr in front of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, 1964. Astrid Kirchherr was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles and her photographs of the band's original members. The Beatles' first performance at the Cavern Club was on 9 February 1961, featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best on drums. The Beatles soon established themselves as the Cavern Club's signature act. It became the place where their musical identity was forged, and many of their fans maintain that the band was at its best during those lunchtime gigs, learning stagecraft through exchanges with the audience only inches away. The band was always nostalgic about the Cavern. Photo by Max Scheler
Only posted this a couple of weeks ago....RIP Brian, I've loved your music for over 50 years... please log in to view this image “I love the whole Pet Sounds record. I got a full vision out of it in the studio. After that, I said to myself that I had completed the greatest album I will ever produce. I knew it. It was a spiritual record. I wanted to grow musically, to expand our horizons and do something that people would love, and I did it.” please log in to view this image
mate of mine went to both shows on the same day in wellington took a different girl to each show legend
Home guard inspecting a crash-landed Henkel 111 ............ I can just picture him saying to the policeman......The don't like the cold steel up em!
ON THIS DATE (56 YEARS AGO) June 27, 1969 - Free: “I'll Be Creepin'” b/w “Sugar For Mr Morrison” (Island WIP-6062) is released in the UK. https://amzn.to/3HWguYK “I'll Be Creepin'”, written by Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser, opens up Free’s self-titled second album, released in 1969. The album saw the burgeoning of the songwriting partnership between Paul Rodgers and bassist Andy Fraser, which had been glimpsed on Tons of Sobs with songs such as "I'm a Mover"; here, eight out of the nine tracks bear a Fraser/Rodgers credit. Possibly as a result of the sixteen year-old Fraser's influence as a songwriter the bass guitar is far more prominent here than on the previous album, and indeed is used more widely than most other bands' albums do. The instrument is used as a rhythm guitar, driving the songs, while Kossoff's lead guitar develops from it. By the early 1970s, Free was one of the biggest-selling British blues-rock groups; by the time the band dissolved in 1973, they had sold more than 20 million albums around the world and had played more than 700 arena and festival concerts. please log in to view this image
