Astrid Kirchherr Photos

This book finally compiles many of the images put out by Genesis in the 1990s, with candids from Harrison and Starr’s apartment during the shooting of Hard Day’s Night, the HDN set with Richard Lester and Pattie Boyd, and a fascinating trip to Liverpool where the Cavern is overrun by beat-bands such as The Undertakers. The Archers, pre-teen lads shot outside Ringo’s home, look for all the world like the Fabs as they might have been, in a Liverpool barely changed since the war. The fatalism etched in the faces of Beatle parents tells a story of stoic pride and gobsmacked humility as the world suddenly peeks in…
More Kirchherr photos on flickr…
See also: Jurgen Vollmer’s The Beatles in Hamburg 1961