Klaus Voormann was an artist. Born in early post-war Germany, he grew up in poor circumstances. He lived in Hamburg, where he met his fate. In the late fifites, he began dating Astrid Kirchherr. One day, after a fight with her and another friend of his, he wandered into the "bad" the part of Hamburg. He walked into a club and heard a performance by a band called The Silver Beetles. He was enthralled by these musicians from Liverpool, and ran back to Astrid to tell her about them. Klaus, Astrid, and a few other friends attended the next Silver Beetles concert. They began to talk to The Silver Beetles after the performance, and a new circle of friends was formed. Astrid began dating Stu Sutcliffe, though she remained close friends with Klaus. Klaus Voorman faded out of the history of that rock group (which became The Beatles with Stu Sutcliffe gone and the drummer, Pete Best replaced by Ringo Starr). When The Beatles returned to Hamburg in the mid sixties, they met up with Klaus and invited him to do the art for their upcoming album. Klaus had a style of "scrapbook collage" art, and did a very good job of it for the sleeve of Revolver. Klaus, then, became a member of the 1960s band, Manfred Mann. Afterwards, he also played on solo albums by three of the Beatles (Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon, All Things Must Pass by George Harrison and McCartney by Paul McCartney). More recently, he did the covers for the Beatles Anthology albums (using his scrapbook style) as well as producing TRIO.
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