Astridd Kirchherr took her favourite picture in April 1962, days after her fiance, Stuart Sutcliffe, died in her arms on the way to a Hamburg hospital. You may have seen it: Sutcliffe’s best friend, John Lennon, sits in sombre half-light with a boyish George Harrison behind him.
just watched a documentary on the beatles “breaking through the iron curtain” last night. It was pretty cool. The Beatles represented freedom to the youth of communist Russia. Owning or listening to their music was a crime against country.
