george-harrison-marwa-blues: Teddy boy George photographed by friend Jurgen Vollmer in 1961 at Raben
george-harrison-marwa-blues: Teddy boy George photographed by friend Jurgen Vollmer in 1961 at Rabenstraße Stop in Hamburg. “In 1960, Astrid Kirchherr took some superlative photos of The Beatles in Hamburg. She took none at all in 1961, scaling back her work to help out Reinhart Wolf. His other assistant Jurgen Vollmer made up for it. Early in this second visit he asked George to go out with him for a few hours for a solo session, and George agreed, slipping into his leather jacket and greasing back his quiff. The others showed their intrigue with nods and winks. They knew Jurgen had a crush on George; he sometimes wore an I LIKE IKE badge he’d altered to read I LIKE GEORGE. ‘It was chemical,’ says Jurgen. ‘I liked George the most. He was very quiet and shy, like me, and also a dreamer.’ This was an experimental day, because Jurgen had never done a photo session before. He was using a Rolleicord camera borrowed from Wolf, probably the same one Astrid had used for her first shoot. The results were similarly excellent. He fired off a role of twelve black-and-white photos on the Alster ferry, and eight more frames on the landing stage at Winterhuder Faehrhaus, and George’s character and youth shine fresh from the spring images. George was well liked by his Hamburg friends. Klaus remembers that they were fond of his long eye-teeth, his Segelohren (protruding ears) and the seemingly involuntary way his leg twitched when he played guitar. Jurgen smiles as he recalls, ‘Stuart told me that when George got back to the others, after spending the day with me, he didn’t say anything except “Jurgen is fab”. Just that, nothing else.’”- excerpted from “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years Volume I” by Mark Lewisohn -- source link