We were celebrating Kevin's 12th birthday at Fuddrucker's yesterday, and I was describing the various photos of the Beatles hanging on the restaurant's walls. One of them is from September 1962, and George Harrison was sporting a black eye. Ringo had recently joined the group, and legend has it that George was popped by an angry fan, who preferred original drummer Pete Best. (Except, the legend is really a myth -- but that's another story.)
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e the early haircuts in the photos. Paul has the famous "Beatle Haircut" going pretty well, but contrast that with the cut of new kid on the block, Ringo. (Click the photos above to get an enlarged view.) One of their German friends, Jurgen Vollmer, had his hair styled that way, a little long for the times, and combed to the front. John and Paul asked another German friend, Astrid Kirchherr, to cut theirs that way, too. These German friends were known as "Exis," from existentialism, who dressed in black, were intellectual, artistic, and avant garde.
e the early haircuts in the photos. Paul has the famous "Beatle Haircut" going pretty well, but contrast that with the cut of new kid on the block, Ringo. (Click the photos above to get an enlarged view.) One of their German friends, Jurgen Vollmer, had his hair styled that way, a little long for the times, and combed to the front. John and Paul asked another German friend, Astrid Kirchherr, to cut theirs that way, too. These German friends were known as "Exis," from existentialism, who dressed in black, were intellectual, artistic, and avant garde. In our discussion, the young ones dutifully put up with yet another lesson from me about the Beatles. The insightful Justin, in his wise years of 17, commented, "That's what the Emo's do, now." Very interesting observation, I thought. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Today's kids who call themselves "Emo" dress and look very much like the Bohemian youths did way back in the early 1960s. OK, Emos, go find a copy of the film "Backbeat", a dramatization about the Beatles' early days in Hamburg, for your own little deja vu.
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sign of maturity....happenings come around again! or is it signs of aging???? and imagine a birthday with a history lesson??? you must be invited everywhere...;0)
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