The Beatles in the 60s – REX FEATURES / SIPA
She contributed to their legend. German photographer Astrid Kirchherr died at the age of 81 in Hamburg, reported several German media on Saturday. She died as a result of a serious illness, according to her entourage quoted in several media, including the weekly Die Zeit and public television NDR. She was particularly famous for having taken many pictures of
Beatles in the 1960s.
Then 22 years old, she had met the English group still in its beginnings in 1960 during a tour in Hamburg, and had become friends with them, at a time when the “boys in the wind” did not weren’t international stars yet. At the time, the group still had five members, in addition to John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, also Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, who fell in love with Astrid Kirchherr and stayed in Hamburg later, before suddenly dying of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.
At the origin of the mythical bowl cut
The photographer took in 1960 many pictures of the group at their beginnings, in an alternating look rebellious and romantic posture, which then passed to posterity. Astrid Kirchherr then lived for the bulk of their reproduction rights, according to the NDR channel.
Astrid Kirchherr is also said to have been behind the famous Beatles bowl cutter in the early 1960s. She first practiced it on one of her German graphic designer’s friends before the English group became infatuated with it. , tells the chain. The photographer subsequently stayed in touch with the Beatles, notably with George Harrison.
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