Showing posts with label Hamburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamburg. Show all posts
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Klaus Voormann - A Sideman's Journey - CD Released January 2011
Voormann & Friends - A Sideman’s Journey is an extraordinary album project by renowned German graphic designer, illustrator, musician and producer Klaus Voormann. Recorded with more than 30 musicians, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yusuf (Cat Stevens), members of Manfred Mann and Dr. John, the album tells the story of how well-known sideman Voormann retraced the footsteps of his musical biography back to where it all began.
Double Grammy® winner Klaus Voormann not only left his mark on musical history as a bass player (winning the Grammy® performing on the 1972 album The Concert for Bangledesh), but has also set some milestones as a graphic designer with his Grammy® award for designing the Beatles’ Revolver cover in 1966. That was the first time anyone had won for a graphic album cover. He is nominated for his third Grammy® for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package along with Daniel Reiss for the Deluxe version of A Sideman’s Journey.
Voormann’s name conjures up iconic moments in pop history—in the music world, Beatles history, as well as in the cover-artwork scene. He first became involved with the Beatles back in their Hamburg days in the early 1960s. Over the ensuing years he became a member of both Manfred Mann and the Plastic Ono Band and worked as a musician and producer in the U.K. and U.S.A. with John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Eric Clapton and B.B. King to name a few. Since 1981 he has worked as a producer in his native Germany for many artists, including Trio (“Da Da Da” and many more hits), and in 2003 he published his autobiography, Warum spielst Du Imagine nicht auf dem weisen Klavier, John? (Why don’t you play Imagine on the white Piano, John?).
But after many years he decided to reminisce with his friends and this journey was luckily documented. A Sideman’s Journey is the outcome of seven studio sessions in London, Memphis, Hamburg, Los Angeles and Munich, together with the best of international session musicians and many stars:
Paul McCartney - Ringo Starr - Yusuf (Cat Stevens) - Dr. John - Jim Keltner - Albert Lee - Van Dyke Parks - Joe Walsh (The Eagles) - Max Buskohl – Bonnie Bramlett and many others.
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| Super Deluxe Edition 2009 |
Includes 14-track CD + DVD including a 10-minute recording session documentary, 68-page hardcover book and signed and numbered fine art print by Klaus Voormann. The bonus DVD, “Making of a Sideman’s Journey,” carries the viewer into the center of the action. This is not a staged production. This DVD is a powerful and passionate documentary showing how this audio-visual work of art came into being.
Single CD, released January 18, 2011
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Beatles Monument in Hamburg
BERLIN - A monument to the Beatles will be constructed in Hamburg, where the Fab Four launched their international career 45 years ago.
Radio station Oldie 95, the organizer, says the $625,000 steel monument will be built on a corner of the St. Pauli district near clubs where the Beatles played songs such as "Love Me Do" in 1962.
The monument will represent Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and early Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in Hamburg in 1962, the radio station said Monday.
Construction is expected to begin this year.
Radio station Oldie 95, the organizer, says the $625,000 steel monument will be built on a corner of the St. Pauli district near clubs where the Beatles played songs such as "Love Me Do" in 1962.
The monument will represent Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and early Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in Hamburg in 1962, the radio station said Monday.
Construction is expected to begin this year.
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