While in Berlin it was hard to access the forum, but now that I'm back, over the next few days, I'll report on more high points of the Typo 2007 event.
The high point for me was the conversation between Gerrit Terstiege (editor-in-chief of FORM magazine) and Klaus Voormann, the artist/designer who concieved the Beatles (BEST) album, REVOLVER, and a bass player with the Plastic Ono Band, Ringo Star, concert for Bangledesh, and scores of other sessions, and designed the Beatles Anthology graphics.
The elegant looking Voorman (who is portrayed - not to his liking - in the film Back Beat, about the Bealtes early years in Hamburg) candidly answered questions about how Revolver came to be (he was told by Paul and John to conceive an idea and if it was good, they'd use it) but unlike other retrospective views of the lads, he refused to share the intimate details of the Beatles' lives.
For me REVOLVER's music and design changed the way I viewed music and design. So, while at my advanced years its hard to be a groupie, but there I was having him sign his autobiography and asking him one question that has truly plagued me since I first bought the album (which today hangs framed in my son's room):
"Mr. Voormann, is John wearing a fake beard in the collaged photograph on the cover?"
"Yes," he replied in English with his lyrical German accent, "why do you ask.?"
"Well, its just stuck in my mind all these years," I said in my nasal New Yorkese.
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