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Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon a Time

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If you are a Beatles keenie and would enjoy seeing previously unpublished photos of the boys, this book is for you. It's a unique, bittersweet collection showing the joy and innocence which characterized the group's very early days together. A wonderful bonus is Astrid's introduction which provides information about these early days that was news even to this life-long Beatles fanatic!

This is a coffee table book of photography of The Beatles in 1964, around the time they were filming Hard Day's Night. These candid shots show the band members in their early days: young, handsome, and excited about the future. I enjoyed the photographs of Liverpool, especially the photographs taken in the famous Cavern Club where The Beatles played early in their rise to fame. This book is likely to interest only Beatles fanatics, since the photographs are limited to such a short time in the band's career.

The Beatles' old friend Astrid, whom they met in Hamburg Germany during their pre-Ringo days has taken some nonpareil photographs of the boys. This book is a treasure trove for Beatle fans. There are many previously unpublished photos which will no doubt delight inveterate Beatle fans.

Astrid, credited for giving the boys their iconic moptop coiffure has included pictures of the homes where the Beatles grew up. My personal favorite were pictures of the senior Harrisons in their living room, which was festooned with pictures of George, some of which were life-sized that fans had sent them.

This delightful book captures an innocence about early 1964, the Ford Falcon Era and the Year of the Beatles. Readers will undoubtedly love Astrid's introduction which describes the Beatles' salad days of 1960-61, just before their meteoric rise to unprecedented musical fame! I give this one a hearty yeah, yeah, yeah! I really love it!

Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler's book YESTERDAY: THE BEATLES ONCE UPON A TIME is a wonderful book filled with black and white pictures of the fab four on the set of A Hard Day's Night. It also shows George and Ringo at home in Liverpool visiting their parents after they made it big.

Another great thing about the big is that there are pictures of other bands that performed at the famous "Cavern" and great pictures of the audience with girls and their big bouffant hair-dos as well as pictures of the streets in Liverpool and the kids playing in them.

The book is nice and large and the pictures are printed on high quality, heavy stock paper. There's introduction by Kirchherr and Scheler about how the photos came to be. The only thing that's missing is captions for each picture, which would've been nice.

What I really like about the book is that it gives the reader a glimpse into the past and what life must have been like back then. I highly recommend it to Beatle fans and anyone who enjoys great photography!

I gave this to my friend and he says he has been waiting for this book for years, he is very happy with it.

My wife loved it and it made an a great addition to her Beatles collection.

There was a problem with delivery date and this seller did their best to satisfy my every question and concern

I like this book but it has as many photos of Astrid as it does her subjects (I am exaggerating). Her preference for George is well known so there are many wonderful photos of him, just in case you are looking for a book with great George photos. Anyway, I am cynical I know but it seemed to me that Astrid really wanted to ride on the Beatles bandwagon. I would not have expected that being around the others, knowing that her love Stu was gone, would have pleased her so much. I noticed also that she abandoned the Beatles haircut and was vitually indistinguishable from Pattie and Cynthia. She looked good. All in all a nice photo essay of the early Beatles.

To correct the previous review it should be noted that Astrid Kirchherr did NOT take the photograph which appears on the cover of Meet The Beatles. The photograph, which also appears as the cover of the band's second British release "With The Beatles" was taken by Robert Freeman. Astrid did however take some of the classic photos of the band as young, leather clad rockers in Hamburg. Those photos are not only classically artistic in their own right they are often considered to be the basic blueprint for much future rock and roll photography. Ultimately, Astrid Kirchherr did play a significant part in the early evolution of the Beatles. Like the previous reviewer I have not yet read the book so I do not feel qualified to rate it any higher than average at this time. However, as an avid Beatles fan I feel confident that any first hand account of their early days related by someone so close to the group during that early formative period should be interesting and informative reading.

have not read book but Astrid was their female babe friend in Hamburg. She was dating Klause Voorman, Artist on "Revolver" and Manfred Mann Bass player. Astrid and Stu Sutcliffe were in love with each other. Stu was the real 5th Beatle, friend of John and incompetent bass player for the Beatles before he died. Astrid took several famous pictures of the Beatles in Germany. She created A. the Beatles Haircut and B. the stylistic photo of the Beatles in half light and half dark as used on Meet the Beatles album cover and the British "With the Beatles" album cover. I will buy the book and read her perspective since she has a strong and unique postion in the early Beatles legacy.

Kevin Johnson
Houston, Texas