In celebration of the Beatles' remixed "Revolver" album being released, cover designer Klaus Voormann joined host Kenneth Womack for a special bonus episode of "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Voormann, a German artist, musician and record producer, is a true Beatles insider who first met the band in 1960 when they were performing in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. As he tells Womack, he came across them when he heard music "coming from a basement window" of the Kaiserkeller nightclub in the entertainment district. He went inside the club, and the next group to perform was the Beatles. "Their sound was fresh, it was new and raw," says Voormann. "I thought it was fantastic."
