{"id":1949,"date":"2012-12-09T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2013-01-10T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:24:02","slug":"watching-the-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2012\/12\/09\/watching-the-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite photograph of John Lennon is this one, taken by J\u00fcrgen Vollmer in April of 1961. At the time,\u00a0the Beatles were on their second engagement in Germany.\u00a0The location is a\u00a0doorway at J\u00e4gerpassage 1, Wohlwillstrasse 2 in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hamburg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1950\" title=\"John Lennon in Hamburg, 1961\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hamburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hamburg.jpg 705w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hamburg-311x400.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><em>(click to enlarge)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vollmer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldminemag.com\/features\/jurgen-vollmer-remembers-his-lennon-rock-n-roll-photo\" target=\"_blank\">recalls how the image was taken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This picture was one of John Lennon&#8217;s favorites as well. In February of 1975 it hung, framed, on a wall at the home he shared with Yoko Ono at the Dakota building in New York:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennonJukebox233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1959\" title=\"John Lennon with Jukebox\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennonJukebox233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennonJukebox233.jpg 694w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennonJukebox233-316x400.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><em>(click to enlarge)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The object in the background is a jukebox filled with 45-singles Lennon found influential.<\/p>\n<p>The same Hamburg photo also appears on the cover of &#8220;<a title=\"Rock 'n Roll Album\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_'n'_Roll_(John_Lennon_album)\" target=\"_blank\">Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/a>&#8220;, a compilation of Lennon&#8217;s versions of classic rockabilly tunes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennon-albums-rocknroll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1958\" title=\"John Lennon Rock 'n Roll\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennon-albums-rocknroll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennon-albums-rocknroll.jpg 300w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JohnLennon-albums-rocknroll-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3071\">Apple Music Classical<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2924\">John Lennon&#8217;s 80th Birthday<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2242\">Young Johannes Brahms in 1853<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1949\">Watching The Wheels<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1945\">In My Life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite photograph of John Lennon is this one, taken by J\u00fcrgen Vollmer in April of 1961. At the time, the Beatles were on their second engagement in Germany. The location is a doorway at J\u00e4gerpassage 1, Wohlwillstrasse 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}