{"id":2924,"date":"2020-10-09T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2021-04-23T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:32:28","slug":"john-lennons-80th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2020\/10\/09\/john-lennons-80th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon&#8217;s 80th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Reinhard Kargl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Lennon would have been 80 years old today. This is my favorite photograph of him. It was taken by J\u00fcrgen Vollmer in 1961, during an early Beatles gig in Hamburg, West Germany, at Wohlwillstra\u00dfe 22, J\u00e4gerpassage 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"558\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/121000587_10217232043625617_9147302178672849862_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/121000587_10217232043625617_9147302178672849862_n.jpg 735w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/121000587_10217232043625617_9147302178672849862_n-400x304.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/121000587_10217232043625617_9147302178672849862_n-624x474.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blurry figures in the foreground are: George Harrison (who died in 2001 in Los Angeles), Stuart Sutcliffe (died in 1962 in Hamburg), and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J\u00fcrgen Vollmer, who together with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann befriended the Beatles in Hamburg, became a successful artist, musician, and record producer. His friendship and occasional collaboration especially with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr continued throughout the decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1975, the photo was used for the cover of John Lennon&#8217;s solo album, &#8220;Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221;.<br><br>Here is the location photographed in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/800px-J\u00e4gerpassage_1_-_Hamburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/800px-J\u00e4gerpassage_1_-_Hamburg.jpg 800w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/800px-J\u00e4gerpassage_1_-_Hamburg-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/800px-J\u00e4gerpassage_1_-_Hamburg-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/800px-J\u00e4gerpassage_1_-_Hamburg-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Wikipedia User Lipinski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\"><h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3445\">Coat And Hat Stands<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3299\">Life Magazine Covers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3274\">A Los Angeles Roadmap From 1917<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3230\">The Garden Of Allah<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Reinhard Kargl John Lennon would have been 80 years old today. This is my favorite photograph of him. It was taken by J\u00fcrgen Vollmer in 1961, during an early Beatles gig in Hamburg, West Germany, at Wohlwillstra\u00dfe 22, J\u00e4gerpassage 1. The blurry figures in the foreground are: George Harrison (who died in 2001 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-music","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}