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♪ ♪ ♪Klaus Voormann
Artist - Musician - Producer
Klaus was a successful commercial artist in Hamburg before he decided to pursue a musical career. In the 1960's Klaus was a member of three bands: Paddy, Klaus & Gibson,
the Manfred Mann Band and Plastic Ono Band
Throughout the 1970’s Klaus worked as a highly sought after session musician. He can be heard on over 100 albums including recordings by John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Randy Newman, BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lou Reed, Leon Russell and dozens of others.
Klaus is the recipient of two Grammy Awards. In 1965 he was asked by John Lennon to create a graphic cover for The Beatles’ next LP. Klaus designed the now legendary Revolver cover and in 1966 he was awarded the Grammy for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. Klaus’s second Grammy was awarded to him for his participation in the Concert for Bangladesh.
In the 1980's Klaus produced the German band Trio, and brought them worldwide attention with "Da Da Da", a song that was a hit in over 30 countries.
In 1996 Klaus created the art for The Beatles Anthology project. Klaus developed an ingenious way of depicting the progression of the band’s sound and style by painting a combination of posters and album covers in peeling layers. Along with fellow artist and friend, Alfons Kiefer, Klaus employed a photorealistic style of painting to complete the work. It took them over 1000 hours to finish the painting which adorns the covers of all three Anthology albums, the VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, posters, lithographs and
lots of other products associated with The Beatles Anthology.
Today Klaus is a very busy artist working on a variety of different projects. Please click the official site link above for Klaus's full biography and to read up on some of his
current activities and recent news.
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Klaus played on and/or designed these albums
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Watch the video to see Klaus playing
'The Mighty Quinn' with Manfred Mann
Blue Suede Shoes
Plastic Ono Band at the Toronto Peace Festival
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Concert for Bangladesh
* The Concert for George *
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