George Harrison photographed by Astrid Kirchherr in Hamburg in April 1962.
“He was a lovely little boy. He was just little George. We never judged him in any way, the way we used to work out how intelligent or clever Stu, John and Paul were. He didn’t develop as quickly as the others had done. But he wasn’t stupid. No one thought that for one minute. He made lovely jokes at his own expense, sending himself up for being young. I gave them all their Christmas presents one year, all wrapped up. John opened his first and it was an Olympia Press version of the Marquis de Sade. George picked up his and said, ‘What’s in mine then, comics?’” - Astrid Kirchherr (on George in the early 1960s), The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968)
“He was then, he still is now: my Georgie boy.” - Astrid Kirchherr, translated from Spiegel, 2/1994
“George was always my favourite, his kindness and his wit. He was just a wonderful person and whenever I was in trouble, like with money and things, he was always looking after me and he invited me a couple of times to London and later on to Henley. I just miss him terribly because he was like a little guardian angel for me, I feel like I am in a way lost without him.” - Astrid Kirchherr, Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective (2010) (x)
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