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Long-time Beatles collaborator Klaus Voorman has recalled getting to know George Harrison during The Beatles’ time in Hamburg in 1960. He also described how a young Harrison wasn’t yet the ‘quiet Beatle’ he would later be characterised as.

In a new interview with Uncut, Voorman said: “The first time I saw George he was only 17 years of age. He was very different to how he was later. He was a cocky little boy! This band he was with was completely unknown. It was the autumn of 1960. In this club in Hamburg, the Kaiserkeller, they played for people to dance.”

This period of Beatles history is regarded as when they honed their performance skills, and so it’s perhaps unsurprising that they hadn’t yet mastered their defining songwriting just yet as Voorman explained: “George was singing all those funny songs, which he did later on a little bit, when he sat around and played ukulele. He was into songs like I’m Henry The Eighth, I Am, singing it all cockney. He would sing all those Eddie Cochran numbers too, like Twenty Flight Rock.”

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