Why Don't You Play 'Imagine' On The White Piano, John?- Klaus Voormann | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

I’ll also do little footnote things on this thread just so I don’t have to type them out in every PM, these will mostly relate to pictures I think but we’ll see as it goes on.

The photo that I used in the dedication is not the same as the one in the original text because despite much scouring I couldn’t find it online. However the picture that I did use is from the same time period and the clothes that the person is wearing are practically the same in the original photo as well. Klaus does talk about it later on in the book so I’ll continue searching for it online but if push comes to shove, I’ll scan it (if I break the spine in doing so I’m going to kill you all….just kidding ).

Hope you all enjoy it 🙂

^Klaus’ autobiography is really original and probably the best autobiography I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a good few), he presumes that you know a bit about The Beatles so he doesn’t repeat the information that everyone knows instead he tells unique, little anecdotes that are often very funny and/or very sad or poignant (especially his memories of George).

And if it’s been a while since I’ve posted a chapter, feel free to PM me to ask what’s going on or when is the next one out (I won’t take offense), it’ll push me to do more of it so you’ll end up getting the chapter quicker.

I aim to have Chapter 1 done and sent out by Monday/Tuesday.

Pineapple Records said
“Klaus’ autobiography is really original and probably the best autobiography I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a good few), he presumes that you know a bit about The Beatles so he doesn’t repeat the information that everyone knows instead he tells unique, little anecdotes that are often very funny and/or very sad or poignant (especially his memories of George).”

That whets my appetite even more!  Schönen Dank!

Bitte schön!

Silly Girl said
Just want to say thank you so much for doing this, @AppleScruffJunior.  I only hope it won’t demand too much time or whatever. It can technically be considered educational and not just a labour of love, right?  

The table of contents is brilliant already

Ch. 11: ‘My name is George Harrison of the Beatles, can you please lend me thirty thousand pounds?’ 

and the dedication made me a bit teary… 

That’s my excuse for using the computer excessively “but I’m revising German mam”.

On another note: For anyone who is learning German I strongly advise you to get this book. Klaus uses “relatively basic” German but he taught me brilliant adjectives and colloquial expressions that I can use to make me sound like “a real-live German” as my German teacher lovingly puts it. He also has a really nice prose style and his writing is quite poetic which is refreshing for “another” musician’s autobiography.

I was at a friend’s house yesterday so I didn’t get started until this evening and it is so difficult to make Klaus and George not look like they’re lovers. I swear to God , the words Klaus chose, it makes it sound like they’re going over for a fun time rather than for a catch-up so I’m sorry if the Prologue reads like homoerotic fanfiction 

The majority of you will also have seen I think slightly more than half of this already as I posted it around Christmas time on the Fiendish Thingies’ page, so sorry if it feels like you’re reading the same thing twice but I did spruce up this translation/did a better job than the original one I posted here so meh…

Also it looks like it’s going to be out either Tuesday afternoon or evening but who knows I might get a burst of energy tomorrow and have it done in the afternoon, we’ll wait and see 🙂

Actually doing this has been quite productive for me as not only am I revising German but I’m actually bothering to listen to all of Wings’ albums for once so I’m killing two birds with one stone!

And thanks for all the PMs so far 

Bear with me lads and lassies, I’ll 90% have it put out tonight but I have 4 pages left to do and it takes a f**k load of time to get a page done and I need to reread over it and I’ll probably do a few changes there so sometime between 12am-1am GMT is when it should be in your inboxes and if you don’t get it by 1:30am I’ve most likely fallen asleep so feel free to send me criticizing PMs.

Edit: And I’m just finished George’s deportation experience and now I’m sad 

Silly Girl said
Not to sound ungrateful, but we’re not allowed to proofread/edit/Grammar Nazi it, are we?  We’re only allowed to just read and enjoy it, right?  

Because I can turn my settings to ‘Grammar Nazi– Off’, if you really insist. 

Ah bollocks, I guess I should cut out the midnight typing sessions then >.> 

I  think I’ll do my proof-reading during the day so I’m not as bloody tired and wanting to go to bed (as I was last night ) so hopefully you won’t see any further booboos.

I have a strong belief in never looking over something once I’ve submitted it so I’ll revise it once I’ve finished everything else (speaking of which if any once wants the PDF at the end of this whole thing, you’re welcome to send me your email either now or when I’m finished and I promise I won’t sell it on to Nigerian princes ). but feel free to post my failures (I mean if I can’t be perfect in my mother tongue how am I expected to be any good at other languages  )

And wow that was a lot of smileys!

Pineapple Records said
Thanks again to AppleScruffJunior!

Yeah, I can be a Proofing Nazi too, like Silly Girl mentioned; but for this I kind of turn it off (unless AppleScruffJunior (ASJ) wants that degree of input).  Interesting insights from a more human everyday perspective from Klaus.  And fascinating off-the-cuff mentions of things I never knew (e.g., Paul put into prison in Hamburg).

One thing I would say, if I may: ASJ mentioned she changed “eye candy” because she didn’t like that (presumably to “she always looked stunning”).  I hope ASJ doesn’t do that too much; it seems rather ideologically severe.  Even if I agree with the ideological judgement in question, I believe in the sanctity of primary sources texts, no matter how much some part of the text might put me off… but I guess “beggars can’t be choosers”…

The word he used was ‘Augenweide’ which literally means ‘feast for the eyes’ (which is quite a nice phrase), I knew what it meant (I was going to say from previous experiences with a winkey face but then I remembered I get more crude phrases ) but I like to double, triple check things just to see what other dictionaries and native Germans think would be a suitable translation, one of them, “eye-candy” I thought was more of a juvenile word and not something that would befit the 65 year old man he was at the time he wrote it so I changed it to “stunning”. Also we wouldn’t really say ‘feast for the eyes’ in English so I changed it to ‘”stunning” for that reason as well.

It’s what is awkward about German, one word means so many things and don’t even start with the describing John paragraph and the bankruptcy paragraph, oh holy sweet Jesus, doing those 5 lines or whatever they were almost drove me mad, WHAT THE HELL IS HE TRYING TO SAY?!?

Wow that above paragraph is the perfect excellent example of word vomiting onto a page.