George Harrison: Living in the Material World Page #3

That's what this place is known for.

Klaus was always very laid back.

You know, you couldn't quite

impress him by things.

He always said,

"Yeah, great. Fantastic."

But when he came home seeing

the Beatles for the first time,

I've never seen him like that

before. He just went crazy.

When I came down

to the Kaiserkeller with Klaus,

after, he had to persuade me

for three days. I just freaked out.

Seeing them onstage, faces I always

dreamt of taking pictures of,

because they had so much personality

and were still young, like I was.

Gonna write a little letter,

gonna mail it to my local DJ

It's a rocking little record

I want my jockey to play

Roll over Beethoven,

got to hear it again today.

We didn't really

have that much money.

We only just really

had enough to feed ourselves,

so there was nothing really

to show for it.

But everything else was such a buzz.

You know, being right in the middle

of the naughtiest city in the world

at 17 years old.

It was kind of exciting.

And learning, you know,

about it all.

There's the gangsters

and the transvestites.

And there's the... You know, it was

like that. There's the hookers.

They looked real strange,

teddy boy-like.

They didn't

have the leather gear yet.

The leather thing came

when they met Astrid and me

and the way we were walking around.

We loved this band.

We were knocked out. And we

didn't realise how they lived.

The Bambi Kino was a porno cinema.

The room they stayed in first

was a sort of place where

you'd normally

put brooms and things.

There was no window, there was just

a light bulb on the ceiling.

And they were sort of living

in these little cupboards,

so to speak, right behind

the screen of that cinema.

And it was terrible,

because they were smelly, stinky.

They couldn't

wash their clothes properly.

Klaus introduced me to them,

and John did his, you know,

"I'm a man, I'm a man" thing.

And Paul was doing his, "I'm a good

boy, good education" bit, you know.

Said hello and shook my hand.

And George was just, looked at me

and said, "Oh, hello.

"And you are Klaus's girlfriend?"

But he was ever so sweet.

I came to know George then.

And he was interested in so many

things, but let's say, on the quiet,

because Paul was the one who said,

"Oh, who is that?"

And "who wrote this book?"

And "who is that on that picture?"

George was just sitting there,

looking at my room, which must

have been very strange to them,

because it was completely black,

with leaves and branches

hanging from the ceiling.

I think, at first,

George thought I was a bit mad.

But that became very shortly

a very lovely and nice friendship.

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