![]() ![]() ![]() Then Johnny Kidd and I walked across the road, but into the path of a bus, which knocked me down.” Kidd was the singer in Johnny Kidd and the Pirates who, ironically, wore eye-patches when performing. ![]() I went to hospital and had a patch put over it. “Three weeks ago some boy biffed me in the Cavern and gave me a black eye. Harrison wrote that autumn to Kirchherr about how he had recently been back in Liverpool. The baby was to be Julian, who too became a singer-songwriter. Lennon’s letter adds that Cynthia is pregnant with “this little John inside her”. “Both Astrid and John were grieving at the same time.” “Stuart was really the one person to whom Lennon looked up,” says Hempel, who for the past two decades has given tours and talks about the Beatles in Hamburg. You will always be Stuart’s Astrid to us.” You must know that Cyn, I and the other Beatles will always feel the same about you. ![]() “I’m really sorry you are so sad and uncertain about yourself. “Yes, it’s me – John Winston.” (Winston really was Lennon’s middle name). Lennon’s letter, written to her from his home in Liverpool in October 1962, six months after Sutcliffe’s death, starts in his inimitable larky style. The unseen letters to Kirchherr have been owned for many years by an unidentified German man, who is now selling them at auction. A letter from George Harrison to Astrid Kirchherr, from 1964. ![]()
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