photo by Astrid Kirchherr
Rory the rocker. His band, Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, were on the Liverpool and Hamburg scene around the same time as The Beatles. While very successful in the club scene, they were never able to translate the same success to their recordings and never found the momentum that catapulted The Beatles into the stratosphere.
The stunning photo of Rory, born Alan Caldwell, was taken by Kirchherr, the German girlfriend of Beatles' bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe stayed on Germany to be with Astrid, later dying of a brain aneurysm. Ironically, Ringo Starr left Rory Storm and The Hurricanes to become the drummer for The Beatles.
Rory died young at the age of 33
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