Wenn ich siebzig bin
September 1, 2011 10:39 AM Subscribe
Over the past 13 years, Berlin resident
Klaus Beyer has
translated the Beatles' entire oeuvre into German, recording the translated songs in his home studio and releasing them on
CDs with titles like
Gummi Seele,
Kloster strasse and
Das Gelbe Underwasserboot, even recreating the cover artwork of the originals.
Beyer, 59, who became a Beatles fan after seeing them on German television in the late 1960s, commenced the project in the 1980s, originally for the benefit of his non-English-speaking mother, and continued it as a somewhat idiosyncratic labour of love, armed with only his school English and a dictionary. He finished the project recently with the recording of
Das Weisse Album, though aims to tackle John Lennon's solo work next.
posted by wabbittwax at 10:57 AM on September 1, 2011 [1 favorite]