#686 Revolver Cover Artist and Bassist Klaus Voormann, The Artist vs. the Art

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🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot sit down with artist and musician Klaus Voormann. Klaus shares his unique vantage point to rock and roll history: he designed the cover artwork for The Beatles’ album, Revolver, lived with George and Ringo and was a session bassist on many iconic albums in the 1970s including Imagine, All Things Must Pass and Plastic Ono Band. Also in the light of the recent R. Kelly docu-series, the hosts revisit their discussion about the artist vs. the art: whether art can be evaluated separately from the artist's ethics.

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0:00.0	One, three, three, four. From W.B. E. Z. Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott. And I'm Jim De Regadis. You may not know the name, Klaus Vorman, but you've heard his
0:28.9	base on Imagine, Seen his art on the cover of Revolver, and Heard His production on da da. seen his
0:33.6	art on the cover of Revolver and heard his production on da da da.
0:36.6	Every time of what was Carly, if it was John, if it was George,
0:40.6	whoever it was we all were friends, and that is something I miss to the very day.
0:47.0	Plus, we'll examine whether it's okay to enjoy good art made by bad people.
0:55.0	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:57.0	You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're going to talk to musician and graphic artist Klaus Vorman. Now you may not have heard that name before but you've definitely heard him playing on iconic songs like John Lennon's Imagine,
1:14.0	Carly Simon's You're So Vane. He also was a graphic designer.
1:18.0	He designed the album cover for The Beatles revolver,
1:21.0	one of the greatest albums of all time.
1:23.0	Oh yes.
1:24.0	We're going to talk with him a bit later, but first, a conversation about art versus the artist.
1:28.0	Yeah, Greg, it's a complicated topic, and we are revisiting it because of the explosion of the
1:34.8	docu series about R Kelly six hours aired on lifetime a tremendous amount of
1:40.0	respect I have for the filmmaker Dream Hampton. She charts the sexual
1:45.2	verbal and physical abuse of young black girls at the hands of R&B
1:50.8	Superstar R Kelly for 30 years. It's based on 18 years of my reporting. I'm not in the film.
1:58.6	I have a book coming out about R Kelly called Solis in the fall. I think the thing that spurred this
2:05.5	attention was two articles in 2017 that I did for BuzzFeed. He was acquitted
2:11.9	on 14 counts of making child pornography in 2008.
2:16.4	You know, Greg, he never sold more records than he did in the six and a half years between
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