BEAT HIRT - BEAT BY BEAT And when you close the

And when you close the book

did not exist for the amateur

I arrived broken hearted in Ohio

Charlie Chaplin or Robert Frank

characterized by an almost

BEAT HIRT - BEAT BY BEAT And when you close theBeat (BEh Aht) Hirt (1939 2024) was Switzerland's first pop journalist. Here are his memories of the sixties. Cheeky, crisp, no sugarcoating. "This book is a mix of memories, reappraised a half century after the musical big bang in Liverpool. The birth of the rock age, as I experienced it as a photographing reporter between Zurich, Paris and London. The awakening of a scene before my eyes and in my ears. Suddenly being right in the middle of it,