The Fool: 1960s Dutch Artists & Friends of The Beatles & Cream

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The Fool: 1960s Dutch Artists & Friends of The Beatles & Cream

Four Dutch artists from the 1960s collectively called themselves The Fool.
They were close friends of The Beatles, Cream and The Hollies.

The Fool helped colorize the 1960s.
They designed clothes, painted psychedelic murals (including The Beatles’ Apple Boutique) and guitars belonging to Eric Clapton and George Harrison.
Their debut album (shown above) was produced by Graham Nash.

The Fools were Simon Posthuma, Marijke Koeger, Josje Leeger and Barry Finch.

Little is heard from them these days.
They have become a mere footnote (albeit an important one) in Beatles and Cream history.
But Simon Posthuma wrote his autobiography (in Dutch) and I recently came across this brief interview Posthuma gave after the book was published.

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  1. By Time Magazine 1966: London Swings! on April 22, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    [...] a late night of recording or concerts, members of rock’s royalty like The Beatles and Rolling Stones would hang out nightclubs like the Ad Lib and The Scotch. The Scotch Disoctheque [...]

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