Exy

Exy, or Exi was the nickname used by many of the Hamburg fans of the Beatles during the earliest years of their career. The Exies took their name from the existentialist movement, and were themselves influenced by its chief proponents of the time, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

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The Exies had a distinct fashion style which was to influence the Beatles greatly, particularly as regards their famous "moptop" hair-styles. Important members of the movement in the history of the Beatles include Astrid Kirchherr (a photographer who was engaged to original Beatles bass player Stuart Sutcliffe), Klaus Voormann, and Jurgen Vollmer. Much of the early days of the Beatles is recorded in Kirchherr's photographs of the band.

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic....

Albert Camus: Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. Camus was the second youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he received the awa...