1/31/2023 0 Comments Red light district band![]() ![]() This tiny venue, at Große Freiheit 64, is still going strong today.įuelled by a heady mix of youthful enthusiasm, raw talent and Preludin pills, the nascent Beatles hurtled through an eclectic assortment of rock, pop, and R & B covers at high volume and breakneck speed. That same night, the then Fab Five of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe, a raggle-taggle gang of leather-jacketed, pompadoured Scousers played their first gig at the Indra, a self-styled ‘music and vaudeville’ club. When the Beatles rolled into the shabby dockland neighbourhood of St Pauli in a small van early in the morning of August 17, 1960, Hamburg’s post-war resurgence was just beginning. This August marks the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four’s debut 48-night stint at Indra, a strip club on Große Freiheit, a notorious side street that runs off the Reeperbahn, Hamburg's infamous red-light boulevard.įive decades after The Beatles’ German sojourn, you can still recreate your own magical mystery tour around the iconic hotspots of the Hanseatic city where the world's greatest pop group came of age. That’s because though The Beatles formed in Liverpool, they learned their licks in the backstreet clubs of the gritty northern German port city. When John Lennon was once asked what it was like growing up in Liverpool, he quipped: “I didn't grow up in Liverpool. ![]()
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