Wednesday, 11th April, 1962
John, Paul and Pete fly from Liverpool to Hamburg to begin a seven week engagement at the Star-Club. The still sick George is scheduled to fly out the following day. It is the first time any of them have flown and are in a state of excitement when they arrive at Hamburg […]
Tuesday, 10th April, 1962
In Hamburg, Germany, Stuart Sutcliffe collapses and dies from a brain hemmorage at the age of 21.
Sunday 2nd July, 1961
The Beatles leave Hamburg following their extended engagement at The Top Ten Club and start their journey back home to Liverpool.
Saturday, 1st July, 1961.
The Beatles played the last set of their extended gig at the Top Ten Club at Reeperbhan #136, Hamburg, Germany bringing to and end a record setting thirteen week engagement during which they played an incredible 503 hours of music.
The 1st July, 1961 was also the first effective day of a year-long contract that […]
Sunday, 25th June, 1961
The Beatles started the last week of their extended thirteen week engagement at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg.
According to the page from the club’s pay book shown below their weekly pay was around 215DM ($135) each for performing around 50 hours of live music a week.
This particular pay reciept from the […]
Saturday, 24th June, 1961
According to some sources the Tony Sheridan / Bert Kaempfert recording sessions ran on into a third day. The notes on the 1984 CD release suggest that on the Saturday the recording session was switched to the Studio Rahlstedt in Hamburg to record a single track; a cover of the Jimmy Reed […]
Friday, 23rd June, 1961
According to some sources the Tony Sheridan / Bert Kaempfert recording session at the Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg ran over to a second day. However there is no apparent documentry evidence to support this.
Thursday 22nd June, 1961
This is the most probable date of The Beatles’ first recording session with German producer Bert Kaempfert although it can’t be verified for certain. What we do know of these sessions dates back to a set of sleeve notes on a 1984 CD reissue of material, however several things in those notes […]
Sunday, 18th June, 1961
The Beatles started the penultimate, and what would turn out to be the most significant, week of their contract at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg.
Sunday, 11th June, 1961
The Beatles started the 11th week of their already twice extended contract at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg.
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
