On August the 17th 1960, The Beatles played their very first concert at Hamburg’s music club Indra. The city will honor the 50th anniversary of The Beatles` very first concert and the band`s exceptional contribution to the history of pop music with various events taking place in Hamburg from 17th to 20th August 2010.
The Beatles took part in the development of the so called `Hamburg Sound` with 281 gigs played over 2,5 years and laid the foundation for their world-spanning career. Beatles fans from all over the world are expected to join the event.
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If you cannot make the festival here are some typical Beatles fans to-do-list.
Visit Beatlemania (www.beatlemania-hamburg.de), Hamburg‘s Beatles museum at Nobistor 10, close by the Beatles square with it‘s Beatles sculpture right at the start of the Große Freiheit. Beatlemania fills five storeys exclusively devoted to commemorating the Fab Four. Travel through time, re-living the world of the Beatles on over 1300 square metres full of extraordinary displays of original Beatles items and unconventional presentations. Afterwards take part in their Beatles barge tour including St. Pauli walk, harbour tour and coffee & cake.
Join musician Stefanie Hempel on her walking Beatles tour (www.stattreisen-hamburg.de ), which guides you to all the important Beatles spots in St. Pauli. Listen to lots of anecdotes from that time and many Beatles songs, Stefanie sings live, accompanied by her tiny ukulele.
If you want to know, what is happening in all the historic clubs where the Beatles used to play, shake your booty to Indie Rock in the basement club Kaiserkeller on Große Freiheit. Or dance the night away to black music and house tracks in the Moondoo on the Reeperbahn, formerly known as Top Ten. You might as well listen to cutting edge bands of the moment in the tiny Molotow at Spielbudenplatz 5. It very well does the job of scouting new talent, which in the Sixties was the distinguishing mark of the legendary Star-Club.
And don‘t miss the famous Reeperbahn Festival, which takes place every last weekend in September. This year for the fifth time Germany‘s biggest club festival invites about 180 international newcomers to some 25 cutting-edge and historic clubs of Beatles-fame on the Reeperbahn. Big time! (September 23 – 25, www.reeperbahnfestival.com)
So during the early Sixties, Hamburg made The Beatles stars. Nowadays the music metropolis invites everybody to newly discover this magnificent legacy. The Beatles themselves never tired of stressing the importance of their apprenticeship years in Hamburg with John Lennon confessing: „I was born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.“
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