1 April 2025

Eternal pop legends THE BEATLES began a three-month residency at The Top Ten Club,
in Hamburg, Germany, playing 92 straight nights. The group played for seven hours a night
on weekdays and eight hours at weekends with a fifteen-minute break every hour. Talking about Hard Day Nights.

Even more famous are their countless gigs at the Star-Club, also in Hamburg. From those shows, a double live album was recorded, Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962.

During that long stay German photographer Astrid Kirchherr cut The Fab Four‘s original, Scottish bassist Stuart Sutcliffe‘s hair into the style that became the “Beatle haircut”. .

Book by Spencer Leigh – 2011