The Beatles in Hamburg : The Stories, the Scene and How It All Began (Paperback)

When the fledgling Beatles went to Hamburg in 1960, they had no idea that their world--and music--was going to change forever.

Associating with gangsters and prostitutes and sleeping in appalling conditions behind a cinema screen, the Beatles pounded out beat music in strip clubs and dens of vice like the Indra, the Kaiserkeller, the Top Ten, and the Star-Club.

In the process, they changed their way of playing, got arrested and deported, wore black leather, lost their bass player, sacked their drummer, developed a vast repertoire of raucous rock n roll songs, and fashioned a new hairstyle.