The Beatles In Hamburg live at the Bambi Kino, play at the Indra & Kaiserkeller
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2022
- The Beatles left Liverpool for Hamburg in August 1960 to appear live on stage on the Grosse Freiheit. Follow David Bedford as he takes a walk down the Grosse Freiheit to see where the Beatles lived at the Bambi Kino, and where they performed live at the Indra Club and the Kaiserkeller.
John, Paul, George, Stuart and Pete took to the stage on 17th August 1960 at the Indra Club, before it was closed down. They then moved to the Kaiserkellerwhere they were joined by Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
The Beatles definitely grew up in Hamburg, as John Lennon said.
David is using his latest book "The Beatles Fab Four Cities", written with Richard Porter and Susan Ryan, to get around Hamburg.
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Thanks David for making all your great videos on the Beatles. It means so much to us fans that can't travel to these sites in person. Thanks again!
+starskystar Hamburg was great, accompanied by Roger Appleton, as we explored the city. Happy to do what we do.
And how close everything was there.
Great little informative tour, good to see where the Beatles stayed and played can't wait for part two ! 👍👍👍🎸😎🎸
+Beeetle Boy Thank you - it is a great city and fascinating to trace the Beatles roots too.
Thanks for the tour.🖐️🌝👍
All the best from Sweden 🇸🇪
+Eric Johanson A pleasure. best wishes from Liverpool
Very interesting.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing this Beatles history with the world. I love it.
+one eyed monster It is our pleasure, thank you.
Thanks a lot! As a Beatles fan and history lover, videos like this make my day.
Thank you, so glad you're enjoying them.
The Kaiserkeller has changed so much since 1963, when I was there
+Graham Sclater Who did you play there with? I know you've played with some great artists in your time!
@@BrightmoonLiverpool The Birds and Bees at the Kaiserkeller and Star Club. The Manchester Playboys at the Top Ten and Star Club, both, several times. Plus other clubs in Hamburg.....
@@grahamsclater9988 You must have some memories! Do you have any photos inside the clubs?
@@BrightmoonLiverpool Only in the Star Club - a fraulein stole my case of photographs and I only have those I have found online or were sent back to my mother by our fans.
My first novel, "Ticket to Ride" is based on my time in Hamburg and playing across Germany during the sixties.
I can't believe i'm seeing this again. i went to Hamburg on a Beatles tour of London, Liverpool and Hamburg in 1986. Horst Fascher (the bouncer from the Kaiserkeller) was our guide in Hamburg. He showed us all of these sights. It was my first time in Europe and I was awestruck. I always wanted to see the Hamburg sights that I had read about. I want to thank you so much for this.
It is our pleasure. Not many fans get to visit Hamburg so we wanted to bring Hamburg to the fans. I was hoping to meet up with Horst, but he isn't in the best of health at the moment. Hopefully next time. Glad you like the video, with part 2 coming this weekend.
I'm sorry that Horst isn't in the best of health. He's a very nice man and a wonderful tour guide. He told us details about things that only someone who was actually there would know. He took us to where the Star Club was (there had been a fire). He showed us where the stage was and the corner where John would be singing. Later that day, I took a walk by myself and took a little chunk from the stage as my own souvenir (Don't tell anybody - I still have it)
That's brilliant stuff, thank you. Looking forward to Part 2.
+Martin Kunert Thanks Martin
This video is one of the best yet and look forward to part 2 ! Most likely will not visit Hamburg so David thanks for such an enriching tour of the streets where the Beatles worked and mastered their craft - wonderful !! Wondering if the Kaiserkeller has a plaque for them like the Indra does? Thanks for all you do for us Beatles fans !!!
Thank you, it is a pleasure. The Kaiserkeller has a list of band names on the front including the Beatles.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool just like the Freudenhaus, or Puff, that is now where the Star Club used to be.
Brilliant David ' can't wait for Part 2.
+Ralph West Thank you - part 2 coming soon!
Really enjoyed seeing this.
Thank you.
+Vive Viveka Thank you
I want to make a correction on something I said - Horst was the bouncer at the Star Club I believe, not the Kaiserkeller. He's even introduced on one of the songs on "the Beatles Live at the Star Club" album.
I think by the Star Club he was also involved in booking the bands too. But he did act as a minder for the British musicians earlier.
Excellent walkabout David...Great to see the original venues etc. Puts the Hamburg locations in context really well, thank you👍
+Kate Peters Thanks Kate - Davy B 😁
I am in Hamburg on Tuesday
Enjoy it. Are you doing a Beatles tour?
@@BrightmoonLiverpool I have been before, but I am doing Hamburg for a couple of days, then Bad Doberan for a Zappa Festival (Zappanale) and then back to Hamburg a couple of nights and then back to Merseyside.
Thank you very much! We love what you do! Greetings from MX
+PePe Sandoval Thank you. Greetings from Liverpool
thank you, and waiting for the part 2, great video!
+lalomalpica Thank you
Grazie davvero per aver aggiunto alla storia dei Beatles uno dei capitoli più affascinanti delle loro radici. Sono stato ad Amburgo e credo che ci tornerò. Grazie ancora Stefano Cipolat 💕
+Stefano Cipolat Grazie Stefano. Spero ti sia piaciuta Amburgo? È una bella città. Tornerò anche io. Grazie dal Liverpool.
I really liked your video. Thanks for posting. I wonder if anyone noticed that you gave us a quick preview of the Star Club location during the Kaiserkeller story. Sort of an unspoken 'coming attraction' for part 2? :- ) Looking forward to the next episode. 👍🏻
+Mr. Joe Just a hint! All the clubs were so close to each other it is amazing.
Great to see that you made it to Germany! Fascinating video! I knew that George had been deported, but you filled in with the details. Too bad that their employer was harsh with them. But they weren't exactly angels. Part of growing up, I suppose. You're descriptions almost make me feel like I'm there. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to part 2!
+Jeff Wier The thing about the deportations is that they had a contract with Koschmider and thought it was ok to break it. To be fair to Koschmider, he took the risk to bring them to Hamburg, so no wonder he wasn't happy! Naughty Beatles!! 😂
Looks just like Bourbon Street in New Orleans, same vibe !
+Peter Browne I think all of these great port cities have that vibe, and there you'll find the music
Wish I'd have been there with you. I've been to all the places in Liverpool, Penny Lane, Menlove Avenue, Strawberry Fields, Forthlin Road, love your films in Hamburg where the German audience demanding they "make a show."i think the German audience pushed them to be better, i think that's what made them.
Try and get to Hamburg if you can - incredible city and it made The Beatles being there.
I have been there a view years ago.
Really sad is what has happened to the Star Club.
Funfact surely of almost no importance to Beatles Fans is that
when you come into Große Freiheit from the other end, which is from Reeperbahn, one of the first buildings you will pass on the left hand side is
"Große Freiheit Nummer 7".
That was the title of a German movie, or actually film, as we say in German.
The star of that movie was Hans Albers. A famous actor in the time of the Nazis and later until the time the Beatles came up.
It is still a dance club.
Thanks for the video....
+Michael Hüttig I have heard of Hans Albers, a famous actor. I must have a look for that film. Was it set on Grosse Freiheit I assume?
@@BrightmoonLiverpool yes, mainly at that venue Nummer 7.
But I was a little boy when I saw it with my grandfather who was a big fan.
I can't therefore really remember or judge if it was done at the original places or if it was set up in the studio.
But the name of that street was planted in my brain long before I read my first Beatles biography written by Hunter Davis and stolen with just the help of my little brother in the grocery store down the street were I grew up near Stuttgart.
Man, I was nervous and proud at the same time, hahaha..
Before anybody judges too harshly on a 13 year old boy, they left unsold magazines and books on the doorstep of the shop and we went there in the hope for some Asterix or at least Mickey Mouse.
I got something way better though.
Read it twice in the next two weeks.
Albers, btw, was kind of a German John Wayne. You know, this good hearted but bad mooded guy who was able to turn things into something good in the end.
Looks like it's all rebuilt,,,, der kreig ,,,🥵👍
Indra, Kaiserkeller and Top Ten buildings are still there, though the Star Club burned down decades ago.
Thanks for the video - but there are a lot of unneccessairy errors in your story. Everything had been made clear in my book MACH SCHAU.
+Thorsten Knublauch Thanks Thorsten for your help.
No doubt whatsoever Koschmider would have been paying off the Police generally. It's how things worked back in the day. Getting leverage once he decided to act was a fait accompli.
Personally, I think the boys were lucky he decided only just to have them deported in exacting revenge. Walking the beat in our seedy district as a young man, I've known nightclub owners who would have dealt with such a matter differently, and have. Their careers and future fame might well have ended right there had Koschmider instead decided to take have them persuaded of the error of their ways by the local enforcers for hire. I don't think they would have started with a hammer to the hands as Koschmider would have wanted them to continue playing at his clubs, but given Lennon's mouth, I could see that escalating rapidly to having become a distinct possibility. With Lennon's and possibly Harrison's fingers and hands turned into a bloody mass of flesh and bone Wiener, or in this case Hamburg Schnitzel, The Beatles future could have ended right there. Fortunately as fate would have it, Koschmider was a 'softy' and they got lucky.
Ouch 🥵🌿