Beatles-Platz
Circular plaza paved like a vinyl record, ringed by steel silhouettes of a legendary band's early lineup.
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This guide to Beatles-Platz in Hamburg puts you inside the empty steel silhouettes on the Reeperbahn, where a nineteen-year-old John Lennon and four other broke teenagers from Liverpool arrived in August 1960 for a booking arranged by club promoter Bruno Koschmider. It follows his demand, shouted from the back of the room, that they entertain drunk sailors and dockworkers for hours on end, night after night, across a run of clubs from the Indra to the Star Club. You'll hear about a new drummer named Ringo Starr sitting in with them before he officially joined. Stand on the record-shaped pavement and picture the crowd Koschmider demanded they win over.
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