Indra Club 64
Red-light-district club where a Liverpool band's brutal nightly grind forged their live act.
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This guide to Indra Club 64 in Hamburg puts you back on its stage on the seventeenth of August, 1960, when four terrified teenagers from Liverpool, including John Lennon and Paul McCartney, played to a handful of sex workers and their customers in a converted Reeperbahn strip club. It follows club owner Bruno Koschmider's nightly demand, shouted from the floor, that they mach schau, put on a show, and the grueling sets that stretched to six a night. Stand at the foot of that same stage where four terrified boys first heard that order.
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