Reeperbahn
Legendary nightlife boulevard laid out by rope makers, later the training ground of a young rock band from Liverpool.
This guide to Hamburg's Reeperbahn centers on club owner Bruno Koschmider and the five broke young musicians from Liverpool he booked into the Indra and Kaiserkeller in 1960, working them nightly with his favorite phrase, mach schau. It follows the falling-out when the band left for a rival club down the street, the Top Ten, and what happened to Paul McCartney, Pete Best and George Harrison afterward. You'll also hear about bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, who stayed behind for a photography student named Astrid Kirchherr and never played with the band again. The street itself was laid out four centuries earlier by rope makers coiling ship's rigging toward the harbor.
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