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Another museum dedicated to the memory of one of the most famous groups of all times, the Beatles, opened in Hamburg in May, fourty-nine years since the band, at that time with five members and without Ringo Starr, first played in a strip club in Germany’s second largest city.
The Beatle-mania museum is enormous - five floors of artefacts and interactive exhibits and is in the same area of Hamburg where the band appeared during five different opputunities between 1960 and 1962.
The Beatles - at that time John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best - first went on the stage at the Indra club on August 17, 1960. Lennon later said that he was born in Liverpool, but he grew up in Hamburg. This was probably where he experimented with drugs for the first time.
The band played rock’n'roll covers for hours and hours and in four different Hamburg clubs, an experience which helped creating the foundations for their talent that would later make them universaly known. It was also in Hamburg that the band first performed with Ringo Starr, who was at the time drummer with another English band.