Beatles 1960 Kaiserkeller Poster - Hamburg, Germany – Totally Genuine & Authentic, Pt. 1
A valuable, historic Beatles German concert poster advertising their appearance at Hamburg’s Kaiserkeller night club in late 1960.
This piece represents the earliest known such advertising poster using “The Beatles,” the name they finally arrived at after trying several others (such as The Quarry Men and Long John & The Silver Beatles).
This Beatles Hamburg poster board was not printed conventionally, it was hand-painted on a piece of cardboard.
There are two similar genuine examples that are much larger and were done on paper, but this is the only one near this size and done on board.
This particular Beatles Kaiserkeller show poster has a basic yellow background, whereas the two larger door signs have white and dark blue backgrounds.
I show you images of both of those door signs at one point in my video… but that’s over in part two. I digress.
This Beatles German window display advertises the talents of no fewer than SIX original Beatle members… can you name all six?
There’s John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, of course; and then there’s Stuart Sutcliffe, drummer Pete Best and – let’s not forget – drummer Ringo Starr in Rory Storm & The Hurricanes!
So this Beatles Hamburg window poster is one of only two Beatles concert posters ever to feature SIX present and future mop-tops.
In this video, once again, I show you a photo of the only other poster that has all six boys playing on it (Feb. 14, 1961 in Liverpool).
It’s spectacular that this Beatles Kaiserkeller show placard says “England – Liverpool” along the bottom. Really identifying where they’re from.
This is the only one of their concert posters I can ever remember fully spelling out “Liverpool” like that… all their standard Liverpool concert posters would just identify what part of town they were playing in (like New Brighton).
Even though we call this a Beatles 1960 concert sign, it’s really a “Rock ’n Roll music” advertising poster, with the actual bands being secondary.
Even if the two groups had gained a strong foothold in England by now – which they hadn’t – nobody in Hamburg would have ever heard of them. The audience was there to hear cover versions of famous American rock songs, period.
Artist Erwin Ross painted this Beatles German street poster, little knowing at the time what a masterpiece of history he was creating.
So if you have anything at all that’s been printed in any fashion, it’s not original, it’s one of the thousands of existing souvenir after-prints. The three originals are all unique, hand-painted works.
I love the way the bright, light blue “Rock ’n Roll” jumps out at you from this cardboard Beatles Hamburg poster. The font is just great.
Artist Ross made very effective use of rotating his three word colors: blue, red and black. And then you have “Rory Storm and his Hurican” floating in a white cloud. Very nice.
Although the months of “October, November and December” are listed across the top of this Beatles Kaiserkeller window card in German, the boys never made it to the month of December.
They played there during October and November, but then quit the place in disgust, and George was deported back home for being under age anyway.
If only a Beatles 1960 placard existed for their short stints before this at the Indra Club and Top Ten Club in Hamburg. Wouldn’t that be amazing!
Then they moved on to the Star Club, where there was a full-sized Hamburg Beatles Star Club poster made and used, with their name in tiny print at the bottom.
Either one could be considered a Beatles German in-person poster, but I’d take this one hands down, any day, over the Star-Club concert poster.
For one thing, that one was printed on paper, and is a drab one-color design. This thing is beautiful with its flashy four colors.
Given the fact that the group was virtually unknown, it makes sense that you hardly ever see a real Beatles Hamburg billboard.
For one thing, they were just a club band… not out there giving concerts. So there was no call for conventional concert posters, most of the time. Just a sign here & there.
It’s just a shame this Beatles Kaiserkeller concert placard wasn’t printed or produced in any kind of quantity… that eliminates you & me from being able to “collect” or obtain one.
It’s a museum piece all the way, and should be treated practically as a piece of art, rather than just a concert poster.
This piece of Beatles Hamburg concert memorabilia is proudly presented to you by lifelong Beatles fanatic and collector Pete Howard – me. I can be emailed at pete@postercentral.com, or phoned on my cell at (805) 540-0020.
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Beatles platz in Hamburg, Kaiserkeller bzw Grosse Freiheit 36, Reeperbahn.
this is the situation of Reeperbahn Beatles Platz on February 2012
The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962
es un álbum doble que contiene actuaciones en vivo de The Beatles, grabadas a finales de diciembre de 1962 en el Star-Club durante su última estancia en Hamburgo. El álbum fue lanzado en 1977 en dos versiones diferentes, con un total de treinta canciones de la banda.
Las actuaciones fueron grabadas en una grabadora casera, dando como resultado una grabación de baja calidad. Ted Kingsize Taylor comenzó a investigar sobre la posible comercialización de las cintas en 1973. Las cintas fueron compradas finalmente por Paul Murphy y sometidas a un tratamiento de ampliación de audio para mejorar el sonido, lo que condujo al lanzamiento del álbum en 1977.
Aunque la mala calidad del sonido limita su atractivo comercial, el álbum proporciona una visión del grupo durante el periodo posterior a la unión de Ringo Starr, pero antes de la aparición de la Beatlemanía. The Beatles no tuvieron éxito en prohibir legalmente el primer lanzamiento del álbum; las grabaciones fueron reeditadas de varias maneras hasta 1998, cuando se le otorgaron los derechos de las actuaciones a The Beatles.
Algunas de las últimas actuaciones por parte de The Beatles en el Star-Club fueron grabadas por el director de escena del club, Adrian Barber, para Ted Kingsize Taylor. Barber utilizó un magnetófono casero Grundig a una velocidad de cinta de 3¾ pulgadas por segundo, con un sencillo micrófono colocado en frente del escenario.Taylor, líder de The Dominoes (que también estaban tocando en el club), dijo que John Lennon acordó verbalmente con el grupo que iban a ser grabados a cambio de que Taylor les regalara una cerveza durante su actuación.
1- I Saw Her Standing There : 0:19 McCartney/Lennon
2- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You): 2:39 Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs
3-Roll Over Beethoven: 5:22 Chuck Berry
4-Hippy Hippy Shake : 7:45 Chan Romero
5-Sweet Little Sixteen: 9:34 Chuck Berry
6-Lend Me Your Comb : 12:58 Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman
7-Your Feet's Too Big: 14:50 Ada Benson, Fred Fisher
8-Where Have You Been All My Life?: 17:09 Barry Mann ,Cynthia Weil
9-Twist and Shout: 19:05 Phil Medley, Bert Russell
10-Mr. Moonlight: 21:10 Roy Lee Johnson
11-A Taste of Honey : 23:50 Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow
12-Bésame Mucho : 25:45 Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar
13-Reminiscing : 28:24 King Curtis
14-Till There Was You: 30:05 Meredith Willson
15-Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby: 32:12 Carl Perkins
16-Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey: 35:00 Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Richard Penniman
17-Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees): 37:40 Eddie Fontaine, Cirino Colacrai, Diane Lampert, John Gluck
18-To Know Her Is to Love Her: 39:11 Phil Spector
19-Little Queenie: 42:27Chuck Berry
20-Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It): 46:30 Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner
21-Sheila: 48:32 Tommy Roe
22-Be-Bop-A-Lula: 50:30 Gene Vincent, Bill Davis
Fred Fascher, el camarero del Star-Club, fue invitado para ser el vocalista líder
23-Hallelujah I Love Her So: 53:00 Ray Charles
Horst Fascher, el mánager del Star-Club, fue invitado para ser el vocalista líder
24-Ask Me Why: 55:11 Lennon, McCartney
25-Red Sails in the Sunset: 57:57Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams
26-Matchbox: 1:00:38 Perkins
27-I'm Talking About You: 1:03:15 Berry
28-Shimmy Like Kate: 1:05:20 Armand Piron, Fred Smith, Cliff Goldsmith
Basada en los arreglos de la canción I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate de The Olympics
29-Long Tall Sally: 1:07:37 Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Penniman
30-I Remember You: 1:09:26 Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
Despues de I Remember You The Beatles Volvieron a Inglaterra para Grabar su Single Love Me Do y no volverían a Hamburgo hasta 1966
Kaiserkeller - Hamburg, early 1960
Filmed by club owner Bruno Koschmider
# 35 Der Tag, an dem... der Star Club seine Pforten öffnete
An einem Freitag, dem 13., wird Musikgeschichte geschrieben. Striplokal-Besitzer Manfred Weissleder verwandelt ein altes Kino in einen Rock-Schuppen. Am 13. April 1962 wird der Star Club eröffnet. Abgesehen von Elvis Presley und den Rolling Stones haben dort alle Weltstars der 60er Jahre dort gespielt. Die Beatles wurden dort berühmt.
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Lennon said: We had to play for hours and hours on end. Every song lasted twenty minutes and had twenty solos in it. That's what improved the playing. There was nobody to copy from. We played what we liked best and the Germans liked it as long as it was loud.[30] The Beatles had been used to simply standing still when they had performed in Liverpool, but Koschmider would come to the front of the stage and loudly shout “Mach schau, mach schau!” (make [a] show or, more idiomatically, put on a show for the customers). Harrison explained that this prompted Lennon to “dance around like a gorilla, and we’d all knock our heads together.”[47] As Best had been the only one to take O-Level German at school, he could communicate with Koschmider and the clientele better than the rest of the group,[48] and was invited to sing a speciality number called Peppermint Twist (while McCartney played the drums) but Best complained that he always felt uncomfortable being at the front of the stage.[49] Willie Limpinski, Koschmider's business manager, decided that the club would attract more customers if it presented continuous live music.[50]
Williams warned the Beatles about the competition they would face by playing in the same club as the Hurricanes by saying, You'd better pull your socks up because Rory Storm and the Hurricanes are coming in, and you know how good they are. They're going to knock you for six.[30] In early October 1960, Storm and the Hurricanes were free to travel to Hamburg, replacing Derry and the Seniors at the Kaiserkeller. They arrived in Hamburg on 1 October 1960, having negotiated to be paid more than the Seniors or the Beatles.[51] They played five or six 90-minute sets every day, alternating with the Beatles.[4][52] They were appalled at the living conditions the Beatles and other groups like Howie Casey and the Seniors (who were sleeping in one room at the back of the Kaiserkeller) had to put up with,[53] so they booked into Hamburg's Seamens' Mission.[54]
According to McCartney, Sutcliffe was a typical art student, with bad skin and pimples, but his reputation grew after he began wearing tight trousers and dark Ray-Ban sunglasses.[62] Sutcliffe's high spot was singing Love Me Tender, which drew more applause than when the other Beatles sang, increasing the friction between himself and McCartney. Lennon also started to criticise Sutcliffe; making jokes about Sutcliffe's size and playing.[63] While Sutcliffe is often described in Beatles' biographies as appearing very uncomfortable onstage, and often playing with his back to the audience, Best denies this, recalling Sutcliffe as usually good-natured and animated before an audience.[64]
The Beatles steadily improved during their time in Hamburg, and this was noticed by other musicians who were there at the time. McCartney recalled, We got better and better and other groups started coming to watch us. The accolade of accolades was when Sheridan would come in from the Top Ten (the big club where we aspired to go) or when Rory Storm or Ringo [Starr] would hang around to watch us. ‘What'd I Say’ was always the one that really got them. The song was often played by the group, once being played for 90 minutes non-stop, with group members walking off stage to wash and drink before returning. Sutcliffe wrote a letter to his mother saying, We have improved a thousand-fold since our arrival and Allan Williams, who is here at the moment, tells us that there is no group in Liverpool to touch us.
Hamburg: Big Beat At The Star Club (1964)
Good shots of teenagers in the Star Club in Hamburg jumping and jiving about, screaming and shaking their heads. It's time for searching the best german Beatleheads.
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Hamburg, Germany.
VS Good shots of teenagers in the Star Club in Hamburg jumping and jiving about, screaming and shaking their heads. VS Young musical groups on stage entertaining the youngsters with their rhythm and blues and rock and roll music. It seems to be kind of German rock and roll band competition.
(Comb.F.G.) Old record suggests material dates from around 13/09/1964.
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1959 Hamburg, Kaiserkeller, Bambi Cinema, Teenagers, Late 1950s, Early 1960s
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1959 Hamburg, rare home movie footage shot outside the Kaiserkeller and the Bambi Cinema. Cool teenagers hanging out on the streets
The Beatles sites in Hamburg
In this film are shown the sites in Hamburg where The Early Beatles Played and lived in the years 1960 - 1962
1959 Hamburg Kaiserkeller Bambi Kino
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The Scandal Experience Kaiserkeller Hamburg 14/9-2016 #sceu2016
Scandal playing; Everybody Say Yeah, Morning Sun, Onegai Navigation, Shojo S (with intro incl Haruna guitarsolo), Shunkan Sentimental and Scandal Baby.
Thank you Haruna, Mami, Tomomi and Rina, the whole Team Scandal, The Kaiserkeller and all the Scandal-fans for the concert of my life.
Amazing band band with amazing fans :-)
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Reeperbahn & Grosse Freiheit, early 1960s
1960s Hamburg, Germany, HD from 16mm
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The Beatles Hamburg 1960 - 62
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