In their early days, the Beatles played a rundown strip club here and honed their performing skills before breaking through in Europe and later the United States. Now a museum dedicated to the group has opened 49 years after they first took the stage at the Indra club.
The museum, called Beatlemania, contains five floors of artifacts and interactive exhibits and is in the same seedy Reeperbahn area where the band played on five separate occasions between 1960 and 1962. At the time, the group, consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best, would belt out rock 'n' roll covers for 10 or 12 hours at a time in four different Hamburg clubs. The band first performed here with Ringo Starr, then the drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes before he replaced Best. Sutcliffe later left the group and died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.
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