MEET THE BEATLES!

Despite John Paul and George gigging as The Quarrymen and Johnny and the Moondogs in England, they first played under the iconic name of The Beatles in Germany.

Alongside Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums, they honed their skills at the Indra Club, Hamburg in 1960 for the equivalent of £2.50 each a day. They returned two years later to play at the Star Club on the city’s famously rowdy Reeperbahn.

John Lennon famously later said: “I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.”