If you were to ask John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison what made the band as great as it was — and it’s a question drummer Ringo Starr would be able to answer from his own experience — the ...

The Beatles grew up playing several residencies in Hamburg, Germany. And not just because George Harrison lost his virginity while his bandmates watched. The hours-long sets each night refined their ...

Adrian Bridge goes on the trail of the Beatles, 50 years after the then unknown teenagers headed to the German port. It is not hard to see how five young lads from Liverpool who had barely been abroad ...

Brow Beat is following the Beatles in “real time,” 50 years later, from their first chart-topper to their final rooftop concert. In our latest weekly installment, we check in with the group as they ...

Paul McCartney and the rest of The Beatles grew tremendously as musicians while performing in Hamburg. While they all acknowledged that the experience shaped them into better performers, it wasn’t ...

Not many people know about the role Hamburg played in the early mythology of The Beatles. The lads may have hailed from Liverpool, laid down their records in Abbey Road Studios in London, and ...

This is a multi-anniversary year for The Beatles. John Lennon was killed 30 years ago. The band split 40 years ago. And it was 50 years ago - before their first recording - that the boys first played ...

Hamburg has long been a thriving port. And ports need a lot of ropes. So, ropemaking was an important trade in the 17th century, when those who made them chose a long stretch of ground in the St Pauli ...

George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon in Hamburg in 1960. Photo: DPA The Beatles might have hailed from Liverpool, but the band that changed the world got its big break in Hamburg. David ...