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from Part I - Beatle People and Beatle Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
I was born in Liverpool and have lived there all my life. In 1963/64, my friends and I had a sense of pride that the Beatles had come from our home streets and that they often spoke of the city in their interviews. We knew that they had been to Hamburg but we thought that their sound had been formed in the clubs and church halls around Merseyside, building their repertoire from the R&B singles that they heard in shops like Brian Epstein’s NEMS. Having interviewed the Merseybeat musicians extensively for my programs on BBC Radio Merseyside, I decided in 2002 to make a series about the Beatles in Hamburg. It was a revelation as I discovered that many of those who went to the beat clubs in St. Pauli thought that those long working hours had made the Beatles and also that the rough surroundings had added an edge to their work.
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