Book contents
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Chapter 1 Britain at Mid-Century and the Rise of the Beatles
- Chapter 2 The Beatles in Liverpool
- Chapter 3 The Beatles on the Reeperbahn
- Chapter 4 Brian Epstein, Beatlemania’s Architect
- Chapter 5 “Love, Love, Love”: Tracing the Contours of the Beatles’ Inner Circle
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Beatles on the Reeperbahn
from Part I - Beatle People and Beatle Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Chapter 1 Britain at Mid-Century and the Rise of the Beatles
- Chapter 2 The Beatles in Liverpool
- Chapter 3 The Beatles on the Reeperbahn
- Chapter 4 Brian Epstein, Beatlemania’s Architect
- Chapter 5 “Love, Love, Love”: Tracing the Contours of the Beatles’ Inner Circle
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
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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- The Beatles in Context , pp. 28 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020