#hamburg era

[get-back-homeward]

Anyway, we got back to Liverpool, and all the groups there were doing the sort of Shadows type of stuff. And we came back, leather jackets, and jeans and funny hair, 'mach-ing schau,' which went down quite well. —George Harrison

From the Beatles interview in The Mersey Sound, filmed August 28, 1963 at BBC's Dickenson Road studio in Manchester

#george harrison #the mersey sound #thebeatlesedit #mach schau #hey hey bug tumblrinas i finally figured out a way to make semipassable gifs ahhhhh #VLC + GIMP i knew there had to be a way but dang that was more complicated than every tutorial ever suggested #i blame my SFF vidding post i really really wanted to get the movement of that vid #and then got fixated on the paint pouring #but it was this video that got me realizing my problem the frames were backwards #haha i got excited getting two done and then looked at it like 6 more #started it for the gorilla comment and georges little mach schau impression #but its adorable how unpolished he is for tv still here squinty and looking all over the place #hamburg era #young george #my gifs #1963 #gorilla suit #george speaks

[ceofjohnlennon]

The Beatles' first pet: George Harrison's vomit. ㅡ From the book "One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles In Time" by Craig Brown.

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #pete best #60s #1961 #hamburg era #the beatles in time #my:read

[nevereverywhere]

Drawn by Paul for Klaus

#hamburg era #paul mccartney #the beatles #where we burnt condom #klaus voormann #bambi kino

[justlikedylansmrjones]

anyways heres this shitty little poem i wrote about the beatles in hamburg, theres no title because who cares. Enjoy=)

you are a drop of britain in that german sea

your english flesh still too raw, virgin

but the baltic wind will toughen it up.

the playing might give you callouses on your fingertips

but those streets will build callouses over your inhibitions

it will open your eyes

but close your mind

tighten your shoulders

but loosen your groin.

the Union Jack is your blanket

and the crumbling of the old empire

fuels your rabid youth.

the ink well in your mind

will make the world lucky for you.

#john lennon #paul mccartney #the beatles #george harrison #ringo starr #1960s #hamburgerabeatles #hamburg era #teddy boys #stuart sutcliffe #beatles in hamburg

[heartsinthebasement]

Twenty years apart - Hamburg 1960 & New York 1980

#he really was starting over #john lennon #the beatles #hamburg era #annie liebovitz #astrid kircherr

[throughtheseasons]

U-Bahn Shots

#u bahn #hamburg #film photography #analog #my photography #my photos #photoblog #analog photography #filmisnotdead #hamburg era #ishootfilm #sunset #clouds #sky

[eidennon]

Animated Hamburg era John Lennon because I can’t keep it for myself

#john lennon #hamburg era #teen #young john lennon #hamburg #1960s #astrid kirchherr #john #the beatles #the beatles john

[theworldatwar]

A British Royal Airforce Avro Lancaster seen above the German city of Hamburg - Jan 1943

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #avro lancaster #lancaster bomber #lancaster #royal air force #raf #1943 #Hamburg #germany

[smeagles]

Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg 3.14.2011 | manuanya

#gerard way #mikey way #my chemical romance #mcr #danger days era #mcr grosse freiheit #mcr grosse freiheit 2011 #mcr hamburg #mcr hamburg 2011 #my post

[its-tortle]

eras tickets trade!!

halli hallo german swifties (or swifties attending eras in germany) <3 my friends and i have managed to get eight pit tickets for the eras tour in hamburg — but four of these are for night 1, and four are for night 2. we are thus looking to trade with anyone else who has pit tickets for either night, so that the six of us can go together!!

*obviously willing to trade only matching numbers of tickets (e.g. three for three) and across the dates (trading 23rd tickets for 24th tickets)

dm me if interested!!!

boosts are appreciated :)

#have no idea if this will find the right people but i must try lmao #taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour tickets #eras tour hamburg

[get-back-homeward]

Davidwache Police Station | Painting by Klaus Voormann Prior to being deported, Paul McCartney spends a night in the Davidwache police station.

In the meantime, the final four could start playing [at the Top Ten club] now, and move themselves into the bunk-bed accommodation at the top of the building.c Tony Sheridan was already here, possibly others too, and the Beatles were welcome to shoehorn themselves in. It was neither the Ritz nor the pits. John was the first to move. Then Paul and Pete went back to the Bambi to grab their gear.

The place was in near darkness, as usual. They had to strike a match to see their way about … and then they decided to leave Koschmider a little gift. Pete had a few “spunk bags,” and he and Paul had the idea to hang them on nails in the wall in the long concrete passageway and set light to them. “The place was dank and dark,” says Pete. “They spluttered, they stank, and OK, maybe they singed a tiny bit of tapestry on the wall. It caused nothing but a little smoke and a few scorch marks and then they went out.”41 It was the ultimate fuck you, Bruno, or so they thought.

They got to play one night in the Top Ten, and it seems to have been a good one, pulling business away from the Kaiserkeller, but it was just this one night. Having been shafted once by Eckhorn, when he’d prized away the Jets and Tony Sheridan from the Kaiserkeller, Koschmider wasn’t going to sit back and let it happen again. He might also have guessed the Beatles would make some grand gesture for his “benefit”—they could even have hinted of it—because an inspection was made of the Bambi’s rooms very quickly. When the stinkende qualmende Piedeltüten were found, he decided to form the view it was an attempt to burn down his cinema, and informed the police.

The chronology of events over the next twenty-four hours is rife with confusion and contradiction, but may have gone something like this. Paul was picked up by the police while walking along the Reeperbahn, taken by car to the Davidwache police station (two hundred meters from the Top Ten) and locked in a cell. Pete and John were also arrested. Koschmider didn’t know which of them was responsible for the “attempted arson,” so the Polizei rounded them all up. As Stuart wrote in a letter back to Liverpool a few days later:

I am living in the lap of luxury and contentment. Better than the cell I spent a night in last week. I was innocent this time though accused of arson—that is, setting fire to the Kino (cinema) where we sleep. I arrive at the club and am informed that the whole of Hamburg Police are looking for me. The rest of the band are already locked up, so smiling and very brave on the arm of Astrid, I proceed to give myself up. At this time I’m not aware of the charge. All my belongings, including spectacles, are taken away and I’m led to a cell where without food or drink I sat for six hours on a very wooden bench, the door shut very tight. I fall asleep at two in the morning. I signed a confession written in Deutsch that I knew nothing about a fire, and they let me go.42

John was also allowed to go. It was now clear who’d done the dirty deed, and for them the ordeal continued; Paul would always remember the little one-way peephole in the door of their detention room, through which he sensed they were watched. It seems he and Pete were then allowed to leave, but a few hours later—early the following morning—they were dragged out of their Top Ten bunk beds and interviewed a second time. Pete suggests they were taken to Hamburg’s main prison at Fühlsbuttel, Paul remembers it being “the Rathaus … it doesn’t mean rat house, it just felt like one.” They were interviewed by an official of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal CID), one Herr Gerkins, and it was definitely inadvisable to snigger. Instead, they requested permission to contact the British Embassy, like people did in the films, and were refused; then they were taken for a car ride. “We tried our best to persuade him it was nothing,” Paul says, “and he said, ‘OK fine, well you go with these men.’ And that was the last we knew of it. We just headed out with these couple of coppers. And we were getting a bit ‘Oh dear, this could be the concentration camps’—you never know. It hadn’t been that long [since the war].”43

Criminal charges were not pressed, but Koschmider, inevitably, had the last laugh. It wasn’t a camp to which Paul and Pete were being taken, but the airport—and in handcuffs, according to Stuart. They were being deported, and banned from reentering Germany unless they lodged an appeal within a month. Auf Wiedersehen, Piedels! Handed their passports at the gate, they were put on the London plane, set to fly for the first time in their lives. It then got even tastier for Koschmider because Eckhorn was billed for at least part of the cost of the plane tickets. Bruno must have been rubbing his hands with joy.

—Tune In, Ch. 17 (Oct 1–Dec 31, 1960)

Sources: 41 Author interview, March 7, 1985. Pete says (Beatle!, p72) there were four rubbers and always speaks of them in plural, Paul speaks of one. 42 December 12, 1960, sent to Ken Horton. This letter provides the only suggestion that John was arrested in the roundup; he’s not mentioned in other accounts. 43 Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, June 12, 1979. Rathaus means “city hall.” Instead of the main prison at Fühlsbuttel, it’s more likely Paul and Pete were taken to the remand prison near St. Pauli called Untersuchungsgefängnis (easier done than said).

#seeing the hq version of this painting and noticing the detail on pauls face #the dramaaaaaa #hamburg era #1960 #december 1960 #technically nov 30 is the fire #reading tune in #november 1960 #the image of paul and pete asking to speak to their embassy like in the movies sends me lmao #this whole episode is so amazing i cannot believe every biopic has just passed up on it #its got everything you want dumb dirty boys who get a big head the second they move up but not before they move out #an entire night in german prison cell and then questioned by some bigshot who has them shaking in their boots #john's first night in a prison cell over something he didn't even do #paul never ever admitting he did anything wrong bc individual sense of justice since age two #meanwhile poor george is being deported #stu's spectacles are taken away---wait he wore glasses?! #letters #top ten club #bundeskrinalamt (federal CID) i believe would be akin to being interviewed by the FBI in the US

[ceofjohnlennon]

"John is an original. New ideas just come to him. Paul has great originality, but he's also an arranger. He can get things done, which John can't, or can't be bothered trying. They do need, and they don't need, each other. Either is true. Paul is as talented a composer as John. They would easily have done well on their own. The most amazing thing about them is that by coming together they haven't become the same, they haven't been influenced by each other. They are each still different, each is still himself. Paul still does sweet music, like "Michelle", that sort of melody. John writes bumpy music. Working so long together hasn't rubbed out the differences, which I think is amazing."

Astrid Kirchherr for Hunter Davies, 1967. ㅡ From the book "The Beatles: The Only Authorized Biography (Updated Edition)" by Hunter Davies.

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #60s #hamburg era #astrid kirchherr #lennon-mccartney #the only authorized biography #my:read #cute point of view

[nevereverywhere]

»ageless children, sexes indistinguishable, tight-trousered, stamping about, only the smell of sweat intimating animality. Long-haired; weird feminine faces; bashing their instruments, and emitting nerveless sounds into microphones. In conversation rather touching in a way, their faces like Renaissance carvings of saints or Blessed Virgins.«

Malcolm Muggeridge about his first encounter with The Beatles at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, 1961

(From One Two Three Four by Craig Brown)

#blessed virgins #weird feminine faces #the beatles #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #hamburg era #1961 #top ten club

[justlikedylansmrjones]

Seeing how much Paul managed to make in one night, John and Stu take to the streets but what happens when someone wants to pick them up… together.

#john lennon #stuart sutcliffe #the beatles #Hamburg era #ao3 #a03 fanfic #fanfiction

[kinsfaun]

Stu, Paul, George, John & Pete, Hamburg.

#always reblog hamburg beatles #the beatles #hamburg era #teddy boys

[eppysboys]

Klaus Voormann’s drawings of Paul fucking screaming 🖤

#Klaus Voormann #Paul McCartney #Paul #Klaus #Klaus' art #Art #i would actually love to do a more formal post of Klaus' drawings of Paul during the Hamburg era #because stitched all together it creates such a lovely portrait of Paul as a person #he captured all these facets of his personality in such a fantastic way #for who he was at the time anyway #also something fantastic about the way Klaus draws John as truly the blindest of blind bats <3