Beatle George Harrison in Hamburg

Harrison in Hamburg
Originally uploaded by Sir George Martinn

"In the Hamburg days we had to play so long and really rock it up and leap about and foam at the mouth and do whatever. We missed the whole period in England-- Cliff Richards and the Shadows became the big thing. They all had matching ties and handkerchiefs and gray suits, but we were still doing Gene Vincent, Bo Didley, you know, Ray Charles things. So when we got back to England that was the big thing. They didn't know us in Liverpool, and there was a big gig at the townhall or something, at a dance. There was an advertisement in the newspaper saying, 'Direct from Hamburg,' and so many people really dug the band, and they were coming up to us and saying, 'Oh, you speak good English!'"

"But a year or so after that, When Brian Epstein came on the scene, he said, 'You should smarten up because nobody wants to know you,' --TV producers or record producers or whatever. We just looked too scruffy. In Germany they had alot of leather stuff, like black leather trousers and jackets and boots."

-George Harrison, 1977

Englishboys in Hamburg

LARGE

'Mach schau!' (Make a show of it!)

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This is horizontally reversed. Back then (2001?) when I had to change the PC wallpaper every two days. The Photoshop skill is very amateur. But it was long ago and I don't want to change anything. In fact, that skill doesn't improved much!Many said their performances in Hamburg were very raw and best. They played 'What'd I Say' for twenty minutes. How about that, Genesis and Yes?It's like a fairytale, they came back to Liverpool as a new band. Sharp and rocks their way to the top. They, like Lennon said, really grew up in that Hamburg.