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Hamburg and Liverpool
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 15, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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Elvis, Kaiserkeller, Quinn, Herold, original, prostitution, Koschmider, Mersey, BBC, furniture, Liverpool, rich, northernness
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1960-1962 Hamburg and Liverpool
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the                    scene was extremely active, but was made up of many amateurs who had day jobs, a          musical environment
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conducive to young musicians
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pop music in West Germany in late 1950s and early 1960s
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Schlager scene
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Freddy           
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Tommy Kent
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Ted              (Germany's Elvis)
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this was the German version of American Rock and Roll
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Bert Kaempfert
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1961: Wonderland by Night
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mover and shaker in pop scene in West Germany
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Bruno Koschmider
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owned first club in Hamburg where Beatles played
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Allen Williams had come to Hamburg from England to get gigs for many bands
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walking around Hamburg for a place that would be best
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heard some rock and roll and meet Bruno                     
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Williams had a tape that had been erased, missed opportunity
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Koschmider later goes back to London by mistake to look for Williams
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met Tony Sheridan who came to Hamburg
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Hamburg had legalized                          and drugs, sin city of Europe, needed bands
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Williams and Koschmider get reconnected again
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Beatles Hamburg stints
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first stint: August 1960
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John Lennon is 20, Paul McCartney is 18, George Harrison is 17, underage, which led him to being thrown out of the country at the end of the engagement
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end of 1960: played the Indra and the                         
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April 1961: come back and play at Top Ten
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August 1961: recorded with Tony Sheridan
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Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers
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April 1962: The Star Club
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November 1962: The Star Club
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December 1962: The Star Club
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they tried to do the songs as closely as possible to the                 , e.g. "That's Alright, Mama", sounded quite like           
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assimilated much of the characteristics of American pop
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six sets a night, a brutal schedule, started using amphetamines
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what happens when you play so much is that you either burn out and quit, or you get really good, and what happened with the Beatles is that they got really good
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in Hamburg they were still wearing leather jackets
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but when they came back to England people noticed that they had improved considerably
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Beatles very active around Liverpool
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not the only musicians from Liverpool to have success in the UK
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Frankie Vaughan
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Lita Rosa
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Michael Holliday
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Billy Fury
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Johnny Gentle
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but the Beatles didn't try to hide their                         
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Feb 1961: debut at Cavern Club
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Nov 1961: Brian Epstein sees Beatles at Cavern Club
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Jan 1962: Decca audition, Epstein signs the band
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Mar 1962: First appearance on       
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Apr 1962: Stu Sutcliffe dies
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May 1962: Epstein meets George Martin (record producer)
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this is the beginning of the Beatles moving out of their Liverpool environment and toward London
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Brian Epstein
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manager of the Beatles
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older than them, but friendly with them and had a relationship that wasn't as different as with George Martin
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born into a well-off family that owned                    stores
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got kicked out of schools, did dress design
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a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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get involved in the pop scene in 1960s
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had a record department in the family furniture store, since a record player was a big piece of furtniture at that time
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he ran the NEMS Record Store
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writing articles in a music magazine in the              Beat, important for Liverpool bands
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videos:
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1960, Ted Herold, West Germany's Elvis Presley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNAXDokHA0g
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Great reenacted moments in Rock-n-Roll history, lunch hour at The Cavern in Liverpool when Brian Epstein sees the Beatles play for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLI3GchDr0M

People:

######################### (1926-)
English record producer who helped produce the Beatles first albums
  • the "Fifth Beatle"
  • considered one of the greatest record producers of all time, with 30 number one hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number one hits in the United States
  • head of EMI's Parlophone label
  • Brian Epstein contacted him about Beatles
######################### (1934-1967)
English music entrepreneur, managed the Beatles until his death in 1967
  • discovered Beatles during lunchtime Cavern Club performance
  • secured meeting with George Martin, head of EMI's Parlophone label
  • often stepped in to mediate personal disputes among the group
  • Beatles had unquestioned loyalty to Epstein which led to them sometimes not reading contracts they signed

Spelling Corrections:

aphetimins ⇒ amphetamines

Flashcards:

who was Germany's Elvis
Ted Herold

Ideas and Concepts:

On the importance of hard work and Hamburg for the Beatles, via this morning's History of the Beatles class: "The Beatles first came to Hamburg to play clubs in November 1961 and played at numerous clubs there off and on for nearly a year. And what happens when you are playing a brutal schedule of six sets a night off and on for two years is that you either burn out and quit, or you get really good. And when the Beatles returned to Liverpool and once again appeared on stage at the Cavern Club in August 1962, people who remembered them realized that they had become really good."
Organizing the Biography
1957-1963: Before Beatlemania
Hamburg and Liverpool