McCartney Times

The Beatles‘ first trip to Hamburg, Germany in 1960 ended in disaster. After they’d broken a contract to play exclusively at the Kaiserkeller Club, owner Bruno Koschmider arranged to have George Harrison deported for being underage and Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best arrested on an attempted arson charge.But the band – McCartney, Best, John Lennon, Stu Sutcliffe and Harrison, who had turned 18 – returned to Hamburg on April 1, 1961 to begin a three-month residency at the Top Ten Club. The gig was grueling: seven-hour sets on weeknights and eight-hour sets on weekends. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn determined that the band spent 503 hours on stage for 92 nights straight.

Source: 55 Years Ago: The Beatles Start 3-Month Residency at Hamburg’s Top Ten Club