Star-Club

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The Searchers, recorded "Live" at the Star-Club
For the band, see Starclub.


The Star-Club was a music club in Hamburg, Germany that opened Friday April 13, 1962 (see also: Friday the 13th) and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder and Horst Fascher. In the sixties, many of the giants of rock music played at the club. The club closed on December 31, 1969, and the building it occupied was destroyed by a fire in 1987. The address in Hamburg area St. Pauli was: Große Freiheit 39; Große Freiheit is a side street of the Reeperbahn.

The club achieved worldwide renown through the famous performances of the Beatles who played there April 13, 1962 - May 31, 1962 and started another round of performances November 1, 1962. Their last performance there was December 31, 1962; the show was recorded on a home tape machine, and a remixed version was released in 1977 as Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962.

The Beatles' first Hamburg Club performance was at the Indra Club (also Große Freiheit) at 18. August 1960.

Musicians who played here

English musicians (alphabetical): The Beatles, Black Sabbath (known then as Earth), Cream, "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich", The Searchers; Soft Machine and American musicians: Jerry Lee Lewis (who released a live album recorded at the club), Little Richard, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Everly Brothers, Bill Haley, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny and the Hurricanes and Brenda Lee.

Star-Club Records

In the early 1960s the Clubowners also started a record label, Star-Club Records, subsidiary of Philips Records

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For the club in Hamburg, see Star-Club.

Starclub was an early 90s rock band from England.

The Band

  • Owen Vyse - Vocals, guitar, Hammond organ, keyboards
  • Steve French - Guitar, backing vocals
  • Julian Taylor

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Horst Fascher (born 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany.

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St. Pauli (full name: Sankt Pauli) is a district of the German city of Hamburg and a district of the State of Hamburg.

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Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962
(1977) Love Songs
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Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 is a live album featuring a performance by The Beatles at the Star-Club in Hamburg on New Year's Eve, 31 December
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The Beatles were an English musical group from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. The original band line up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums) is the same as the current line up (2007) although there have been many shifts of personnel
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, comprised of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock, their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock.
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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were a chart topping, UK pop group of the 1960s.

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Five friends from Wiltshire, David Harman, Trevor Davies, John Dymond, Michael Wilson and Ian Amey, formed a group in 1961 called Dave Dee And The Bostons.
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The Searchers are a British rock act who emerged as part of the 1960s merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
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