614 The Beatles “Money (That’s What I Want)” 1963

In 1960, the Beatles were signed “to a stand at one of the clubs on Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn. It was a big break, the Beatles thought. None of The Beatles had been out of the country before, and the prospect of a ‘tour’ of the Continent overwhelmed them. This was the big break; they felt perched on the brink of fame…Instead they found a sleazy string of strip clubs in one of the wildest and wickedest cities on the Continent. It was a port: Vice was a major industry and there was a tradition of organized crime. The five young Britons were set down in Hamburg and told to play rock and roll” (William McKeen, The Beatles: A Bio-Bibliography, 1989). 

The Beatles “Money (That’s What I Want)”