The
Top Ten Club was a music club in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
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GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
owned by Peter Eckhorn. The address in Hamburg area
St. PauliSt. Pauli located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...
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Reeperbahn|-||-||-||-||}The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...
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- The Jets Pete Wharton (bass), Colin Melander (guitar), Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan , is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist...
(guitar), Rick Hardy (guitar).
- The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
, between March and July 1961. The Beatles lived in the attic above the club, and backed Tony Sheridan in their first official recording sessions during this period.
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The
Top Ten Club was a music club in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
owned by Peter Eckhorn. The address in Hamburg area
St. PauliSt. Pauli located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...
was 136
Reeperbahn|-||-||-||-||}The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...
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Musicians who played here
- The Jets Pete Wharton (bass), Colin Melander (guitar), Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan , is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist...
(guitar), Rick Hardy (guitar).
- The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
, between March and July 1961. The Beatles lived in the attic above the club, and backed Tony Sheridan in their first official recording sessions during this period. ""Next of Kin"" South Wales Rock Group (Ebbw Vale) Frankie Allan (vocals) Robert Evans (bass) Dai Johns (Lead Guitar) Mike Ashman (Rhythm Guitar Alan Snell (drums)played there 1965 lived in the attic above the club
- Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were a chart topping British pop/rock group of the 1960s. Two of their single releases secured global sales in excess of one million copies each, and they reached Number One in the UK with the second of them, "The Legend of Xanadu".-Biography:Five friends from...
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- The Blackjacks Pat Harris (Vocals), Don Callard (Lead Guitar), Robbie Williams (Rhythm and Vocals), Bob Wilkinson (Bass) and Pete James (Drums) - March, 1963 then Moved onto Top Ten Club, Hannover.
- Universe'. South-Wales rock band. Played 5 residencies at the TOP TEN between May 1970 and August 1971. Members: Michael Blanche(You Tube aka HOLLOPOP), Steve Finn, John Healan, Mike Lloyd-Jones and Rob Reynolds.(Pete Hurley, Steve Keeley, Phil Summers)
- Strawberry Dust (later became Racing Cars
Racing Cars are a Welsh pop band, formed in the Rhondda Valley, Wales in 1973.-Career:They were signed to one of the biggest British record labels of the time, Chrysalis Records. Racing Cars debut album yielded their only hit single with "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"...
) South Wales rock band, February 1971. Members: Morty, Graham Williams, Jack Bass and Dicky Owen.
- Quicksand South Wales rock band. 1971. Members: Phil Davies, Jimmy Davies, Jeff Hooper, Anthony Stone and Rob Collins.
- The Smokeless Zone (Formerly also known as "The Jets") “Plum” Hollis (vocals), Deke Leonard
Roger "Deke" Leonard is a rock musician from Llanelli in South Wales "serving a life sentence in the music business." Best known as a member of the progressive rock band Man, which he joined and left several times, and for fronting his own rock-‘n-roll band Iceberg, which he formed and disbanded...
(guitar), Martin Ace (bass), Beau Adams and later Terry WilliamsTerry Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes work for Dire Straits, B. B. King, and Bob Dylan....
(drums), with guest appearances by Tony Sheridan
- Oswald Orange. South Wales rock band. February 1971. Members: Alice Ennis
- Wayne Gibson & The Dynamic Sounds. South London rock band. Played from 1st Nov, 1961 to Jan, 1962. Wayne Gibson (vocals), Mick Todman (lead guitar), Ray Rogers (bass), Pete Gillies (rhythm guitar) and Larry Cole (drums).
- Mustard Cheshire rock band 1971. Members : Alan Williamson, Rick Shaw, Alan Hopkins, Melvyn Allen, Kenny Jones.
External links
- http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/hamburgclubs.html
- http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.03.27%2007.02%20top%20ten/1961topten.html