#17aug1960

The Beatles photographed at The Indra Club on Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany on the 17th August 1960; their first ever night in Hamburg. 

The boys had arrived earlier that evening for the first of 48 nights at the Indra. They played to just a handful of spectators on this first night and were also forced by Bruno Koschmider, the Indra’s owner, to turn down their amplifiers, following a complaint from the woman who lived above the club. Tired, hungry and a little overwhelmed, they played this opening 4 and a half hour show ‘huddled together and stock still’. That night they slept in Bruno Koschmider’s flat - luxury!