THE BEATLES HAMBURG & THE HAMBURG SOUND

RUNTIME: 150 MINS

CAT: AWA106
UPC: 881482310692
RRP: $14.95

"It shouldn't have been called the Liverpool sound, it should have been the Hamburg sound". 

And that's according to Kingsize Taylor, who should know, since he not only introduced rock-'n'-roll to the population of Merseyside, but also led the first Northern band to electrify the clubs of Hamburg, and announce the coming British invasion.

It is hard to overemphasise the importance of Hamburg. Without the lessons learnt in this tough seafaring city, whose name will always be linked to a very liberal attitude to the marketing of sex, there would have been no British revival, no Haight Ashbury, no sixties. 

In 2006, the city celebrated the raunchy and sometimes raucus sound that it helped to create in a key event entitled The Hamburg Sound. This programme is a record of that event, combined with visits to the streets as well as the alleys that welcomed and moulded the Beatles in the early sixties, interweaved with recollections of veterans of that heady scene.