Early '60s ~ Part IV: WALKABOUTS
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To avoid possible rampages and an uncontrolled rush of the fans on the
occasion of the Beatles 1966 concert in the Ernst-Merck-Hall, it was decided
for accomodations outside the city. The Beatles arrival at the Ahrensburg
station instead of the Hauptbahnhof main station in the city's center,
was part of that plan. As the Beatles arrived here on June 26th 1966 at
5:30 AM in a special train from Essen, everything did in fact go off quietly
and unspectacular.
Their journey then continued on to the castle Schloßhotel Tremsbüttel.
GEORGE: It was the train that was used when the royal party toured Germany,
and it was very nice; we each had or own little compartment with marble
bathtubs, really luxuriously decorated.
Opening hours:
So-Fr: 12-22
Fr+Sa: 12-24
www.erotic-art-museum.de
The world's largest public display of erotic art was inaugurated in
Hamburg on November 21st 1992. The 1000 works of renowned artists from
over six centuries are displayed on approximately 2000 square meters. Amongst
them drawings by John Lennon.
KLAUS: Every second of Stuart's short time he was doing something. He saw 10 times more than other people. His imagination was fantastic. His death was a tragedy. He would have done so much.
Stuart Sutcliffe was John Lennon's best friend. In 1960 he became engaged to Astrid Kirchherr, left the Beatles, stayed in Hamburg and studied at the University of Fine Arts under Professor Paolozzi. The young, creative and highly talented artist died in April 1962 from a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg. After the film premiere of BACKBEAT, the interest in his life and work - that resembled van Gogh a bit, was revived, and some of his works were shown in exhibitions in Liverpool, London and Washington.
Here some of the possible reasons:
1. many unpaid bills from the period 1960-62, most from the Herbertstrasse
[a famous red-light street].
This is not the case. Paul McCartney for example did not pay his "Gretel
& Alfons" bill till 1989, without having to appear before the Davidwache
police station in 1966. Beyond that, carefull and expensive studies have
clearly shown, that even prior to 340 BC, all payments for those services
rendered shall only be paid in advance.
2. facing various paternity suits.
Not very convincing. If that type of threat where faced on a daily
basis, then worldwide no more musicians would go on tour.
3. panic-stricken fear of playing before German audiences, because
they felt they had not developed musically since 1962.
Plausible. JOHN 1972: "We always talk about Hamburg and what we generated
was fantastic."
Could it be true that they had already reached their musical peak prior
to 1963?
4. the alleged piddle-concert from the pulpit of the St. Joseph Church
in April 1962, and the fear of negative reaction.
Supposedly orders for an investigation regarding church desecration
lay at the Davidwache police station till the late 60s.
The following is a quotation from Ulf Krüger's, BEATLES GUIDE
HAMBURG:
On January 22, 1965, Star Club manager Manfred Weißleder wrote
a letter to the senior public prosecutor in this matter. Unfortunately
this letter is lost, but the response from the public juvenile prosecutor
Rösch still exists.
It reads:
"The investigations enforced in the meantime have proven that
minister Mackels is not sure whether it's a fact that the Beatles desecrated
the church. Further witnesses, that could lead to the clearing up of the
facts of the case, are presently non existent. Final clarification can
therefore only be expected from an interrogation of the Beatles regarding
the matter. Under the circumstances I will leave it at the provisional
adjournment of the case, due to the absence of the accused."
Finally George delivers to us a clarification on the facts in The Beatles
Anthology:
GEORGE: We were free to piss on anyone we wanted to, if we wanted,
although we never actually did. (John didn't piss on the nuns - we peed
over a balcony into a deserted street at about 4:30 in the morning.).
Public transport
U-Bahn (subway) line U2,
Buses: 22, 39, 181, 281
Bus stop "Hagenbecks Tierpark
http://www.hagenbeck-tierpark.de/index.php?id=752&L=1
There are more than 2100 animals in the famous Hagenbeck zoo. Carl Hagenbeck exhibited seals on Hamburg's Reeperbahn for the first time in 1848. The lions' tract was once remarkable as being the first unfenced enclosure for lions in the world. One of the zoo's biggest attractions is the 'Troparium', with its sharks and moray eels, corals and sea-horses, piranhas, alligators and anacordas. And both young and old enjoy the sight of the walrusses at feeding time, the baby elephants lumbering along and the breathtaking dolphin show.
Around the turn of the century, Carl Hagenbeck (14th June 1844 to 14th April 1913) had the idea of exhibiting animals in bar-less, open-air enclosures instead of in cages. Instead of bars, the animals are separated from the public by invisible ditches. This idea was patented by Carl Hagenbeck in 1896, and in 1907 he opened his Zoo in Stellingen, a district of Hamburg.
Since then, zoos modelled on Carl Hagenbeck’s design featuring open-air enclosures and panoramic landscapes have opened all over the world. Hagenbeck’s Zoo has become known as the forerunner of the modern Wild Animal Park.
Hotel 66 ~ Hein-Hoyer
between 13 Pubs and Restaurants
and 14 Main RR Station
Ahrensburger Bahnhof (railway station) *** S4-Ahrensburg
Airport Hamburg *** Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
Akustik Studio (recording studio) *** Kirchenallee 57
Astrid Kirchherr's Haus (family home of Astrid Kirchherr) ***
Eimsbütteler Str. 45a
Außenalster (Alster lake) *** Brodersweg ... Alte
Rabenstraße
Bambi Kino (cinema) *** Paul-Roosen-Straße 33
Britische Seemannsmission (British Mariner's Mission) ***
Johannisbollwerk 20
Davidwache (police station) *** Spielbudenplatz 31
Ernst-Merck-Halle (concert hall) *** Messegelände
Erotic Art Museum *** Reeperbahn-Nobistor 10a
Fachhochschule Für Gestaltung (University of Applied Sciences)
*** Armgartstraße 24
Fischmarkt (fish market) *** St.Pauli Fischmarkt
Friedrich-Ebert-Halle (concert hall) *** Alter Postweg
36, S3-Heimfeld
Gretel & Alfons & Co (pubs and restaurants) ***
Schmuckstraße ... Große Freiheit
Hauptbahnhof (main railway station) *** Kirchenallee
Heiligengeistfeld (square) *** U3-St.Pauli, U3-Feldstraße,
Glacischaussee
Hotel Germania *** Detlev-Bremer-Straße 8
Hochschule Für Bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts)
*** Lerchenfeld 2
Hotel Pacific *** Neuer Pferdemarkt 30
Indra (music club) *** Große Freiheit 64
Jäger-Passage (street name) *** Wohlwillstraße
22
Kaiserkeller (music club) *** Große Freiheit 36
Klamotten (clothes) *** Thadenstr.6 ... Spielbudenplatz
9
Landungsbrücken (piers) *** U3/S1/S3-Landungsbrücken
Moorweidenstraße (street name) *** Moorweidenstraße
18
Musikhaus Rotthoff (music store) *** Neuer Pferdemarkt
30-31
Star-Club (music club) *** Große Freiheit 39
Steinway-Haus (music store) *** Colonnaden 29
St.Pauli (district) *** U3-St.Pauli, S1/S3-Reeperbahn
St.Joseph (church) *** Große Freiheit 41-43
Top Ten (music club) *** Reeperbahn 136
Tremsbüttel (castle hotel) *** Schloßstraße
10
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