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17.08.2010 10 Uhr

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Michael BärAugust 17, 2010

It was half a century ago this week that the Beatles appeared for the first time at the Indra Club on Hamburg's Reeperbahn where they would eventually be discovered. That discovery marked the beginning of a new musical era that would eventually have an impact on numerous aspects of life from clothing to pop art. 50 years ago - who would have known that those early Hamburg performances in lonely music halls would soon give way to unprecedented adulation.

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