broadcast on 01/10/2025 at 10:35 p.m. Available until 04/10/2025
In August 1960, an unknown group called The Beatles, then composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe, arrived in Germany. The young rockers from Liverpool, who are on their first trip abroad, have signed a contract to perform in Hamburg at clubs in the red-light district of Sankt Pauli, including the Kaiserkeller and the Indra Club. For several hours a day, they play in front of drunken and aggressive audiences – a difficult school that will make them an excellent live band. But after just four months, the quintet had to leave Germany. Having discovered that they had performed in a rival club, their employer denounced George Harrison, then a minor, to the authorities… The future boys in the wind nevertheless stayed four other times in the Hanseatic city, where they won their first contract. recording to accompany singer and guitarist Tony Sheridan. Founding moment “We were born in Liverpool, but we grew up in Hamburg,” John Lennon would later say. Made up of archives and interviews, this documentary, which swings among other things to the rhythm of “Twist and Shout”, recounts the early years of the Beatles, between their native England and the city of their metamorphosis.
