 Entrance to the Star-Club, Hamburg. 1968 | |
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| Location | Hamburg, Germany |
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| Public transit |   Reeperbahn |
| Owner | Manfred Weissleder and Horst Fascher |
| Type | Nightclub,music venue |
| Events | Rock and roll |
| Capacity | 2,000 |
| Opened | 1962 |
| Closed | 1969 |
TheStar-Club was a music club inHamburg,Germany, that opened on Friday 13 April 1962, and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder andHorst Fascher. In the 1960s, many of the giants ofrock music played at the club. The club closed on 31 December 1969 and the building it occupied was destroyed by a fire in 1987. The address of the club wasGroße Freiheit 39 in theSt. Pauli quarter of Hamburg.Große Freiheit is a side street of theReeperbahn. The club had a capacity of 2,000 people, and cinema-style seating.[1]
The club achieved worldwide renown through the performances ofthe Beatles, who played three residencies there between April and December 1962. An amateur tape recording of one of the performances (or parts of several performances) during their December engagement was remixed and released in 1977 asLive! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. The club remained a popular venue for British and American rock and roll acts through the mid-1960s; its success was such that it spun off arecord label bearing the Star Club name that operated from 1964 to 1966, often recording acts who performed at the club.
List of musicians who played in the Star-Club:[2]
In October 1962,Siegfried Loch, label manager forPhilips Records, visited the Star-Club for a concert withFats Domino. Loch persuaded Manfred Weissleder, the manager of Star-Club, to give him permission to set up recording equipment in the club.[4] He started a record label, Star-Club Records, subsidiary of Philips Records.
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