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Hamburg? That city of sin?
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No, certainly not. You can't go there.
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He said, "Oh, come on, Mimi.
We'll get 100 pounds a week. "
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So in the end, he went.
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I can remember the time
when one drunken Kraut...
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tried to get onstage
and John Lennon was eating onstage...
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and he threw his knife at him.
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And then, not deterring the fellow...
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he promptly kicked him in the face
to boot him off the stage.
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And so you had this town
full of gangsters...
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who used to love the Beatles...
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and used to send them
crates of ale onstage.
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And they'd be legless.
Absolutely legless onstage.
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Everywhere they played,
they would finish up in a fight.
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In actual fact,
one place that I sent them to play...
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they used to have to hide
behind the piano...
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because the popular thing was
to throw the chairs at the group.
:10:05
Then we went back to Liverpool,
and there were quite a few bookings.
:10:08
You know, they all thought
we were German.
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Anyway, Bill was from Hamburg, and
they all said, "You speak good English."
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I was told that he was playing
in a place called The Cavern.
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It was an old wine cellar...
:10:22
that had been turned
into a sort of lunch club.
:10:35
It was Brian that went there.
:10:38
And he was only at the back of the hall...
:10:40
listening to those four boys,
but whatever he saw...
:10:44
he saw that little spark.
:10:47
And he went right around
and offered himself as their manager.
:10:50
I was immediately struck
by their music, their beat...
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and their sense of humor,
actually, onstage.
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And even afterwards, when I met them...
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I was struck again
by their personal charm.