One of the great things about these recordings is they show what a bad ass Ringo is as a drummer

RIP 🙏🏼 Stuart Sutcliffe 1940-1962

God bless Ringo. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE DRUMMER.

6:37 Kansas city 9:01 Shimmy like kate 14:50 Red snails in the sunset 17:22 Sweet Little Sixteen 21:14 Roll over beethoven 24:10 A taste of honey 1:14:40 little qeeunie

Roadrunner (Soundcheck) 1:03 The Hippy Hippy Shake 1:53 Shelia 3:55 Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! 6:32 Shimmy Like Kate 9:01 Reminiscing 12:15 Red Sails In The Sunset 14:50 Sweet Little Sixteen 17:20 Roll Over Beethoven 21:13 A Taste of Honey 24:08 I Remember You 26:42 Ask Me Why 28:15 Bésame Mucho 30:34 Mr Moonlight 33:24 Falling In Love Again 35:45 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) 37:50 Long Tall Sally 39:36 Nothin’ Shakin’ 41:25 I Saw Her Standing There (Seventeen) 43:55 To Know Her Is To Love Her 47:27 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby 51:03 Till There Was You 54:26 Where Have You Been All My Life? 57:06 Lend Me Your Comb 1:00:29 Your Feets Too Big 1:02:53 I’m Talking About You 1:05:21 A Taste of Honey (Second Performance) 1:08:18 Matchbox 1:11:20 Little Queenie 1:14:39 Be Bop a Lula 1:18:44 I Saw Her Standing There (Seventeen) (Second Performance) 1:21:42 Hallelujah, I Love Her So 1:25:16 Red Hot 1:27:50 I’m Talking About You (Second Performance) 1:29:17 Twist and Shout 1:31:18 A Taste of Honey (Third Performance) 1:33:24

Born in Arica. Chile. 1959…fanatic of the Beatles for 50 years now…

Thanks for taking the TIME to do this. I bought the 1977 album in 77 when I was 7 from saved up newspaper route money and my Dad ! Thanks Dad.

Most rock n roll, most punk, amazing The Beatles...

Ringo propelling it all with his solid backbeat and patented Ringo rolls

The birth of punk

Can anyone get their head around the fact that just 13 months after playing to a small club of drunken Germans in Hamburg's red-light district, this group would then be playing to "a record busting" number of 70+ million Americans on live television. 13 months!

Thanks for putting this together Stan. This is a great piece of music history. Interesting that you have pointed out the John and George guitar breaks. You can just tell that these lads were going to be massive. I just wish l was sitting at one of those tables with a scotch and coke watching them. Isn’t that a great early version of ‘ l Saw Her Standing There’. The early genius of McCartney is there for all to hear on this. Fabulous bass playing, with great vocals. For Beatles historians out there, this recording is over one year since Brian Epstein had become their manager in Nov1961. According to all the books written by Beatles’ experts,, Brian signed them, cleaned them up, put them in suits,, got them to stop swearing on stage and all the rest. This recording is one year later in Dec 1962. We can all hear John offering to fight with a mouthy member of the audience , Paul is also recorded saying f--off during one of his songs. Perhaps Epstein didn’t travel to Germany with them to keep an eye on things ? Go figure! Just found a letter that George Harrison sent home to Liverpool from Germany. Doesn’t look like he was enjoying The Beatles festive stint at The Star Club: “ Thanks for your letter, which l received just before Christmas. I hope you had a good one, or at least better than ours...We only have three more days to go , and then will be away from this place for good( l hope) “. 28 December 1962.

John: "You lost the war but seem to be having a good time". Hahahahahaaaa, Lennon! During Matchbox (John singing) "I ain't got no knickers but I got a long way to go". John was the driving force behind the Beatles ability to be confident on stage and ultimately with the media.

It's amazing how they are playing rock music with a huge punch. They're rocking on this.

Awesome show. Love the chatter from the group, too. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing. What a rare gem! Shows what a great band they were at such a young age.

This Is Gold Jerry! Gold!! Thank you a million times!

John had such a phenomenal, perfect voice for rock n roll, esp in these early years. Just listen to when he sings! No disrespect towards Paul who could also scream like a motherfucker, there was just something to John, that undefinable "grain" or "grit" that just naturally came to his singing voice, sounds so great, it's very noticeable when it's John, and not John, and of course both Paul and George were good singers, well Paul was great, but NO ONE sounds like John used to...

Thanks, Stan. Just magnificent. John certainly wasn't kidding when he said that their best work was in Hamburg. Its also quite amazing to think that less than two decades earlier, the American and British Armies were liberating Europe and Germany from the yolk of Nazi horrors.

A labour of love. Thank you for doing all that hard work for us Stan. Even putting down the correct words/lyrics they sung, e.g. ''her naval drives me insane.'' Absolutely brilliant!

The tribute to Stuart is the best . A true artist 👍🏼🌼

"Ask Me Why" sounds amazing!!! Wow!

Thank you so much for taking the time to put this all together. I've heard these recordings many times, but never before have I felt like i was there, sitting in the audience that night. Your transcripts help to bring the show to life and give a great idea of how much The Beatles on stage and the audience were interacting and enjoying themselves.... Brilliant

This is absolutely wonderful. Your work is a labor of love, and illuminates these recordings in a way I never imagined. Thank you so much. If only we had hundreds of photos from December 1962, when these tapes were made. But your selections are just great, regardless. Thank you again.

You can hear the promise in the performances of their originals. Talent waiting for the opportunity.

Ringo is a beast!!

This is an historic document.

the first rock band of the world . And the greatest rock band of the world . the number one forever. the masters for every rock and punk and heavy style .

Just a few things to remember: Stewart Sutcliffe had died 8-months prior to this recording and Ringo joined the band 4-months prior to this recording. Even though these are wonderful photographs, it's a little misleading because this is the classic Beatles lineup John, Paul, George and Ringo

You can see where they got there magic from when they began writing. They had already performed these lovely songs which have really neat chord structures. All great composers played all sorts of music before they begin writing.

Superb effort - thanks for posting!

Little did these guys know that soon they were going to be the most famous people on earth. I was reading the wiki about this gig and seems the guy who recorded it got permission from John to do so in exchange for some beer.

You don't know how grateful I am for all the work you did to make this video. My English is not very good (and I hardly know German) and I always wanted to know what the boys were chatting with the audience between songs. And thank you also for having put the lyrics of the songs!

The audio is amazing! Thank You! John Lennon, full of piss and vinegar, how we miss him! ❤️

Amazing! God, I love it so much. Thank you!! How I love those boys.

This is extraordinary, Stan! Just fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing this w/ everyone!

The guitar in Hippy, Hippy Shake is one of my favorites.

And this one is even better. How generous of you.

CORRECTION for the caption "Prost (Cheers) the Star Club @ 1:10:10 John Lennon is softly singing to someone off of the mic, the words, "Everybody but me." Then Lennon kindly asks, "Alright?" to whomever he was singing it. Paul then says, "Prost, Mr. Sutcliffe." / George: Who? Who was it? (Prost means "Cheers") The song, "Everybody But Me" (written by Dave Burgess) was among Stuart's handwritten notes as carefully preserved with the song's lyrics by his sister in one of her books about Stuart Sutcliffe... a song The Beatles used to perform when there were five Beatles. It is most likely that Stuart sang lead on it, considering Paul's nod to Stuart after John sang it, possibly to Astrid and Kraus who would have been there for their final Hamburg appearance. (This section is heard more clearly on the cassette version of The Star Club Tapes which is where I first discovered what was being sung... and then said afterward.)

I’ve been searching for the best audio version of the Beatles’ Star Club tapes, and I’ve found it here. The photos and transcript is the icing on the cake. Thank you Stan!

This is simply fabulous!!!

1:10:53--The photos by Astrid of Stuart, followed by of John: haunting. They segue into my absolute favorite track, Matchbox, done down and dirty. Not the highly polished studio album version done later. THIS is the Beatles that Lennon later lamented of selling out, this rocking blues wearing black leather jackets in Hamburg. Where would the lads be had they never met Astrid Kircherr, who piqued Stuart Sutcliffe's fancy? Alot less interesting, for sure. Her contribution to what made the Beatles what they were, will never be forgotten.

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26:03 You missed "a waste of money!" 😂. GREAT post! You did a stellar job that I very much appreciate. 👍

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Thankyou this is just brilliant loved every second

Fantastic! Thank you for this

Very well done! Thank you!!

Brilliant piece of work thanks Stan.

This is extraordinary. Thank you.

Wow! This is brilliant. Thanks very much for sharing this with us

Awesome work pal, thanks for the subtitles!

Great job man Thanks

Thank you for sharing this important information... Big Job 👏👏👏👏

Thank you so much :D

No sabes cuán agradecido te estoy por este hermoso video. De verdad muchas gracias✨

😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Great Job!! Highly appreciated! Thank you very much! Greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱

What An Emotionally And Hot Live It Is 😎 👍 I Know This Live Album 😁 I Knew This Live In 1982, Few Years Later I Bought This Live Album What It Was CD 😁 But Its CD's Track Listings Were All Shuffled🙄🤔 The Reason Was Unknown 🤔 Thanks To Upload 😀 Thank You So Much 🙇

Excelente trabajo! Gracias Stan,

MY GOD!!! INTERNATIONAL TREASURE THIS!!!! WHAT A FIND!!!!

Großartige Bilder. Die Star Club Zeit ist einfach genial. Was für eine Ära. Super gemacht Stan !!

Oh, nice work !! Thanks. :)

MAN !!!! Is great !!!! Fabolous !!! Thank you !!!!!

Great work, thanks

great stuff a band learning their trade of which they then become masters off and the greatest band EVER. FAB

An enormous amount of work! Thank you. One can quibble here and there, but you nail 99% of this stuff--including a lot I'd never been able to understand (not speaking German definitely hurts in that respect). Really appreciated!

Who would thinking that Boys reach the top of the music World and they will be the most Great band in the world!!!

che energia ! meraviglioso 1962, meravigliosa Hamburg ! meravigliosi ragazzi di Liverpool

Interesting to hear Mr. Moonlight here. They ended up digging that one back up for Beatles For Sale because they didn't have enough material of their own to fill out the album.

Genius Work

bless you Stan!

Great great stuff. Thanks For share...

30:36 best Beatles version of the song in my opinion

quality content

unreally good

Ringo Starr is the drummer here...replacing best in August!

1:05:20 I'll be leaving the band now.

One of their finest. Tops “Let it Be” and the White Album.

Pure magic.

Rather hear this than any of their albums, and I saw them in 1966, in Memphis.

invaluable!

Sweet little sixteen is sweet. These guys could be contenders

Sehr interessant und durchaus geeignet für realistische Erinnerungen an Auftritte der Beatles im Hamburger Star-Club. Ich war zu der Zeit 17 - 18 Jahre alt. Hier zeigt sich dass auch die Beatles neben eigenen Songs viel gecovert hatten, aber auch sehr schnell dazu gelernt hatten.

george’s sheila number is too cute :) and those hecklers omg- john going back and forth w that one drunk was funny asl though + kansas city goes so fucking hard

1:31:18 Twist And Shout

This is magnificent listening history! Thanks! I take it that all recording was from the Star-Club-which was their 3rd Hamburg club. First was India Club and 2nd was Top Ten Club. Love your Stewart S pics, but he died early April, ‘62 right before they arrived for their Star-Club gig. Your photos span all their Hamburg gigs not just the Star-Club; but in any case... they’re great.

In John's intro to "Where have you been all my life?" (56:48) I don't think he says "freeloader" and "covered". I do believe he was using words that, well, would be considered politically incorrect today. Just John being John. Listen carefully.

1:28:50 To me, it sounds like "She's got a figure like Brian Epstein". For years, records had only part of the song Red Hot- it would end before this line, since it was initially claimed that the recordings were made before the Beatles' contract with EMI.

interesting little Peter Gunn riff in "I Saw Her Standing There."

It’s a shame they had to be tamed in order to make it big. They were such a rockin and rollin band. But I guess Brian knew best since without him we never would have had the BEATLES!!

Ringo for sure !

Great download man where can I get a copy ? They sound great and having fun oh to be young again sigh!💚✌️🥁🎸🎸🎸🇮🇪

Punk rock.

Some songs sounds like Ringo's, I'm pretty sure about it. His playing and sound are unique.

4th Club Scott ! Indra - KAISERKELLER - Top Ten and Star-Club !

i have the original vinyl release of 1977, for which they did a tremendous job of cleaning the bad quality recordings... but the strong ECHO, which was part of the Bass notes (low frequencies), still remained... ... and the sound was still rather messy... But THIS NEW remaster has been cleaned up at a much higher level, purified at last of that awful echo, and every instrument was re-equalized separately, so it seems... Is this a new CD available on the market? How can we get it? Thanks.

This is so raw you can smell the alcohol, vomit and cigarette smoke.

I forgot to add my usual sign off ♥️ 🎸🎸🥁🎸 ♥️

The raw, leather Beatles. This period was the crucible when the Beatles perfected their harmonies and playing - hours upon hours. Hanging out with Stu Sutcliffe, Astrid and Klaus. Pete Best trying his best (!), and the boys becoming real rock n rollers.

Good stuff! However, it's a little misleading to be showing pictures of the older line up, no? This is McCartney, Lennon, Harrison & Starkey - and they are on FIRE!!!!