“Last Night in Hamburg”, recorded during the last week of December 1962 at the Star-Club during their final Hamburg residency, is fascinating, a real treasure to any Beatles fan.
These performances, made on a portable reel-to-reel recorder, take listeners back to a time when the Beatles were about to become huge; they were still playing small clubs. The audio quality is poor, but still listenable. The Beatles’ raw energy, comes through loud and clear.
This album is devoted almost exclusively to covers; "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Ask Me Why" are among the few Lennon-McCartney originals. Early rock & roll songs are a major focus.
Although the Beatles sound like diamonds in the rough on these performances, they had clearly developed a very distinctive sound.
One of the best-known semi-official Beatles releases.


The Beatles

Last Night in Hamburg 1962

1999




CD / 1999 / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

1. I Saw Her Standing There

2. I'm Going To Sit Down And Cry

3. Roll Over Beethoven

4. The Hippy Hippy Shake

5. Sweet Little Sixteen

6. Lend Me Your Comb

7. Your Feets Too Big

8. Where Have You Been All My Life

9. Twist And Shout

10. Mr. Moonlight

11. A Tatse Of Honey

12. Besame Mucho

13. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

14. Kansas City

15. Nothin' Shakin'

16. To Know Her Is To Love Here

17. Little Queenie

18. Falling In Love Again

19. Sheila

20. Be-Bop-A-Lula*

21. "Hallelujah, I Love Her So*

22. Ask Me Why

23. Red Sails In The Sunset

24. Matchbox

25. I'm Talking About You

26. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

27. Long Tall Sally

28. I Remember You


The Beatles:

John Lennon: vocals, guitar, harmonica

Paul McCartney: vocals, bass

George Harrison: vocals, guitar

Ringo Starr: drums

and guests:

Horst Fascher (Star-Club owner): lead vocals on *Hallelujah I Love Her So

Fred Fascher (Star-Club waiter): lead vocals on *Be-Bop-A-Lula


The Beatles / Last Night in Hamburg / 1999