This was the first club that the Beatles played when they arrived in Hamburg. The club was owned by Bruno Koschmider, who also owned the Kaiserkeller and the Bambi Kino.

Koschmider had a contract with the Beatles. They were paid £2.50 each a day, seven days a week, playing from 8:30-9:30, 10 until 11, 11:30-12:30, and finishing the evening playing from one until two o'clock in the morning.

German customers found the group's name comical, as "Beatles" sounded like "Peedles", which meant a small boy's penis.

After the closure of the Indra because of complaints about the noise, The Beatles played in the Kaiserkeller, starting on October 4, 1960.

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Th Top Ten Club opened in 1960 by Peter Eckhorn. The Beatles played here during their first stint in Hamburg from October-November of 1960. After three of the Beatles had been deported, they returned to Liverpool.

The band returned for a residency at the club from April to July 1961. Eckhorn secured their return by paying 158 deutsche marks to the authorities, the cost of deporting McCartney and Best the previous winter.

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Located in the red-light district of Hamburg, the Davidwache (or Reeperbahn, for the street) Police Station is one of the most notorious in Germany.

It was here where Paul McCartney and Pete Best spent three hours on arson charges for setting a condom on fire at the Bambi Kino. They were deported on December 4, 1960.

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A former porn theater in Hamburg, the Bambi Kino is most famous for its tenants in the early 60s.

The Beatles arrived in Hamburg on August 17, 1960. Bruno Koschmider, the owner of the Indra and Kaiserkeller clubs in Hamburg, let them stay in the storeroom behind the screen of the theater, which he also owned.

McCartney later said: "We lived backstage in the Bambi Kino, next to the toilets, and you could always smell them. The room had been an old storeroom, and there were just concrete walls and nothing else. No heat, no wallpaper, not a lick of paint; and two sets of bunk beds, with not very much covers—Union Jack flags—we were frozen."

When the Beatles got a better offer in Hamburg, Koschmider reported Harrison as being underage for a work visa, and he was deported on November 30, 1962. McCartney and Best retaliated by nailing a condom to the wall and setting it on fire. They were arrested for arson. Now an apartment building, the cinema entrance was where the garage door now stands.

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In 1957, Alan Williams leased a former watch-repair shop and turned it into a coffee shop. Located near the Liverpool institute (Paul McCartney) and the Liverpool Art College (Stu Sutcliffe, John Lennon), members of the Beatles would hang out here. Williams hired Stu and John to do a mural in the ladies restroom.

The Beatles booked a number of gigs here, and Williams became their manager. It was under his instruction and supervision that they went to Hamburg, Germany.

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