Hamburg square dedicated to Beatles (From Bromsgrove Advertiser)

Hamburg square dedicated to Beatles

12:38am Friday 12th September 2008

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Hamburg has dedicated a city square to The Beatles to commemorate the time the band spent there in the early 1960s.

The band periodically stayed in Hamburg from 1960-62 to play clubs along the city's raucous Reeperbahn street.

The Beatles honed its early sound at Hamburg venues including the Kaiserkeller and Star Club.

The commemorative square, which Hamburg Mayor Ole von Beust officially opened, is marked by a dark granite circle 29 metres in diameter which looks like a record.

It features steel sculptures of each of the Fab Four.

To one side stands a sculpture of original Beatles' bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, who died of a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg in 1962.

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