“The Beatles in Hamburg” Part 2 – Hamburg Special
Let’s pick up where we left off …
Welcome back to Hamburg for Part 2 of this “Tracing the Beatles’ footsteps” series.In case you missed Part 1, you can click here to catch up. We continued our walk through Hamburg, checking out places that had played an important role in the Beatles’ story.
We want to especially thank Claus-Dieter Rotthoff for the great impromptu interview and for sharing his memories and his store’s history with us for the camera. We will upload more of the interview in a separate clip as otherwise this one would have gotten too long.
As an independent family run music store with no online platform, living of word-of-mouth recommendations, locals and travelling touring musicians, we really hope shops like that will pull through this ♥
We hope you enjoyed coming on this virtual trip with us. We uploaded a photo album of pictures we took while filming this vlog here. We will post even more pictures in the weeks to come!
Keep on keeping on and stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa
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Coming into this discussion a little late in the game, but that was an awesome tour. Thanks for sharing! One other often overlooked aspect of the Beatles’ connection to Hamburg came a few years later, in June 1966, when they returned for the first (and only) time to play a concert in their touring years. Two actually, on the same day–June 26 for the more obsessive in the crowd–at the now long-gone Ernst-Merck Halle. Built in 1950, demolished 36 years later, it held 5,600 people. There’s a short grainy video, fascinating to watch, of the Beatles on stage that day. It’s actually excerpted from a police training film on crowd management, so it focuses on that rather then the music itself. But you do get a good feel for the chaos and terrible acoustics, and the Beatles probably lamented their return, at least musically.
Here’s a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUzXPj-XlsA
A much better video exists of one of their shows just two days earlier in Munich, which focuses on the music, and you get a good sense of not only their setlist, but how it came across as an experience. That would have been something to see then, but here it is now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Nostm73g4
Anyway, thanks for posting–you are both ambassadors to a different time and place, very much appreciated…
I would love that one day you release your trip in Hamburg on dvd or in Blue Ray and also Live at the Cavern Club. Thanks for all you do.
Such a wonderful and informative vlog, even 2 years later so enjoyable and fun to watch. Learned a lot about the Beatles too.
Super Trip in die Vergangenheit, leider gibt es das mal vorhandene Beatlesmuseum in Hamburg nicht mehr. Ich hatte das Vergnügen das Museum in den 2000er noch zu besuchen. Es war auf die hamburger Zeit spezialisiert und mußte aus finanziellen Gründen schließen.
This was fantastic Ladies.
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I loved these two videos. I don’t know that I will ever get the chance to go. The reality of it, like Mona said “I don’t think it’s Paradise, but I’ll take their word for it”! Made me laugh out loud. Great virtual tour.
I could feel how special it was for you, I really enjoyed living it through your eyes. One place I’d love to visit is Rotthoff’s.
Thank you!
It’s good to know that the places where they played are still there. Well, it’s history and they should be preserved as the pyrameds and others monuments. Thank you for brought it to us.
Thank you for this thematic city trip. In this period of confinement it makes us breathe a little. In this Ali Baba cave that is the Claus-Dieter Rotthoff store, you must have found a treasure, right? Did you buy a new guitar, a new harp?
Thanks for doing this team MLT. Really enjoyed it.
Looking forward to the music shop owner interview. I bet he’s got a few stories to tell 🙂
Thank you for tour Ladies! That was cool
Ah, I knew that door where John Lennon stood for that famous photo looked familiar. So fitting and awesome to see you both there in your own photo. It’s amazing to hear stories of famous musicians and their instruments like Paul McCartney getting his Hoffner Bass 500/1 guitar at that cool Rotthoff music store that he still owns and uses to this day, and how cool to meet the store owner who was there and saw the Beatles back then.
Great insight into how polished the Beatles became after their experience performing in Hamburg. In Howard Goodall’s documentary of the Beatles it mentions also how the Beatles time in Hamburg gave them great experience in playing all the variety genres from rock to folk to Broadway tunes etc which gave them a Kaleidoscope of music palette to draw upon to enable the great diversity in their own song writing later on. So Hamburg is an important place in music history indeed!
While I haven’t been to Hamburg, my favorite fountain pen company is headquartered there and a few of my pens have been there for repair or customization over the years! Always wondered what Hamburg was like, and now I know. 🙂
Really enjoyed The Beatles in Hamburg part 1 and 2. Thanks so much for doing this! Loved it!! Looking forward to the interview with Claus-Dieter Rotthoff.
BTW, great to see Mona’s tap dancing skills! ??❤?
Totally enjoyed Part 2, indeed, picked up where you left off… Thankyou for that interesting talk with music store owner and providing English subtitles… Very interesting and enjoyed looking at what I could see around in his store.
That fishmarket area, reminiscent of one of the buildings here in Ottawa, Canada, in the Byward Market area downtown. Thoroughly and luved watching the V-log and you all make great tour guides… Looking forward to more adventures, etc from your Hamburg trip, complete with all the Beatles fixins’
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Very nice girls! Claus-Dieter Rotthoff seems very nice, looking forward to hearing more from him! My grandparents (father’s side) were from Germany. I remember their thick German accent when I was a little boy. I can’t speak a word of German though. Well maybe sauerkraut, lederhosen and nein but that’s about it!
This was very interesting and fun. I really enjoyed having you two as our touring guides. You have done your homework for sure. Hey, why don’t you start offering exclusive annual MLT Club group tours of Vienna, Hamburg, Liverpool or wherever for the Club? You could make it a magical musical tour. Speaking for myself there would be nothing I would enjoy more than something like that. It would be worth whatever you needed to charge. Let me know so I can start saving for it!
Very interesting visit! I truly admire your respect for the past and how you keep it real! I didn’t know that the cover of Lennon’s rock and roll album was taken way back then in Hamburg! Or that Sir Paul is still playing the Hofner bass he bought back then! I agree with Brian that you are both beautiful!
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the insights and hard to find information that you both shared on this video. At the very end, when you were wrapping up at home, I thought that both of your hair looked absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Mona, I was particularly struck at the way you crafted your blonde in with darker tones. Lisa’s red always looks special. Going back to where Paul bought his first Hofner bass was really fascinating to me.
What a great tour and tutorial of the city. I’m sure you had “goosies” being in the same place where The Beatles started their careers. Way cool!!!
Lisa………….are you ever going to go back to wearing “bangs”? You look so darn cute with bangs (not that you don’t look cute without them (I think I just dug my self a hole)
Loved the tour and listening to your commentary. Just my opinion but as the Beatles probably reached their peak as a stage band somewhere between Hamburg and the Ed Sullivan show, and you ladies are every bit their equal on stage from your “Saloon” gigs through your Cavern Club residency. I can’t believe you weren’t recognized and mobbed by fans in Hamburg.
Superb fun as always with MLT!
Awesome tour… and incredible information. Thank you so very much for sharing this!
I would to visit Hamburg, but Laurie is not as big a Beatle fan as I. So, probably not going to happen. I loved the films you have shared. Very interesting and such a pleasure seeing you have fun. ?❤
Thanks so much for sharing these two latest videos. It’s great to hear the Beatles history and how the band grew. You did a wonderful job. Hats off to Rudi for the drone camera work. Just excellent. Spent a stressful morning planning how to keep our patients and employees in good shape when our mayor is threatening to close the city. I’d actually kind of forgotten how Fridays are my favorite day as I await your latest present to us all.
Then your video pops up and the day is better. Amazing how a few minutes with you two can brighten a day so much.
Ladies, this is so Facinating! I really enjoyed the interview with the music store owner. Thank you for providing English sub titles. One of the best parts was listening to you all speak German . Such a fascinating language, even though I don’t speak it. I do enjoy listening to you all.
Really informative with so many scenes. Even managed to get Michaela in a shot.
Michaela has let her hair grow out too!?
Thanks again Ladies for the wealth of information, and providing the best tour guides anywhere!?❤