Star Club

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Entrance to the Star Club in Große Freiheit, Hamburg, around 1968
The Star Club memorial stone in the backyard on the Große Freiheit
The more famous music groups that performed in the star club

The Star Club was a music club in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli , which opened on April 13, 1962 and closed on December 31, 1969. The address was Große Freiheit 39. The club became known primarily through the performances of the Beatles , but also other well-known artists.

history

Before the Star Club was founded , the Stern Cinema operated by Manfred Weissleder was located at this address . At the suggestion of the music promoter Horst Fascher , this was transformed into a music club. The rooms of the cinema, including the entrance and balcony, were only slightly modified. The building stood right next to the property of the baroque St. Joseph's Church . The Star Club was run by the founder Manfred Weissleder; The managing director was Hans Bunkenburg, then Horst Fascher after working as a waiter. In the seven years of its existence, many well-known rock music greats have made guest appearances in the Star Club. Then the erotic nightspot Salambo moved in . The building, which fell fallow after a fire in 1983, was finally demolished in 1987.

Artists such as The Searchers , The Liverbirds , Chris Andrews Johnny Kidd & the Pirates , The Undertakers , Bill Haley , Chuck Berry , Little Richard , Jimi Hendrix , The Rivets, Screaming Lord Sutch , Gene Vincent , Gerry & the Pacemakers , Cream performed in the club , Ray Charles , Fats Domino , The Remo Four , The Everly Brothers , Mino Reitano , Brenda Lee , Lee Curtis and the All-Stars, The Rattles , The Blizzards , Cisco and his Dynamites and Jerry Lee Lewis . The latter recorded his album Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg , there in 1964 . The Star Club gained worldwide fame primarily through the guest performances of the Beatles, who made three guest appearances in the club: The first seven-week guest performance began on April 13, 1962 and ended on May 31, 1962. From November 1 to November 14, 1962 gave she 28 concerts of her second guest appearance. The third guest appearance lasted from December 18 to December 31, 1962.

In the first phase (until June 1964, when the club was closed by the regulatory authorities because of beating waiters and reopened with Hans Bunkenburg as the new managing director), seven bands performed every evening; each played a one-hour concert. At times there were also offshoots of the same name in Berlin, Cologne, Bielefeld, Bremen, Kiel, Flensburg, in which the same bands played. By December 1965, Star Club News had its own magazine promoting the concerts. In February 1969 the third phase of the Star Club began in Hamburg. Now Frank Dostal , Achim Reichel and Kuno Dreysse designed the program. Mainly prog rock bands like The Nice , Spooky Tooth , Taste , Yes , Colosseum , East of Eden , Vanilla Fudge , Gun , Steamhammer , Black Sabbath (still called The Earth), but also The Easybeats , Richie Havens , Ohio Express , Bandwagon, and The Tremeloes . However, the audience was often absent on weekdays; the Groundhogs' fee could no longer be paid. The last concert on the day of closure, December 31, 1969, was given by Hardin & York .

Günter Zint , who also worked as a photographer in the club between 1964 and 1969, and his St. Pauli Museum have had a memorial stone erected on the former Star Club site. This stone initially contained two errors: The Who never performed in the Star Club, but were guests in the club; the overzealous stonemason had engraved his favorite group with the design of the stone. Jimi Hendrix was listed on the stele as "Jimmy Hendrix". These two errors have since been eliminated. Jimi Hendrix can now be found in the correct spelling, and instead of The Who, The Rivets have been immortalized. The stylized electric guitar, which the Star Club often depicted as a supplement to the logo (see picture), is a graphic representation of the Saturn 63 model by the German guitar maker Hopf , first published in 1963.

literature

Web links

Commons : Star Club  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tony Bacon: Guitar Classics - all models and manufacturers , p. 152. With a large-format illustration of the guitar model. Premio Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-86706-050-9

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 28.4 ″  E