5 - Episode 5 – The Hedgehog

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5 - Episode 5 – The Hedgehog

Episode 5 – The Hedgehog Manfred Weissleder made cheap sex films and ran sex clubs but when he purchased Stern-Kino on Grosse Freiheit 39, it was too big and not intimate enough for sex and so it became a beat club, opening in April 1962. He hired Horst Fascher as manager, who immediately recruited Tony Sheridan and the Beatles. Also the Searchers, Lee Curtis and the All-Stars, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes and the Liverbirds, all from Liverpool, had residencies at the Star-Club. There are many stories of the difficulties of getting to Hamburg, insulting Horst Fascher by accident (well, no-one would do it on purpose) and the disgusting story of the hedgehog, involving the Beatles and told with relish by Lee Curtis for the first time anywhere. There was the comfort of the Seamen’s Mission where the groups could have an English breakfast.

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