Star-Club

The Star-Club was a music club in Hamburg, Germany, that opened on Friday 13 April 1962, and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder and Horst Fascher. In the 1960s, many of the giants of rock music played at the club. The club closed on 31 December 1969 and the building it occupied was destroyed by a fire in 1987. The address of the club was "Große Freiheit 39" in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. "Große Freiheit" is a side street of the Reeperbahn. The club had a capacity of 2,000 people, and cinema-style seating.
The club achieved worldwide renown through the performances of The Beatles, who played there 13 April – 31 May, 1–14 November, and 18–31 December 1962. A performance or parts of several performances from the end of the latter stay was or were recorded on a home tape machine, and a remixed version was released in 1977 as "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962".
The Beatles' first Hamburg Club performance was at the Indra Club (also on Große Freiheit) on 17 August 1960.
Musicians who played at Star-Club.
List of musicians who played in the Star-Club: 
Star-Club Records.
In October 1962, Siegfried Loch, label manager for Philips Records, visited the Star-Club for a concert with Fats Domino. Loch persuaded Manfred Weissleder, the manager of Star-Club, to give him permission to set up recording equipment in the club. He started a record label, Star-Club Records, subsidiary of Philips Records.