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The Beatles: Don't Fear The Reeperbahn

Johnny Black, 'The Beatles: Ten Years that Shook the World', 2004

"LIVERPOOL AND HAMBURG had a lot in common in the early sixties," muses Gibson Kemp. "They're both seaports, they're both on the same line of latitude – 56 degrees North – and they were both full of teenagers who were looking for something new."

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