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Hamburg: The Cradle of British Rock
By Alan Clayson
"People think they are listening to the Liverpool sound," opined Kingsize Taylor, "but what they actually hear is the Hamburg sound because this is where it was created." With the trad jazz stranglehold on many UK venues, acts from other shires gladly accepted work in Hamburg clubs despite punishing shifts, dingy accommodation and energy contrived by amphetamines, quite above board in Germany and useful to ensure that the entertainers' last set of the night was as energetic as the first. Fists often swung as musicians, who maintained ghastly grins, soundtracked serious violence.
Hamburg — The Cradle of British Rock is a frank and often brutal account of how British icons-in-waiting prepared for fame: the music, the personalities, the club scene, the sex, the transvestites, the drugs, the return home...
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