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Let The Good Times Roll: The Star-Club founder tells his story. Kindle Edition

by Horst Fascher (Author), Oliver Flesch (Author), Garrelt Danker (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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With the opening of the Star-Club, on April 13th, 1962 at Number 39, „Grosse Freiheit“, Hamburg / Germany, one of the most important epochs in pop history began. The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Cream, Small Faces, Ozzy Osbourne and many more performed here. The superstars of the rock scene streamed in and out of the Star-Club, in the red-light district of „St. Pauli“. The man who made this possible was Horst Fascher. A Hamburg native, born in 1936 near the port, who came closer to the superstars than almost any other in Germany. He combined cultural and pop history in one life: Refugee child, tearaway, world-class boxer, Beatles forerunner, Star-Club founder, prison inmate, Vietnam volunteer, music promoter, self-made man, and chronicler of an era, that hasn't been told like this before. Relentlessly open and without pretensions, Horst Fascher reports about the excesses of life behind the scenes. His bizarre and touching memories take the reader back to those wild, golden times of Rock'n´Roll. This is the English translation of the German-language Best-Seller from 2006. With many additions, especially for the years 2006 to 2020.

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The idea to process my turbulent life in a book first came to me when my friend, the Star-Club boss Manfred Weissleder, died a miserable death. For a few stellar hours of pop culture, the Star-Club was the most magical place in the world, and I wanted to erect a monument to him.
This book is for people who are interested in the story behind the story. For the real fans. For people like Jürgen Warres, who took his rickety moped across the transit route all the way from Berlin to see the Beatles just once. For the countless Rock 'n' Rollers who had to save up the money for tickets and beer from their hard-earned money. I still meet many of them today; most of them say: "My time in the Star-Club was the best time of my life".
I only had the pleasure of the Star-Club for three years. The party was over in 1965. However, life went on after I had to leave. I lived through, or rather survived, the war in Vietnam and then returned to form the Les Humphries Singers, which was one of the most successful bands of the seventies. I reopened the Star-Club and had to cope with some strokes of fate that were so hard that I still wonder today how I managed it.
There is also another reason for this book. For reasons I cannot comprehend, some "self-appointed guardians of the Grail" try to play down the excesses of the Beatles during their Hamburg period. The mantra is: "What must not be, cannot be". But the fact is that the Beatles' life in St. Pauli was pure Rock 'n' Roll, with all its facets, the good and the bad. And why not? After all, they were doing exactly what every other boy their age was doing. "I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool," John once admitted. And he was right about that. I know because I was there. Horst Fascher

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B089FMXVF3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ GDMP (May 29, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 29, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 25947 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,635,183 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #127,816 in Biographies & Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- #422,007 in Biographies (Books)

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With the opening of the Star-Club, on April 13th, 1962 at Number 39, „Grosse Freiheit“, Hamburg / Germany, one of the most important epochs in pop history began. The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Cream, Small Faces and many more performed here. The superstars of the rock scene streamed in and out of the Star-Club, in the red-light district of „St. Pauli“.

The man who made this possible was Horst Fascher. A Hamburg native, born in 1936 near the port, who came closer to the superstars than almost any other in Germany.

He combined cultural and pop history in one life: Refugee child, tearaway, world-class boxer, Beatles forerunner, Star-Club founder, prison inmate, Vietnam volunteer, music promoter, self-made man, and chronicler of an era, that hasn't been told like this before.

Relentlessly open and without pretensions, Horst Fascher reports about the excesses of life behind the scenes. His bizarre and touching memories take the reader back to those wild, golden times of Rock'n´Roll.

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Horst frankly relates his own checkered past, how he became associated with the Hamburg Clubs scene and more specifically with John, George, Peter & Paul, The original Beatles. Horst had less to do with Stuart and Ringo but they and Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and others all had memorable run in's with our hero, Horst, who spends the majority of the book relating his own life and times, I say it's a very interesting read ad a must for every Beatles fan who does not mind being shocked by some really nasty recollections from Horst's own world of rock & roll... from jail time to good times.

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