POP/ROCK - April 13, 1987

Twenty-five years ago today four lads from Liverpool climbed onstage at Hamburg’s Star Club and introduced German audiences to Mersey Beat. Two thousand fans waited outside for hours to get in to see the pop sensation, which only recently had changed its name to the Beatles. But if you were to ask Horst Fascher, who ran the club sporadically from 1962 through 1969, he’d say that April 13, 1962, “was hell.” “You never saw such crazy people,” Fascher said.