When The Beatles ventured to Hamburg, Germany in the late 1950s they were welcomed with a residency slot. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison were joined by their bassist at the time, Stuart Sutcliffe, as well as their first drummer Pete Best. The band lived their rock and roll lifestyle to the fullest and were shacked up in a concrete room between performing music every night.

McCartney later revealed: “The room had been an old storeroom, and there were just concrete walls and nothing else.

“No heat, no wallpaper, not a lick of paint; and two sets of bunk beds, like little camp beds, with not very many covers. We were frozen.”

With just one room between the five of them, the boys didn’t have much to hide from one another.

Harrison was the youngest of the group at just 17-years-old. In fact, he was so young that he got in trouble with the local police over working abroad.

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Harrison was deported from Germany in November 1960 after it was discovered he was 17-years-old working abroad. Eventually, he made his way back to continue his residency slot with the rest of the band. Before that, however, that the concrete room The Beatles slept in was the venue used for Harrison losing his virginity. After bringing a girl back to the band’s headquarters, everyone else in the room listened with anticipation. Harrison recalled: “We were in bunkbeds. They couldn’t really see anything because I was under the covers.” And you won’t believe what the rest of the band did after Harrison had done the deed.

McCartney said: “That was the intimacy we had … I’d walked in on John and seen a little bottom bobbing up and down with a girl underneath him.

“It was perfectly normal. You’d go: ‘Oh, sorry,’ and back out the room.”

It wasn’t long before everything changed for The Beatles, however.

Shortly after the band finished one of their residency slots in 1962, they met Brian Epstein, the man who would become their manager.

Shortly after signing the band, Epstein promised The Beatles they would never play for less than £15 ever again.

Within the next year, the Fab Four had hit their stride, and reached the top ten in the UK Singles Charts, before eventually going on to tour America.

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