Fact #78640
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Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers play at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg, Germany, Europe. Liverpudlian drummer Richard Starkey has now joined the group. Starkey will find greater fame as Ringo Starr of The Beatles.
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Dave Dee (of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich) : At the Top Ten (during 1962) we would play an hour on and an hour off, fourteen hours a day for seven days a week. We were absolutely knackered after the second week and this waiter arrived on stage with five rum and Cokes and some Preludin tablets. We took them at two in the morning and we never went to bed until the following night. I was flying ten feet off the ground but it was never a habit I got into. (Source : The Independent, January 10, 2009)
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