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Beatles' early years drama starts filming in Germany
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- Hamburg Days will chart the band's early era when they performed more than 250 gigs in the German port city between 1960 and 1962.
- It has been inspired by the memoirs of artist Klaus Voormann, who played bass on some Beatles records and designed the cover of their Revolver Album in 1966.
- Produced and financed by both British and German companies, Hamburg Days will also film in Merseyside and Munich.
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Rumeana Jahangir North West Gordon Timpen/ Hamburg Films Ltd Hamburg Days will show the band's early years, when they included bassist Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best in their line-up A major new TV drama about the formative years of The Beatles has started production in Germany and Liverpool.
Hamburg Days will chart the band's early era when they performed more than 250 gigs in the German port city between 1960 and 1962.
It has been inspired by the memoirs of artist Klaus Voormann, who played bass on some Beatles records and designed the cover of their Revolver Album in 1966.
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