This is the first book dealing with the sole German tour!

The Beatles took quite some time after they had said goodbye to Hamburg on January 1st,1963 after their last Star-Club engagement. It wasn‘t until June 23, 1966 that they returned to Germany for five days and six concerts in Munich, Essen and Hamburg.

This book deals with this German tour in a chronological order.

It explains the difficulties everybody had to pull the tour through as well as the actual preparations by the promoter and the police. Every little thing that happened in those hot five days is described in great detail in a minute-by-minute-coverage.

For the first time the surprisingly highly complicated advance sales of the tickets are examined. Also for the first time documents from the promoters were examined.

All surviving press conferences, interviews and song announcements are transcribed in their exact wording. Furthermore, fans will discover detailed descriptions of all known footage - even some unknown until this book - and audio-recordings, a list of all places the Beatles visited during those days and what they look like today, a short historical overview of the then current events in Germany, as well as an account of a German Beatles concert in 1967 that never happened.

Add to this countless unpublished photographs and images of memorabilia, like concert tickets, autographs and documents from the biggest private collections. You will be sure to find many surprising new facts!

This is the definite book on the Bravo-Beatles-Blitztour through Germany!

Some samples of rare memorabilia in the book!