The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (1977)

The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg; Germany 1962 (1977)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one

Introduction/"I Saw Her Standing There" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 0:34/2:22

"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) – 2:15

"Hippy Hippy Shake" (Chan Romero) – 1:42

"Sweet Little Sixteen" (Berry) – 2:45

"Lend Me Your Comb" (Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman) – 1:44

"Your Feet's Too Big" (Ada Benson, Fred Fisher) – 2:18

Side two

"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell) – 2:03

"Mr. Moonlight" (Roy Lee Johnson) – 2:06

"A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) – 1:45

"Bésame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) – 2:36

"Reminiscing" (King Curtis) – 1:41

"Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Richard Penniman) – 2:09

Side three

"Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)" (Eddie Fontaine, Cirino Colacrai, Diane Lampert, John Gluck) – 1:15

"To Know Her Is to Love Her" (Phil Spector) – 3:02

"Little Queenie" (Berry) – 3:51

"Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" (Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner) – 1:57

"Ask Me Why" (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:26

"Be-Bop-A-Lula" (Gene Vincent, Bill Davis) – 2:29

Guest lead vocal by Fred Fascher, Star-Club waiter

"Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles) – 2:10

Guest lead vocal by Horst Fascher, Star-Club manager

Side four

"Red Sails in the Sunset" (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) – 2:00

"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (Carl Perkins) – 2:25

"Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) – 2:35

"I'm Talking About You" (Berry) – 1:48

"Shimmy Like Kate" (Armand Piron, Fred Smith, Cliff Goldsmith) – 2:17

Based on The Olympics' arrangement of "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate"; sometimes misidentified as "Shimmy Shimmy" or "Shimmy Shake""Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Penniman) – 1:45

"I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 1:54

US version

The US version includes the above except "I Saw Her Standing There", "Twist and Shout", "Reminiscing", and "Ask Me Why", and substitutes the following four songs:

Introduction/"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)" (Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs) – 3:04

"Where Have You Been (All My Life)" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 1:55

"Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) – 1:59

"Sheila" (Tommy Roe) – 1:56

The Beatles Band Members / Musicians

George Harrison – lead guitar; harmony and backing vocals; lead vocal on tracks 2, 11, 13, 21, US17

John Lennon – rhythm guitar; harmony and backing vocals; harmonica on track 26; lead vocal on tracks 4, 5 (shared), 7, 8, 14, 17, 22, 23, 24, US1, US7

Paul McCartney – bass guitar; harmony and backing vocals; lead vocal on tracks 1, 3, 5 (shared), 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 25, 26, US11

Ringo Starr – drums and percussion

Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 is a double album featuring live performances by the English rock band the Beatles, recorded in late December 1962 at the Star-Club during their final Hamburg residency. The album was released in 1977 in two different versions, comprising a total of 30 songs by the Beatles.

The performances were recorded on a home tape machine using a single microphone, resulting in a low fidelity recording. Ted "Kingsize" Taylor began to investigate possible marketing of the tapes in 1973. The tapes were eventually bought by Paul Murphy and subjected to extensive audio processing to improve the sound, leading to the 1977 album.

Although the poor sound quality limits its commercial appeal, the album provides historic insight into the group's club act in the period after Ringo Starr joined but before the emergence of Beatlemania. The Beatles were unsuccessful in legally blocking the initial release of the album; the recordings were reissued in many forms until 1998, when the group were awarded full rights to the performances.