I got my education in Hamburg with the rest of the boys. It was quite something. We played at the Indra Club on the Grosse Freiheit street.
We had to play for hours and hours on end. Every song lasted twenty minutes and had twenty solos in it. That's what improved the playing. There was nobody to copy from. We played what we liked best and the Germans liked it as long as it was loud.
By the time you got to Hamburg, a girlfriend there was likely to be a stripper, so to be suddenly involved with a hard-core striptease artist, who obviously knew a thing or two about sex... it was quite an eye-opener
A clean bill of health was carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s, which inspired our song, Ticket to Ride.