Hempel’s Beatles Tour

Top Ten

1961: The Beatles become more and more local heroes. 92 nights in a row they play on the stage of the Top Ten: “Mach Schau!” They are the backing band of the great Tony Sheridan and they record their first real single. Producer of “My Bonnie” is Bert Kaempfert.

The single is released then as “Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers” because the record company Polydor does not like the name “The Beatles”. In the course of the following years it will sell 1,000,000 copies, most of them now under the name of “The Beatles & Tony Sheridan”.