The Star-Club was a music club in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany

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 that opened Friday 13 April 1962 and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder and Horst Fascher

Horst Fascher

Horst Fascher is a previous German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany....

. In the sixties, many of the giants of rock music

Rock music

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 played at the club. The club closed on 31 December 1969 and the building it occupied was destroyed by a fire in 1987. The address in Hamburg area St. Pauli

St. Pauli

St. Pauli , located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough, is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...

 was: Große Freiheit 39; Große Freiheit

Große Freiheit

The Große Freiheit is a cross street on the North Side to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. Pauli quarter. It is part of the so called red light district or Kiez.-History:...

is a side street of the Reeperbahn

Reeperbahn

The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...

.

The club achieved worldwide renown through the performances of the Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

, who played there 13 April 1962 - 31 May 1962 and started another round of performances 1 November 1962.