The original tapes which features the performances of The Beatles at a strip club in Hamburg, Germany in the Christmas of 1962 will be put up for auction in London this coming March and is expected to fetch around £150,000.

Before they came to be known as The Beatles, one of the most greatest and influential group of musicians in the world, John, Paul, Ringo and George were just like many aspiring musicians, playing in small-time gigs, awaiting discovery. In 1962, before they were the icons we know today, the band played a series of performances at the Star Club, a local strip club in Hamburg where they entertained eight hours nonstop every day, fuelled by Preludin.

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Good news for Beatles aficionados: the performances have been recorded on tape and they're up for auction!

Ted Owen and Co Auctioneers, an auction house based in London, is putting up some sets of said edited and unedited tapes, featuring 33 of the tracks which were recorded at the Star Club.

Media reports say that their performance of 'Twist and Shout, their covers of 'Roll Over Beethoven' and 'To Know Her is to Love Her' are among the tracks featured in the tapes, which were recorded by Ted 'King Size' Taylor.

According to the catalogue released by said auction house, the set will contain more than 28 songs from The Beatles' Christmas 1962 performance, 'all live and raw'.

Furthermore, the tapes will come with a full hard-backed history of its origin and also an ownership title. Media outlets say that it would contain the original release of Apple, the record label behind The Beatles, as well as the offers made to Yoko Ono, John Lennon's wife.

"When they were playing the gigs in Hamburg they were basically a comedy act," Ted Owen says, describing the band before their rise to fame. "They had to keep people entertained because it was basically a strip club."

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