the beatles played in clubs in hamburg
some sources state that mccartney and the other beatles tried a variety of instruments including drums and an organ and that george martin later persuaded them to allow mccartney to play his epiphone texan steelstring acoustic guitar later overdubbing a string quartet for backup
 hamburgs famous zoo the tierpark hagenbeck was founded in 1907 by carl hagenbeck as the first zoo with moated barless enclosures