Although the Top Ten Club is not mentioned on this document, this salary receipt and those in the following two lots were found, along with those previously included at auction here, at that address, 136 Reeperbahn, Hamburg, in an accounts ledger, some years later.

The period covered by this receipt represents the Beatles' eighth week of their gruelling thirteen week engagement at the Top Ten Club on Hamburg's Reeperbahn. The hours were long and the salaries 'modest'. According to the terms of their agreement with Peter Eckhorn, the club's owner, they were required to perform between 7.00pm and 2.00am on Mondays to Fridays, from 7.00pm to 3.00am on Saturdays and from 6.00pm to 1.00am on Sundays, with a 15-minute break every hour. They also had their all-in accomodation thrown-in...dingy - old army bunk-beds in the attic four flights above the club... for 35 DM [£3] per day. As with their first trip to Hamburg, this second engagement had an enormously beneficial effect on the group's performance and technique. As Mark Lewisohn remarked....13 weeks at the Top Ten club, playing a staggering total of 503 hours on stage over 92 nights....It was little wonder then that....their [The Beatles] stamina and musical versatility improved dramatically as the visit wore on. When they returned to Liverpool in July they were simply untouchable