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The period covered by this receipt represents The Beatles' ninth week of their grueling thirteen-week engagement at The Top Ten Club
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The Beatles And Tony Sheridan
A rare early musicians' salary receipt for The Beatles and Tony Sheridan for seven days work at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg, 27 May - 2 June, 1961, the agreement handwritten in German in an unidentified hand, in blue ink, on a loose page of cash book paper titled Müsiken - Gehalter [Muscians' Salaries] dated 27.5 - 2.6.61, individuallly listing the five Beatles and Tony Sheridan in the following order: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe, Peter Best and Tony Sheridan, and giving details of their matching salaries: 7 Jage á 35. - =245 [7 days at 35 deutsche marks] less tax, giving a total per week for each of DM215, each paragraph signed indivdually by the recipient in blue ballpoint pen: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, J.W. Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe and Peter Best and on behalf of Tony Sheridan: I.A. Ros.Heitmann, overall measurements 18½x15¼in.(47x38.7cm.) framed
A rare early musicians' salary receipt for The Beatles and Tony Sheridan for seven days work at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg, 27 May - 2 June, 1961, the agreement handwritten in German in an unidentified hand, in blue ink, on a loose page of cash book paper titled Müsiken - Gehalter [Muscians' Salaries] dated 27.5 - 2.6.61, individuallly listing the five Beatles and Tony Sheridan in the following order: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe, Peter Best and Tony Sheridan, and giving details of their matching salaries: 7 Jage á 35. - =245 [7 days at 35 deutsche marks] less tax, giving a total per week for each of DM215, each paragraph signed indivdually by the recipient in blue ballpoint pen: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, J.W. Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe and Peter Best and on behalf of Tony Sheridan: I.A. Ros.Heitmann, overall measurements 18½x15¼in.(47x38.7cm.) framed
Literature
LEWISOHN, Mark The Complete Beatles Chronicle, London: Pyramid Books, 1992, pp. 30-33 & 43
GOTTFRIDSSON, Hans Olof The Beatles From Cavern To Star-Club, Stockholm: Premium Publishing, 1997, pp. 66-68
GOTTFRIDSSON, Hans Olof The Beatles From Cavern To Star-Club, Stockholm: Premium Publishing, 1997, pp. 66-68