Hamburg in 1945 was a catastrophe- "a pile of rubble full of semi-starving cave dwellers". Yet in just over a decade it became a sparkling place of noise and music. In the first of two programmes
Alan Dein walks the neon-lit strip that is Hamburg's Reeperbahn in search of the singers, survivors, hustlers and performers that turned Hamburg into the cradle Of British Beat. Producer Mark Burman