Purple Reign

From somewhere on the Internet:

Today in 1960: the first onstage photos of the group called ‘The Beatles' - taken, according to George, on the first night of their first Hamburg stint, at the Indra on Grosse Freiheit.

They made a deal with the devil in terms of their performing hours:

8:00-9:30pm, 10:00-11:00pm, 11:30pm-12:30am and 1:00-2:00am during the week; 7:00-8:30pm, 9:00-10:00pm, 10:30-11.30pm, midnight-1:00am and 1:30-3:00am on Saturdays; and 5:00-6:00pm, 6:30-7:30pm, 8:00-9:00pm, 9:30-10:30pm, 11:00-midnight and 12:30-1:30am on Sundays. That's 34.5 weekly hours of singing and playing.

"The city of Hamburg was brilliant," George would recall about his perspective as a 17-year-old. "A big lake and then the dirty part. The Reeperbahn and Grosse Freiheit were the best thing we'd ever seen, clubs and neon lights everywhere and lots of restaurants and entertainment. It looked really good."

And so it would turn out to be, in more ways than one.

Wait - was this colorized? Were their jackets purple? Because if so I AM GETTING ME ONE!!!!!!