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Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto, Brazil I had barely heard of Belo Horizonte until I went there. That was an oversight for someone as well-traveled as I like to think I am, given that Belo Horizonte, a metropolis of 5 million people, is the third-largest city in Brazil. Only Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, which everyone has heard of, are bigger. -- Click here to read the entire article Sampling the 17TH Century, Down Uruguay Way COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay - Unaccountably, on a just-completed trip my wife Georgina and I took to Argentina and Chile, we got the urge to go to Uruguay. I say unaccountably, because I have rarely even thought of the place, let alone thought about actually visiting it. -- Click here to read the entire article The Beatles in Hamburg, Revisited Of course you know that the Beatles learned to play rock & roll in the grotty music clubs of Hamburg, Germany. More specifically, the Fab Four, while still in their teens in the early 1960s, played cover versions of songs by better-known musicians like Britrocker Tony Sheridan in the St. Pauli district near Hamburg’s bustling seaport. More specifically still, the still-raw Liverpudians played in clubs along the Reeperbahn, the main drag in Hamburg’s redlight district. Even more specifically than that, the lads passed rocking, beery, sweaty hours on-stage in rock venues such as Indra, the Top Ten, the Kaiserkeller and, most famously, the Star Club. |
