On 18 August 1960 a band from Liverpool performed on Indra’s stage, a band not yet known in most parts of the world.  Their name: The Beatles. At that time still performing with Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe they had only arrived in Hamburg on the previous day. This was to be the first of a total of 48 gigs in the course of which they came to learn the ropes of showmanship and from a shy band they became a local sensation.
When the Beatles made their debut, Indra itself had already been an old stager of the Hamburg nightlife. Back in the 1950s acrobatic beauty dancers, oriental sword artists and the Kurt Fischer dance band entertained their pleasure-seeking audience.