The night of Nov. 29, 1960 ended with Paul McCartney and Pete Best being arrested for arson.

The band members having already dealt with the recent deportation of George Harrison after authorities discovered he was only 17. They were also at odds with Bruno Koschmider, the owner of the Kaiserkeller, the club where they’d been playing.

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When Koschmider had terminated the Beatles' Kaiserkeller contract earlier in the month after learning they'd entered into an agreement with one of his rivals the band knew they needed to move their belongings out of the building where they'd been staying.
Unfortunately for McCartney and Best, when being forced to move, the two "accidentally" lit a fire and ended up burning one of the walls.

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“He’d told them that we’d tried to burn his place down and they said, ‘Leave, please. Thank you very much but we don’t want you to burn our German houses,'” McCartney recalled in the biography Many Years from Now. “Funny, really, because we couldn’t have burned the place even if we had gallons of petrol — it was made of stone.”

The following day, they were escorted out of the country, leaving John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe the last Beatles standing in Hamburg!

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