The BBC TV series Hamburg Days, about The Beatles’ pre-fame origins playing nightclub gigs in 1960s Germany, has cast its Fab Four. Rhys Mannion has been tapped to play John Lennon, Ellis Murphy is Paul McCartney, newcomer Harvey Brett will play George Harrison and Louis Landau is Stu Sutcliffe, the drummer in the upstart band who walked away before replacement Ringo Starr took up the drumsticks. The legendary band went on to dominate the music industry for an entire decade from 1960. The six-part drama from W&B Television and Turbine Studios has also cast Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, Luna Jordan as Astrid Kirchherr, Casper von Bulow as Klaus Voorman, Laura Tonke as Nielsa Kirchherr, along with Trystan Pütter and Max von der Groeben. The Beatles broke up in 1970 after a period of wild popularity. They are the bestselling music act of all time, with an estimated 600 million units sold around the world. In December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment in New York City. The Hamburg Days series financed by AGC Television and German broadcaster coincides with Sony producing Sam Mendes’ four-film Beatles …