It Was 50 (and 20) Years Ago Today…

… that The Beatles (with Pete Best, not Ringo) took to the stage at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. And this – taken a few years later, is the earliest known filmed performance of The Beatles at the Cavern… and unless I’ve got my Beatles trivia wrong, it’s also one of their first gigs with Ringo; Beatles Nerds listen to the end of the clip, you can clearly hear a die-hard Pete Best fan yell out “We Want Pete!” followed by a feminine chorus of “RINGO!!!!”

The original Cavern Club, in the mid-60s, sometime AFTER the Beatles heyday; at the top left corner you can see the words 'here 282 times'... which is how many times The Beatles appeared there.

And it’s 20 years ago this year that my best friend Claude and I ended our undergrad university careers with a trip to Europe to “find ourselves” … hint: we weren’t there.

But after meeting 2 British girls in the town of Český Krumlov in Czech Republic a few weeks earlier (they taught us how to order boiled potatoes in Czech), we found ourselves invited to stay at one of their houses in Liverpool, England, checking out as many Beatles haunts we could,  both in Liverpool and later on in London as well.

The original Cavern Club was torn down at some point in the 1970s for some new commercial development that didn’t end up happening, but a pretty good duplicate (which I was told included the original stage, transported brick by brick) was built across the street… and into which I wandered and took this picture:

The (New) Cavern Club, circa 1991. Mid-afternoon. No band. The waitstaff let us in.
Penny Lane, believe it or not. That's me and our Liverpool host, Pip.
Penny Lane: the shelter in the middle of the roundabout, which was (in 1991, at least) a little restaurant called ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’.

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Me and Claude, Strawberry Field, August, 1991.

2 thoughts on “It Was 50 (and 20) Years Ago Today…”

  1. Great photos and great memories, Marcel! You’re so lucky to have gone. I read in “A Hard Day’s Write” that the “shelter in the middle of a roundabout” is now a little restaurant called “Sgt. Pepper’s”.

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