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Chapter 7 - The Beatles in Performance: From Dance Hall Days to Stadium Tours

from Part II - The Beatles in Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2020

Kenneth Womack
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Monmouth University, New Jersey
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Liverpool, England: one afternoon in November 1961, a well-dressed man arrived at the entrance of a wildly popular club. He carefully descended the narrow, precipitous steps to a dark, dank, smoke-filled cellar reeking of boiled hot dogs, rotting fruit, and cleaning fluid. Pushing his way across a crowded floor filled with the younger set on a lunch break, the man observed the band playing on a tiny illuminated stage. Everyone at the Cavern Club that afternoon was there for one thing: gritty, sweat-infused rock ’n’ roll. The four young men delivering it were what had attracted that well-dressed man, Brian Epstein. He wanted to see for himself what was causing such a shaking underneath the city’s Mathew Street.

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