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Tag Archives: Cavern Club

Apr 16 1 comments
Films, VOW

The Beatles’ First Video

Since this footage pre-dates even their first 45, Love Me Do, we are lucky it has been preserved at all. This is The Beatles covering the old RIchie Barrett hit, Some Other Guy at the infamous Cavern Club. Granada Television filmed The Beatles with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, on August 22, 1962, to “possibly” [...]

Jan 11 8 comments
BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Catswalk (1962 Cavern Club rehearsal)

Welcome to this week’s BROW, which turns out to not only be a triple feature, but also a salute to a very significant man in Beatles history known as Chris Barber. Read on… One of the main things that inspired John Lennon to form up his band The Quarry Men was the “skiffle-craze”. When UK [...]

Jan 08 0 comments
MOG-era BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – To Know Her Is To Love Her (Decca audition)

Welcome to BROW. It’s a snowy day in my neighborhood. This week’s post takes a look at another snowy January Monday, 47 years ago, when The Beatles, supervised by A&R assistant Mike Smith played 15 songs, carefully selected by their new manager Brian Epstein, for Decca Records in West Hampstead, London in hopes of securing [...]

Aug 08 0 comments
MOG-era BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Some Other Guy (Cavern Club)

Welcome to the weekend and to this weeks BROW. This recording was made on August 22, 1962 at one of The Beatles’ infamous Cavern Club gigs in Liverpool, only four days after Ringo Starr joined the band and less than two weeks before recording their first single Love Me Do. It was a Ritchie Barrett [...]