I was there when the Beatles played the Cavern Part 2/5
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- I was there when the Beatles played the Cavern
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first time The Beatles played at The Cavern club in Liverpool, this documentary tells the story of the underground venue which has become synonymous with one of the world's greatest bands - The Beatles.
The programme includes rare archive footage of the Cavern Club in the sixties, including film of The Beatles performing 'Some Other Guy' at the club.
On 9 February 1961, having recently returned to Liverpool from performing in Hamburg, The Beatles played at The Cavern for the first of nearly 300 appearances at the club. .
By the time they played their last gig there, Beatlemania had swept Britain and the band were conquering the world.
The documentary also tells the story of what happened to The Cavern after The Beatles. It lived on until 1973 - with rock legends such as Queen, Elton John and Rod Stewart treading its cramped stage - before it was eventually closed during construction on the Merseyrail underground loop.
But that wasn't the end of The Cavern story. A decade later the club was rebuilt on its original site and today serves a dual purpose as a venue for up and coming bands and a tourist attraction for Beatles fans from across the globe.
In this programme fans, members of other Merseybeat bands and Cavern insiders help separate the facts from the myths that have grown up around the goings on deep beneath the ground at 10 Mathew Street, Liverpool.
Gerry Marsden, who played at The Cavern with Gerry and the Pacemakers, recalls how, above all else, the thing he associates with the club is the smell of disinfectant.
The documentary includes a rare interview with Pete Best, drummer for The Beatles for much of their Cavern period, who left the band just as they started to achieve national fame, and famous Cavernites including playwright Willy Russell relive the heady excitement of their teenage years.
Pete has a great attitude. We can all learn from it
I was there and when I see my self in this film it looks like my first passport photograph has come to life.
Pete Best: This must have been a SHOCK for the rest of his life. When the Beatles rocket was just about to take off . . . . he was tossed.
No they'd simply had a recording contract and it was months before thier first single stalled at no. 17 in the UK charts.
Pete had been offered a new band but turned it down and also refused to play the last couple of dates the beatles had booked.
Mean moody magnificent, atom beat playing Pete best the most popular of the beatles with crowds waiting outside his house to catch a glimpse of him, was mainly his own version of event's, often passed off by others as facts.
Facts are irrefutable and these are he didn't become famous despite many attempts in different bands, so his fans must have quickly vaporised.
He was simply lucky that he cashed in on being an ex Beatle years after they broke up.
Him once being in the band, is why he's now vaguely famous.
Same as ex members of the quarrymen who didn't go on to join the beatles.
They also had many other different drummers in the band, but Pete doesn't band their drum, they also could have been famous if they'd had talent or latched onto a band full of talent
You have to feel for Pete, but what happened to him isn't a mystery and was covered in other docs like Anthology. After the audition, George Martin felt Pete wasn't good enough for recording. He offered to Brian that they could keep Pete for live gigs etc., but the band (and Brian I suppose) were already somewhat dissatisfied. Ringo had filled in a number of times for Pete in Hamburg and the band considered him a mate, so it's no surprise they went directly to Ringo after firing Pete.
i feel sorry for best
John admitted that Pete was better but he was no Beatle.
The Music Bizzsaw.
Lol.. As Luck would have it ITV came to film them for Ringo's opening????
Mona Best had contacted them and arranged it all.. And Jerry..You have it all wrong. George Martin liked using session drummers that he was used to working with as it was easier for him to edit in the end. He didn't want Ringo to play either. When they got back from Hamburg every friggen drummer in Liverpool was copying Pets Best's style and you thing he was a shit drummer??? I hardly think so Jerry..
I think this may be a disappointment to you. This question is sort of asked with hindsight, because at the time it was the music that mattered. And the question is academic now in reality we will never know just enjoy the music.
whats great to see is that pete was not sacked due to him being a bad drummer it was all jealousy .....
They were a shit band that nobody wanted when Pete joined. Hamburg made the Beatles.Without Mona Best's help and Pete on the Drums they would NOT have gotten the Gig. They all worked hard under the worst conditions paying their dues...including Pete. When they got back to Liverpool every friggen Drummer in Liverpool was copying Pete Best's Style and when the Band got their recording contract is when they dumped Pete without so much as a thanks for the help(would not even do it to his face). Keep in mind Brian Epstein would not have been able to go see them in the Cavern if Mona Best had not gotten them in there.. It is easy to say that without the help of the Best Family the Beatles would never have come to fruition and in the end the Best's were kicked away like a rusty ladder.
John understood that the Muses granted their favors through the Band's hard work in Hamburg. If you want to see why Ringo never captured the Beatles signature sound with his solo stuff like John, Paul and George did Pete Best started finally writing music 50 years later..and listening to his album Hayman's Green will drive the point home for you to see. His music proves he was a Beatle and still is!!