Many will remember the club The Cavern like the place where Paul MCCARTNEY, John Lennon Y George Harrison took their first steps as musicians before becoming the worldwide phenomenon ‘The Beatles’. Now, this mythical Liverpool bar is back on the radar after two unpublished photographs of the British group playing their first songs before becoming famous were found.
These photos were taken in july 1961almost a year before the band released their iconic first single ‘Love Me Do’. In the images you can see Lennon and McCartney at the microphone, with Harrison on guitar already Pete Best in the background, the original drummer of the band before the arrival of Ringo Starr.
The photos were shared by the distributor of collectible objects of the ‘Beatles’, Tracks Ltd., to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the release of ‘Love Me Do’ in 1962 with the Parlophone label in the United Kingdom.
The unknown photos of ‘The Beatles’ at The Cavern bar
Paul Wane, general manager of ‘Tracks’, said in an interview for CNN that the photos were taken by a fan who followed the band in the early 1960s and who also owned a camera, which was unusual for The time.
“Not many people had cameras at the time,” Wane told the television station. “That’s why there are so few photos of the Beatles in the Cavern. There are very, very, very few.”
According to the distributor, the photographer who captured these historic moments is still alive and is a resident of the suburbs of Liverpool; however, he does not want his name to be in the public domain. According to Wane, he was a big fan of the band and accompanied them to some of their early concerts, also “talking to them”, he claimed.
On the impressions these photographs caused once they came to light, the well-known ‘Beatles’ historian, Mark Lewisohn, said that the snapshots were taken during a show “for a noon or night audience in July 1961 […] Just arrived from Hamburg, with 500 hours of concert in 90 days, the Beatles are undernourished young people of 20 (John), 19 (Paul and Pete) and 18 (George), “he explained.
“This marathon made them so thin that their heads and bodies seem weirder. An aspect that is accentuated by the unusual clothing: leather pants and cotton tops. Days later, Brian Epstein saw the Beatles at The Cavern, offered to manage him, and set them on a course that changed our world.”
‘The Beatles’ formed in Liverpool in 1960 and broke up just 10 years later in 1970. During their 10-year career, they established themselves as one of the most influential rock bands in the world with 20 Billboard number 1s over the years. throughout his career.
With ‘Beatlemania’ they conquered the music industry, but in April 1970 they announced their separation to the shock of their fans, who pointed to Paul McCartney as the culprit for the band’s dissolution. Years later, McCartney revealed that it was John Lennon who actually instigated the group’s split.
“John walked into the room one day and said, ‘I’m leaving The Beatles.’ And he said, ‘It’s pretty exciting. It’s like a divorce. “And he left us to pick up the pieces,” McCartney said in an interview for the BBC.
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