Author: Joe

Liverpudlian promoter Charlie ‘Mac’ McBain held regular skiffle and rock events at his venues. On Friday 18 October 1957 he ran one such event, at the New Clubmoor Hall …

The Cavern Club would become a regular venue for Beatles shows while they remained a Liverpool secret. Once Beatlemania took hold, however, they rarely played in their home city …

6 July 1957 was a pivotal day for the history of modern music: it was the day that John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time.

The Quarrymen played twice on this day. In the afternoon they performed on the back of a stationary coal lorry, and that evening took part in a street party, …

The Cavern Club, which was to become world-famous after The Beatles performed there nearly 200 times, opened its doors for the first time on the night of 16 January …

Paul McCartney saw skiffle king Lonnie Donegan perform at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on 11 November 1956.

The rock ‘n’ roll fanatic John Lennon used his 16th birthday money to buy two much-prized 78rpm records.

Keen for his son to follow his interest in music, Jim McCartney bought his son Paul a trumpet for his 14th birthday.

Jane Asher, who was in a relationship with Paul McCartney between 1963 and 1968, was born on 5 April 1946 in Willesden, north London.

While her husband Alf was away at sea, Julia Lennon lived with their son John at the Dairy Cottage, 120a Allerton Road in Woolton, Liverpool. The cottage was owned …

George Harrison was born on 25 February 1943 in a tiny ‘two up, two down’ house on Arnold Grove, a cul-de-sac in the Wavertree area of Liverpool.

Paul McCartney was born on 18 June 1942.

Linda Louise Eastman, the future first wife of Paul McCartney, was born in New York City on 24 September 1941.

Fourteen months before the birth of their eldest son Paul, James McCartney married Mary Mohin in Liverpool, England.