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  Cavern Club
The Cavern Club, opened on January 16, 1957, is a legendary rock and roll club at 10 Matthew Street, Liverpool, England, where Brian Epstein was introduced to the Beatles in 1961.
In the decade that followed, a wide variety of popular acts appeared at the club including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Elton John, The Who and John Lee Hooker.The club closed its doors in March of 1973, and was demolished during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop.
A new Cavern Club, now owned by Joe Davey[?] was rebuilt across the road from the original location, and opened in April of 1984.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cavern_Club.html   (372 words)

  
 Beatles Cavern Club
PAUL McCARTNEY-First session at the Cavern Club was with the Quarrymen on 24 January 1958.
GEORGE HARRISON-First session at the Cavern Club was with the Beatles during the lunch session on 9 February, 1961.
PETE BEST-Last session at the Cavern Club with the Beatles was on 15 August, 1962.
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 Beatles64 - Cavern Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Cavern Club was filled in and remained intact until 1982.
When The Cavern reopened on its original site, many locals believed the 30 foot sign and plaque on the opposite side of the street were indicators of the site of the original Cavern Club.
The bricks of the Club were saved and treated and used in the building of the Cavern Club, which stands today.
www.beatles64.co.uk /cavstory.htm   (1290 words)

  
 The Cavern - A Brief History 1
Sound travelled around the club beautifully, especially the sound of a Jazz trumpet, which Alan was obviously was a fan of.
The first notable band to play Skiffle at the Cavern was the 'Gin Mill Skiffle Group', a local band whom was formed by Tony Davis and Mick Groves (later of the Spinners).
Skiffle grew and grew at the club, until it was decided to use the Skiffle bands as launching pad for a new lunchtime opening.
www.merseybeat.ndo.co.uk /cavern1.htm   (537 words)

  
 Cavern Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cavern Club, which was opened on January 16, 1957, is a legendary rock and roll club at 10 Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, where Brian Epstein was introduced to the Beatles on 9 November 1961.
Alan Sytner opened the club having been inspired by Paris's Jazz district, on the city's Left Bank, where there were a number of clubs in cellars.
During 1963, The Hollies took The Beatles slot at the Cavern Club.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cavern_Club   (992 words)

  
 Cavern Days - John Reid - Mersey Beat
They sold the club to Roy Adams who was equally impressed by the Klubs and we continued to play as much as ever with more and more top acts like Chuck Berry, Chris Farlowe, Ben E King, Long John Baldry and many more.
Strife carried on playing the Cavern and I can remember using a lot of the midweek gigs as a vehicle to experiment with new songs and developing the style of the band and eventually released two albums, and went on to play worldwide and the re-releases of the CDs are still selling today.
The Cavern then closed with Strife as headlining act on the final night, probably playing the last ever “live chord” at this great historic event, and moved over the road to a completely different style of premises and predictably was never the same.
triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/caverndays2.shtml   (662 words)

  
 Cavern Club
The The Cavern Club is definitely the most exciting thing to happen to Adelaide attractions and dining venues, with its stunning décor, friendly staff and live entertainment.
The Cavern Club is famous for The Beatles and many other world renowned acts that graced it’s stage over its existence including The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, The Who, Queen, The Kinks plus many more – too numerous to mention.
The Cavern Club is an ideal function room fully themed with bar and restaurant facilities catering for all age groups from six to sixty.
www.thecavern.com.au   (295 words)

  
 Mersey Venues: The Cavern - Bill Harry - Mersey Beat
The loyal troglodytes (one of the names by which the Cavern 'regulars' were known) wished to support McFall and keep the club open, but the bailiffs were called in.
The Cavern itself was buried in rubble and when the railway work had been completed, the site was turned into a car park.
As a result, although it occupied 50% of the former Cavern Club site, it had a different entrance and instead of merely walking down eighteen steps into the club, a new entrance with a large spiral staircase had to be constructed with at least thirty steps.
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 A Surprise Appearance at the Cavern Club by Tom Slemen
Furthermore, regarding the tale's reference to a ghost in the Cavern Club; according to an article in the Liverpool Echo in the late 1950s, the manager of the Cavern claimed that there was a ghost that haunted the ladies toilets in the club...
In the late 1950s, three men went to the club one evening with their girlfriends, and had a great time listening to the jazz bands well into the early hours.
At this point, one of the men's girlfriends, a girl named Rita, said that one of the toilets in the Cavern were said to be haunted, but Peter, who was a hard-boiled sceptic, said the ghost story was probably just a publicity gimmick invented by the Cavern's owner, Alan Sytner.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Film/4215/caverndevil.html   (1271 words)

  
 Cavern Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Cavern was named after "Le Caveau Francais Jazz Club" in Paris and opens in Liverpool, England, under the direction of Alan Sytner.
The club's musical policy at the time was jazz, and we went on while the jazz boys took a break and went out for a pint.
Melody Maker once wrote that the band was the "largest success since the Beatles in the Cavern Club, the German equivalent, The Rattles." They have been one of the acts to a Rolling Stones tour and in the summer of 1966, the Rattles accompanied the Beatles on their Germany route.
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 Cavern club Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
The difference between cavern and cave diving is that caverns always have a source of sunlight.
Anyone with an Open Water diving qualification can sign up for cavern diving, but cave diving, which takes you beyond the sunlit areas into very dark, tight spaces, requires rigorous training: we won't be straying beyond the cavern walls.
I mirror him, and we continue touring the outer edge of the cavern, squeezing through narrow sections where the bottom and the walls meet 17m down, peering into tunnels where only the cave-trained dare go.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060708/ai_n16529871   (888 words)

  
 The Cavern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
You can find The Cavern Club in Mathew Street In an early add for the Fab Four it was said to be "Off North John St" (time to take a look at your Anthology covers!!).
The Cavern Club in Liverpool is not the original.
The old Cavern stood on the same site but was demolished in the Mid 1970's (in an act of sheer vandalism) to make way for a new underground line (Which incidentally was never built).
www.upv.es /~ecabrera/cavern.html   (419 words)

  
 There Is A Cavern
The Cavern was entered from Mathew Street by a steep stairway of 18 stone steps, and the club’s three long, barrel-vault "tunnels" stood in a row to the right of the bottom of the steps.
The Cavern Club was reopened on 23 July 1966 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in gala ceremonies attended by Liverpool MP [Member Of Parliament] Bessie Braddock, comedian Ken Dodd, radio personality Jimmy Savile, members of the Liverpool and Everton football clubs, and a galaxy of local celebrities and musicians.
A portion of the new club would overlap the site of the old club, and sections of the new club’s brick walls would be built with some of the thousands of bricks retrieved from the ruins of the original club.
members.aol.com /scottwheelerband/cavernhistory.htm   (6022 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/thecavernclub
The Cavern is a private All-Ages music venue in Xenia, Ohio.
The Cavern is located in the basement of our coffeeshop, the Express Yourself Coffeehouse Gallery just a block east of the Greene Co. Courthouse downtown.
The Cavern is also available to rent for shows, meetings, receptions, private parties, and reunions.
www.myspace.com /thecavernclub   (747 words)

  
 Paul at the Cavern Club
Paul is to rock The Cavern as a tribute to the rock and roll musical force that has so shaped the last part of the last century of the millenium.
Since Paul last played at The Cavern, he has performed 587 live concerts with The Beatles, Wings and as a solo artists (252 with The Beatles, 142 with Wings, 193 as a solo artist).
The press conference took place in front of the wall in the club that featured the names of many of the groups that played The Cavern in its heyday.
www.beatlesnews.com /paulcavern.htm   (1613 words)

  
 Paul McCartney: Live at the Cavern Club! (2000)
On December 14, 1999, 300 people squeezed into the Cavern Club in Liverpool to watch Paul MacCartney perform at The Beatles' legendary venue for the first time since 1963.
Paul McCartney Live At the Cavern Club appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.78:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
There are a few notes about the history of the Cavern Club, and we also find biographies of the musicians who play with McCartney.
www.dvdmg.com /liveatthecavernclub.shtml   (3980 words)

  
 The Cavern Club - Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Cavern Quarter, which encircles world famous Mathew Street, is a vibrant city centre area at the focus of Beatle history, but there's so much else on offer to people of all ages, whether Liverpudlians or tourists.
For Fab Four fans there's the Cavern Club - where the lads played 292 times - Cavern pub and the actual pubs, The Grapes and White Star, where the lads drank during the early 60s.
The Cavern Quarter, which is accessible from various Liverpool shopping areas, is growing as a popular night time and weekend drinking area.
www.liverpool.com /attractions-profile-cavern-club.html   (299 words)

  
 Beatle Clubs & Pubs
The Cavern closed in 1973 and was demolished in a particularly brilliant feat of civic planning.
A reconstructed Cavern Club opened a decade later, built to the specifications of the original and occupying part of the orignal site (the remainder is lost forever beneath the neighboring parking lot).
The Blue Angel (108 Seel Street) was another club run by Allan Williams and was the scene of the Beatles' 1960 audition for impresario Larry Parnes which landed them their first tour outside of Liverpool, backing singer Johnny Gentle on a tour of Scotland.
www.music.indiana.edu /som/courses/rock/clubs.html   (485 words)

  
 Welcome to the Cavern Club
The Cavern Club located on Mathew Street in Liverpool featured " beat groups" that changed the course of music for all time.
An endless stream of famous groups came out of the Cavern, such as Gerry and the Pacemakers,The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black and many others.
It was the Beatles that paved the way for these and other Cavern and British groups to invade America.
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 Paul McCartney-Live At The Cavern Club
This concert, taped for this disc and also broadcast live on the Internet in 1999, brings back more memories for Paul, as it was held at The Cavern Club, which Paul hadn't played since 1963.
The original Cavern Club is no more but was resurrected in the 80's on nearly the same spot in Liverpool.
The cameras are placed to focus in on the band, and very few shots of the crowd in The Cavern were shown.
www.dvdcorner.net /html/mccavern.html   (559 words)

  
 Liverpool’s Cavern Club Adds Pair of Soundcraft Console
The Cavern Club, located on Liverpool's Mathew Street, has purchased two Soundcraft mixing consoles as part of a major equipment upgrade.
When Cavern’s director Bill Heckle realized it was time to retire the venue's old FOH mixer, he harbored ideas of deploying a large-frame 48-channel MH3 to mix monitors from the FOH position.
Two weeks after playing to 300 people in the Cavern, Anderson will be playing at the Super Bowl in the United States with Paul McCartney and his backing band.
mixonline.com /news/headline/Cavern-Club-Soundcraft-105043   (264 words)

  
 Cavern Pub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opened in August 1994, the Cavern Pub is opposite the Cavern Club and is also owned and operated by Cavern City Tours.
On 16th January 1997 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Cavern Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and the Pacemakers, unveiled the Cavern Wall of Fame which displays the names of 1801 bands and artistes who performed at The Cavern between 1957 and 1973.
The Cavern also the Höfner bass which Paul signed when he played The Cavern on 14th December 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cavern_Pub   (285 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Paul McCartney returns to the Cavern Club
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- The dingy Cavern Club that spawned Beatlemania rocked to the music of Sir Paul McCartney for the first time in almost four decades Tuesday.
The original Cavern Club was torn down in 1973, and rebuilt in the 1980s.
Pat Oakes, who worked at the Cavern Club in its heyday, brought her nine-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte, from London.
www.sptimes.com /News/121599/Worldandnation/Paul_McCartney_return.shtml   (396 words)

  
 Ananova - Cavern Club is Creamed in Monopoly move
The Cavern Club has disappeared from the 2000 version of the Liverpool edition of Monopoly - and been replaced with trendy superclub Cream.
But the decision to dump the birthplace of The Beatles and the 60s Merseybeat sound is not meant as a snub to the world famous venue - it just reflects the fact that corporate sponsorship has a big say in which names make it on to the board.
Bosses at the Cavern say they are pouring their resources into a new £10 million Beatles-themed hotel in the city centre to be called A Hard Day's Night - but they have not ruled out a return to the Monopoloy board in future years.
www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_139127.html   (282 words)

  
 Music: Cincinnati.Com
That was where the name the Cavern came from, which is where the Beatles started in Liverpool.
The club holds about 350 people, with another 150 in the upstair,s where Boitman hopes to keep a more laid-back lounge feel.
The Cavern is actually the fourth club incarnation in the building since Lenhart bought it in 1995.
www.cincinnati.com /freetime/083002_thecave.html   (597 words)

  
 Cavern Club - Clubs National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The Cavern was made famous in the 1960's by the BEATLES, who played here nearly 300 times between March 1961 and August 1963.
Don't be fooled by there tag, of the place were it all began, if you want to know what it's like to be in the place The Beatles played nearly 300 times then, stand on the carpark next to it, that's were the original Cavern was.
Apart from just being famous for the obvious, The Cavern is now a club again, every saturday afternoon, there are always several bands playing there, all unsigned of course, it is quite easy for any band to get a gig there,...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /clubs-national/cavern-club   (209 words)

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