Liverpool Beatle Week 01-08-28

We were lucky to get Liverpool's best Walk Tour guide - EDDIE PORTER!		64 Mount Pleasant was the place of a Registrer's Office. Here on Thursday 23 August 1963 JOHN married CYNTHIA. BRIAN EPSTEIN was best man. PAUL and GEORGE also attended. 25 years earlier, on 3 December 1938, John's mother JULIA had married FREDDIE LENNON. The following day Freddie sailed off for the West Indies. Julia saw little of him during their brief and stormy marriage and by the time John was 18 months old, he left them both for good.
	Eddie outside 64 Mount Pleasant

	4 Rodney Street was once a nursing home and the birthplace, on 19 September 1934, of BRIAN EPSTEIN, The Beatles' manager.
4 Rodney Street

	MATERNITY HOSPITAL , Oxford Street is the birthplace of Liverpool's most famous son - JOHN WINSTON LENNON. He was born here at 6.30 pm on Wednesday 9th October 1940.
Maternity Hospital

	FORMER ROYAL LIVERPOOL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, Myrtle Street. (Now demolished and replaced by Liverpool Community College's Arts Centre.) RINGO suffered two long illnesses as a child. 6 years old he spent many weeks here suffering from peritonitis, and at the age of 12 he contracted tuberculosis which necessitated almost 2 years' convalescence.
Former Children's Hospital

	36 Falkner Street was the place of JOHN's and CYNTHIA's honeymoon flat. The ground floor apartment belonged to BRIAN EPSTEIN, who let them use it during the first few months of their marriage. Also here John wrote 'Do You Want To Know A Secret', later a No.1 hit for BILLY J. KRAMER with his DAKOTAS.
36 Falkner Street

Hope Street was the address of LIVERPOOL COLLEGE OF ART. It was JOHN LENNON's school 1957-1960. John was not a succesful student. But this was the place where he met his best friend, the talented artist STU SUTCLIFFE - later a member of The Beatles. Here he also met his future wife CYNTHIA POWELL.

	3 Gambier Terrace. Much against his AUNT MIMI's advice JOHN left the conforts of 'Mendips' to share a flat here in 1960 with STU SUTCLIFFE and ROD MURRAY, another student from Art College. Also a good place to spend time with CYNTHIA. Many were the nights she spent here, her mother believing she was staying over with a girlfriend.
3 Gambier Terrace

	THE PILGRIM was one of JOHN's favourite pubs, situated very near the Art College and in the corner of Pilgrim Street and Mount Street.
The Pilgrim

23 Slater Street was the place of the JACARANDA COFFEE BAR owned by The Beatles' manager then - ALLAN WILLIAMS. The Beatles played here several times in 1960.

	NEPTUNE THEATRE, Hannover Street. In August 1997, on the 30th anniversary of BRIAN EPSTEIN's death, Liverpool City Council dedicated this theatre to his memory.
Neptune Theatre

BLUECOAT CHAMBERS, School Lane is the oldest building in the city center, dating back to 1717. Long a centre of arts, YOKO ONO appeared here on 26 September 1967 in a "happening". In September 1990 the Bluecoat staged an exhibition of works by STUART SUTCLIFFE.

MARKS & SPENCER, Church Street. Totally crazy to take a photo of a Marks & Spencer store off course. So my friends had to pose so the people in the street didn't understand. As YOU all know(?) this used to be the working place for JULIA, JOHN's mother.

12-13 Whitechapel was the place of NEMS (now Ann Summers), a record store owned by the Epstein family and managed by BRIAN EPSTEIN. It was here that, on 28 October 1961, BRIAN first heard about The Beatles when a youth called RAYMOND JONES asked for the record 'My Bonnie' with The Beatles, released in Germany only. He eventually tracked down the record and curiosity lead him, on 9 November 1961, to the CAVERN CLUB in nearby Mathew Street, where The Beatles were performing a lunchtime session. By December 1961 he had become their manager. The rest is history.

ALLAN WILLIAMS was The Beatles' first manager and the man who first took the group to Hamburg in 1960.

BEAT THE MEETLES from Denmark played the later material by The Beatles with great succes.

1964, THE TRIBUTE from Ohio, USA are one of the world's most famous Beatle bands. And tonight they were our guests! They concentrate on the music of The Beatles' earlier career. So lots of solid music from the first four Beatle albums tonight. The audience went wild!!!

TUNEL DO TEMPO from Brazil turned up with three new members. The three new young faces brought a radical change and a new dynamism to the band. We just blew off when they played 'Twist And Shout'!!!

VERY HOT in The Cavern!! +50 Degrees Celsius? But Gerda and Ulla are enjoying themselves anyway. I'm just a little worried about the young man with the thick jacket in the background. I he still alive today?

THE FLYING POSTMEN is from Moldava. We had heard so much about this band before, but always missed them. So wonderful to hear them at last! A fantastic band! They played with SO much joy and beat! And their sound was really their own, not only trying to copy the music of the 60's, but also putting in something of their own with great success. Thank U!!

BELADIES from Buenos Aires are one the very few Beatles girls bands in the world. So nice then to have them here in Liverpool! Because the girls could play really good! Solid guitars, bass and drums. Lots of Rock'n'Roll music tonight!!

	Thank U all Tribute Bands for a wonderful week! Also thank you all wonderful people from all around the word, that we have met during Beatle Week.
Ulla and me outside The Cavern

All photos and text by Bengt Wärmlind, Sweden
(Please give me credits if you use any of the photos!)

THANKS to Bill Heckle, Dave Jones, and all other at Cavern City Tours, The Fab Faux, Frank Agnello, Rich Pagano, Will Lee, Jimmy Vivino, Jack Petruzzelli, Kent Adeborn, Henrik Jutbring, Lenny Pane, Joanne Rishton & Nina Douglas at The Word Is Love, and of course all you wonderful friends, who attended these journeys of a lifetime! Not the least my wife Ulla, not a Beatle-fan, but who shared these experiences with me - and enjoyed it!