Cavern Days

 

Back from Hamburg

 

Have you all seen these Cavern photos?  I did not locate these photos.  I have been seeing them a lot on Facebook and I just took them from there. 

What the fans are saying is that the shots had to have been taken after The Beatles returned to Liverpool from Hamburg in 1961.  Things to notice is that they are wearing regular shirts but leather pants.   Their hair is starting to grow out, and George is playing his Futurama guitar.  

Two bands rock the night in New Brighton

 November 19, 1961

So cool

 Ringo in November 1961 - 60 years later and Ringo is still cool. 

60 years ago Paris trip

 

60 years ago it was John Lennon's 21st birthday.  John and Paul hitchhiked into Paris.   

The Fabulous Beatles

 August 19, 1961

Just a little jazz band

 August 1, 1961 

New red suits for the Hurricanes

 

July 1961 

Classic Cavern Club

 July 26, 1961 

Outside of the Cavern Club

 

July 19, 1961

Flaming Red and Shocking Turquoise

 

A day at the beach

 

April 1961 

George in Hamburg

Photos by Jürgen Vollmer

 April 1961

Rocking and Rolling at the Casbah Coffee Club

 

February 1961 Casbah Cofee Club in Liverpool 

Hurricane Fans

 

Ringo & Pete in the same photo

 

You have to look carefully and you will see Pete at the drums and Ringo Starr sitting on the side of the stage, watching The Beatles perform.    This is a really cool photo.  

The Beatles with Davy Jones

Photo for sale on Ebay by Tracks

 

Tracks is selling interestingly enough part of a "new" photo of The Beatles performing at the Cavern Club.  Somehow I can just picture a girl that loved George tearing George out of the photograph to tape onto her wall or scrapbook. 

The photo was taken on December 8, 1961, and shows the Beatles backing a soul singer named Davy Jones.  Davy performed at the lunchtime session at the Cavern Club the day and it was noted that he had brought cocaine with him and it is quite possible that members of The Beatles tried some backstage.     The two songs we know that they performed for sure were Amapola (a song that Jones had a released as a single) as well as Mighty Man (which was the B-side).   The Beatles added Mighty Man to their own set.  

In regards to that new photo, it is interesting that Paul is no sitting in the chair, but his Hofner is in his place.   Now there is another photograph that I have posted on this site before from this date that has Paul playing his bass standing up near George.   Where is Paul?   Is he in the part of the photograph that was ripped off?   I'd say that we'd never know -- but someday we will.   The full photo is out there somewhere because it was sold in an auction.  Unfortunately, we can't see the full photograph in the auction listing either.   One of these days it will surface.   

The Beatles at the Cavern