The Beatles – Ingliando

John Lennon Meets Paul McCartney

6th July 1957

On this day, two Liverpool teenagers, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, met for the first time in a church auditorium. The occasion was the annual Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, a parade and outdoor fair at which John and his Quarrymen Skiffle Group had been invited to play. Paul was in the crowd and was greatly impressed by John’s stage charisma. After the show, a mutual friend made the introduction in the nearby church auditorium. When Paul pulled out his guitar and started playing some Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Little Richard numbers, it was John’s turn to be impressed and two weeks later he invited Paul to join the Quarrymen. It was the start of one of the most fruitful musical partnerships in history.

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Beatles Impromptu Rooftop Performance

30th January 1969

On this day the final live performance of the iconic band The Beatles took place on the rooftop of the Apple headquarters in Savile Row, London. The impromptu concert lasted for just 42 minutes before the Metropolitan Police forced the band to stop playing. After the concert, George Harrison is reported to have said: “We went on the roof in order to resolve the live concert idea, because it was much simpler than going anywhere else; also nobody had ever done that, so it would be interesting to see what happened when we started playing up there. It was a nice little social study.” Footage from the performance was later used in the 1970 documentary film ‘Let It Be’.

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Inauguration of the Cavern Club in Liverpool

16th January 1957

On this day in a warehouse basement in Mathew Street, Liverpool, The Cavern Club opened its doors to the general public for the first time. Initially intended as a jazz club, it soon became associated with Merseybeat and today is famous as the venue where The Beatles made their rise to stardom, performing there 292 times between their return from Hamburg in 1961 and their signing to EMI’s Parlophone label in 1963. The original club closed on 28 May 1973 after British Rail made a compulsory purchase of the warehouse in order to build a ventilation shaft for the new Merseyrail underground railway. The building, however, was never carried out and the area eventually became a car park.

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The Shooting of John Lennon

8th December 1980

On this day John Lennon, musician, political activist, and one of the founding members of the pop group The Beatles, was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, outside his Manhattan flat in New York. Hit twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range, Lennon was rushed in a police car to the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m. The assassination took place just three weeks after the release of the album “Double Fantasy”, Lennon’s comeback to music after spending five years at home bringing up his son, Sean. John Lennon’s death triggered an outpouring of grief on an unprecedented scale throughout the world.