A Liverpool house famous for hosting some of The Beatles’ first gigs in the basement has been given a new lease of life, being listed on Airbnb. Mona Best, the party-loving mother of the band’s original drummer Pete Best, opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the English city’s West Derby suburb in 1959, just before … Read more
A Chinese girl, asked if she too was going to scream, replied: “Of course.” And scream they did. As the four young Liverpudlians stepped from the aircraft, an enormous cry went up from the airport’s observation platform as the teenagers strained over tops of heads in front of them to see their singing idols. Then … Read more
John was anxious, though, like all the Beatles, about what to expect. Would the American media be tough on them? Or misconstrue something they said in an interview? Would demonstrators, because of all the press on hand, use the opportunity to stage some kind of protest? As the plane taxied in, John and I saw … Read more
