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Location Mathew Street, Liverpool, England
Type Music club
Genre(s) Entertainment/night club
Opened 1957, reopened 1984 and 1999
Closed 1973 and 1989
Owner Alan Sytner, Bob Wooler, Ray McFall; Tommy Smith; Bill Heckle and Dave Jones
The Cavern Club is the cradle of British pop music, the place where the Beatles musical identity was formed.
Today's Cavern is a thriving live music destination and one of Liverpool’s top tourist attractions. The three venues - the Cavern Club, Cavern Live Lounge and the Cavern Pub - showcase not only the incredible legacy of The Beatles, but also new up and coming bands and established artists.
Discover for yourself the evocative spirit of this legendary venue and experience the unique and powerful Cavern sound performed live on stage every afternoon till late in the evening.
The Cavern Club front stage is the main area of the club. Adorning those iconic arches made famous by the Beatles and Merseybeat bands alike, this part of the Club is open 7 days a week from 10am. The daily live music programme begins from 3:30pm weekdays and 2:30pm weekends.
This stage that played home to Sir Paul McCartney’s final performance of the Millennium is located at the back of the Cavern Club. Open regularly for shows, private parties and functions or just a quiet place to sit and take in the Club’s history during week days.
The Cavern’s third venue is the Cavern Pub, located on Mathew Street opposite the Cavern Club. The pub is open daily from 11am with Cavern and rock memorabilia on display inside and the Cavern Wall of Fame outside. There’s regular live music from local bands with free admission at all times.
The Beatles, British musical quartet and a global cynosure for the hopes and dreams of a generation that came of age in the 1960s. The principal members were Paul McCartney (in full Sir James Paul McCartney; b. June 18, 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England), John Lennon (b. October 9, 1940, Liverpool—d. December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.), George Harrison (b. February 25, 1943, Liverpool—d. November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), and Ringo Starr (byname of Richard Starkey; b. July 7, 1940, Liverpool). Other early members included Stuart Sutcliffe (b. June 23, 1940, Edinburgh, Scotland—d. April 10, 1962, Hamburg, West Germany) and Pete Best (b. November 24, 1941, Madras [now Chennai], India).
Formed around the nucleus of Lennon and McCartney, who first performed together in Liverpool in 1957, the group grew out of a shared enthusiasm for American rock and roll. Like most early rock-and-roll figures, Lennon, a guitarist and singer, and McCartney, a bassist and singer, were largely self-taught as musicians. Precocious composers, they gathered around themselves a changing cast of accompanists, adding by the end of 1957 Harrison, a lead guitarist, and then, in 1960 for several formative months, Sutcliffe, a promising young painter who brought into the band a brooding sense of bohemian style. After dabbling in skiffle, a jaunty sort of folk music popular in Britain in the late 1950s, and assuming several different names (the Quarrymen, the Silver Beetles, and, finally, the Beatles), the band added a drummer, Best, and joined a small but booming “beat music” scene, first in Liverpool and then, during several long visits between 1960 and 1962, in Hamburg—another seaport full of sailors thirsty for American rock and roll as a backdrop for their whiskey and womanizing.