Book contents
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Chapter 6 The Love There That’s Sleeping: Guitars of the Early Beatles
- Chapter 7 The Beatles in Performance: From Dance Hall Days to Stadium Tours
- Chapter 8 Beatlemania
- Chapter 9 The End of the Road: The Beatles’ Decision to Stop Touring
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 7 - The Beatles in Performance: From Dance Hall Days to Stadium Tours
from Part II - The Beatles in Performance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Chapter 6 The Love There That’s Sleeping: Guitars of the Early Beatles
- Chapter 7 The Beatles in Performance: From Dance Hall Days to Stadium Tours
- Chapter 8 Beatlemania
- Chapter 9 The End of the Road: The Beatles’ Decision to Stop Touring
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Liverpool, England: one afternoon in November 1961, a well-dressed man arrived at the entrance of a wildly popular club. He carefully descended the narrow, precipitous steps to a dark, dank, smoke-filled cellar reeking of boiled hot dogs, rotting fruit, and cleaning fluid. Pushing his way across a crowded floor filled with the younger set on a lunch break, the man observed the band playing on a tiny illuminated stage. Everyone at the Cavern Club that afternoon was there for one thing: gritty, sweat-infused rock ’n’ roll. The four young men delivering it were what had attracted that well-dressed man, Brian Epstein. He wanted to see for himself what was causing such a shaking underneath the city’s Mathew Street.
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- The Beatles in Context , pp. 63 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020