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| Mathew
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"The
only drawback with the Cavern is the tide came in occasionally.
You’d go to the gents and the water would have seeped through the
sandstone floor. You’d have to paddle to get to the toilet.
I didn’t
know the Beatles, they were always a bit of a joke on the Liverpool
scene. They weren’t awfully good at that time to be perfectly honest.
Then Allan Williams took them over to Hamburg and they came back
with their leather coats."
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"I
remember sagging school, changing in the toilets, then jumping over
the fence, going to the Cavern and coming back."
"It
was a dirty hole in the ground when you look back, but at the time
it was so exciting and so grown up. You used to sneak in and you’d
hide your face, because if they saw your face, they knew you weren’t
old enough."
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"The
Beatles were quite well known locally, although they hadn’t become
famous."
"They
opened the strip club up Parliament Street, that was one of the
Beatles’ first gigs. All looking terribly embarrassed because they
were only young boys then."
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"They
used to come to the club in Liverpool 8 in Windsor Street. We used
to have a Friday night where all the groups would come down and
play. Even the Beatles were there, they used to come in the afternoons.
I can picture now Bob Wooler trying to get them out of the door."
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