I love hearing all this history of some of our greatest bands. My years listening to the Beatles and the bands at this time were the best. So sad time goes by so fast and we only have our memories of the wonderful times when we were young
A lot of Beatles fans who visit Liverpool are shocked at what a beautiful city it is. Sometimes, authors and journalists tried to describe some of the Beatles homes as in the slums! They weren't.
Rory should have been given more then afew 45s n a backcatolog live LP there was no underground in the early 60s in the uk nowdays he would be on a indi deal and in that chart but back then. The pop biz was a lot smaller and not as rich shameful 😢
Correction (be cool) - be yourself, that's what sane people want. Be yourself, the whole package. When I met George I knew about 30 of his songs, words and guitar. I was speechless and that was me. So was he. I want to tell you, my head is filled with things to say...
Great!! Young lads had it rough growing up in post-war Britain but weren't they sharp! I'm impressed by how hard they worked to chase their dreams. And wasn't Rory cool! Couldn't keep the ladies off him I imagine.
There was also The Pillar Club at Lowlands in West Derby which opened about the same time which was a Jazz Club. I think it was this which persuaded Mona Best to oepn the Casbah Club.
Yes, I am going to cover the Pillar Club too as it opened around the same time. And yes, Mona certainly visited the Pillar Club where she spotted the Les Stewart Quartet (with George on guitar) playing.
I was a "child prodigy portrait artist" and my mom kept insisting we were poor. She worked her butt off raising her brothers and sisters as best she could. Then her dashing alcoholic husband took off in 1955. He had been a bombardier on a B-29 and he knew that thousands of folk were dying below the most expensive and advanced bomber in the world. He started drinking during the war (WWII) and later he'd travel across the country in a 1959 Lincoln Continental charming women with his wit and skills. So my skills were a big secret because I reminded my mom of "him". In 1967 Sgt. Pepper's was released and I wore it out and that year I sculpted John Lennon's head and made a latex mold of it. That mold is probably in my mom's garage space in Pacific Palisades. With a latex mold you fill it with plaster of paris and tape it together and there's your John Lennon statue. Then you paint it like his Rolls.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool In 1967 Sgt. Pepper's put the Beatles on the cover of Time Magazine with sculptures of each Beatle by Gerald Scarfe and I copied Gerald's caricature of John. I also did three paintings of the Beatles from 67 - 69. I love this channel, feels like history.
Brilliant content... Both authors are experts on the Beatles and Rory... No detail is too small for these gents, once again great insights and stories, looking for more! Cheers to both of you.
Great story about the Morgue club. I have read Anthony's book about Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and can honestly say it's one of the best books about Merseybeat.
@@allenf.5907 yes it's a great book Allen, Anthony tells the real Rory & the Hurricanes story, a legendary band and one of, if not the first Rock n roll band in Liverpool.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool On my list now. The BIG question I would have would be how did the Beatles get Ringo away from Rory and the Hurricanes? It was the final chess piece for all involved. And the rest, as they say, is history!
@@allenf.5907 Lets see. Ringo goes...hmmm...Beatles....Rory Storm and the Hurricanes....Beatles....Rory.....Beatles.....Rory...hmmmm......I go with the Beatles. There, I done it. No regrets.
Possible headline: Unknown persons stole a stair step at 54 Broad Green Road in Liverpool during the night. As it turned out, it was a historical step. The perpetrators were caught by the police. They said they sold the step to a Japanese collector.😀
Don't replace the front porch step, but at least CLEAN IT!!! All that grime on that concrete riser and tread can and should be cleaned and would come off easily with a little elbow grease. Just keep that whole area extra spiffy because it's holy ground.
That's one of the reasons I wrote my first book, Liddypool, and why we started this channel to bring Liverpool to those fans who can't get here. Never say never Gary. David
The horse in the grand national that tried to jump the non existing fence was in 1956. The horse was Devon Loch. I remember because its the year I was born
Pete best's version is the quarrymen first played in the casbah and has never mentioned this place in any of the dozens of interviews he's given about the beatles. The casbah which was turned into a museum is full of photos and interesting stories but nothing about this is mentioned.. Best's heavy relentless promotion of the casbah club and how the cavern club no longer exists and is nothing more than a facsimile of the old club on the other side of the street. And the casbah is where it all began is now the official story
That's because it did all begin in the Casbah as a historical fact. Quarrymen opened it in August 1959, and the Beatles made it their base from the end of 1960. Mona Best then got the Beatles into the Cavern in Feb 61. So it is more the birthplace of the Beatles than the Cavern. Also the original Cavern was torn down in 73, whereas the Casbah is original. The new Cavern does have a feel and look of the original and is a great place to visit. But it isn't original. The Casbah was never written into the original biographies because the Fab Four didn't want to talk about it, so they could avoid talking about Best. But the facts back up what Best has been saying, even if many books didn't give it much credit.
It's called oral history. All the old folks, everywhere, have stories which will amaze. They just have to be coaxed to tell them. And someone needs to press the record button. It's a shame if they just get flushed down the memory hole.
Great stuff. George apparently, according to the Beatles Biography by Hunter Davies, said that he had the hots for Rory Storm's sister Iris. Another hang out was Alan William's club, The Jacaranda. In the early days, it was apparently very 'bohemian', ands the Beatles were right into that scene.
Iris was George's first girlfriend! She also later dated Paul, too! The Jacaranda was hugely important to Beatles history. It was there they met Allan Williams, who became their first manager, got them their first drummer, and got them to Hamburg, too. A great place.
They weren't down on it, but rock n roll was an American phenomenon that was an underground movement, because British radio didn't play rock n roll. You had to tune in to Radio Luxembourg to hear it. It was viewed with suspicion by a lot of people!
Was Ringo receptive to talk about these days? I mean he was up front and center. I think it's also about time Pete and Ringo bury the hatchet!! or shall I say drum stick!;-) and do a collective interview or Q and A for a large audience?? Oh well
Ringo hasn't spoken much on the subject after they became famous and sticks to the script. He did once make allegations against Pete which ended up in court with Pete winning the case! That probably sealed that one.
Lol, it was Mrs Brown (my Aunty), not Mr Brown. Mr Brown was in India with the Royal Engineers at the time. Let me know if you want stories of Iris and Shane Fenton.
My pleasure, i knew all the beatles during the 1950s and attended the same Speke school as Paul at the same time, and i could have been George's brother-in-law but my sister left Peter Harrison, take care. @@BrightmoonLiverpool
I'm up to my eyebrows in liverpudllian accents so one more - this old guy is fantastic. Now I'm one of the old guys. The year was 1977. George Harrison flew to Maui to look for a house to buy. Yes, this is about when George Harrison and I met, it's a bloody good story and I can't type anymore...
@@BrightmoonLiverpool - I was washing dishes at an upscale restaurant called Longhi's - Lahaina, Maui. I was on a lunch break in the early afternoon, eating a baked potato. My boss was Bob Longhi, owner of the restaurant. "Mango" - I heard Bob say, "I'd like you to meet George Harrison". Mango was my nickname (or Mango Man) because I virtually lived on mangoes. I looked up from my plate and there stood George, smiling, as I spewed potatoes in a perfect spit-take. We said nothing and George and Bob moved on. 1977. The next day my boss and his friends drove George to Hana (other side of the island) and they went hiking and George slipped and cracked his skull and was flown to Honolulu for surgery. I knew I should have been his tour guide, I would have kept him safe AND found new mushrooms in the old cowpies for George and me and he wouldn't have cracked his bloody skull. The moral? Be cool and express yourself.
I love hearing all this history of some of our greatest bands. My years listening to the Beatles and the bands at this time were the best. So sad time goes by so fast and we only have our memories of the wonderful times when we were young
What great stories etched into the homes, back streets and alleys of post war Liverpool.
+Arnold Zilban There are so many stories to share still. All helps understanding the city that the Beatles came from.
I've met two Beatles. I can die now.
Fantastic story, from little acorns, mighty oaks grow.
Love it ! Always something to learn about Liverpool! Thank you 😊
Our pleasure Debs x
All of the homes look much nicer than I had imagined.
A lot of Beatles fans who visit Liverpool are shocked at what a beautiful city it is. Sometimes, authors and journalists tried to describe some of the Beatles homes as in the slums! They weren't.
Rory should have been given more then afew 45s n a backcatolog live LP there was no underground in the early 60s in the uk nowdays he would be on a indi deal and in that chart but back then. The pop biz was a lot smaller and not as rich shameful 😢
I agree, such a shame he didn't get the recognition he deserved.
I am addicted to your channel Hello from Northern Ireland
Thank you. Greetings from Liverpool and welcome to our channel.
How was the casbah any different it was in the Mrs Bests cellar mother of Pete Best... Was it different because it had a license?
Different to what? It didn't have an alcohol license. Normally only pubs got a license.
Correction (be cool) - be yourself, that's what sane people want. Be yourself, the whole package. When I met George I knew about 30 of his songs, words and guitar. I was speechless and that was me. So was he. I want to tell you, my head is filled with things to say...
Amazing Dennis - what an honour to have met George
@@BrightmoonLiverpool ...and Ringo and Barbara Bach Starkey (1990).
Great video that mate! Excellent knowledge!
Thank you
Great!! Young lads had it rough growing up in post-war Britain but weren't they sharp! I'm impressed by how hard they worked to chase their dreams. And wasn't Rory cool! Couldn't keep the ladies off him I imagine.
Rory was the greatest showman of Liverpool! Sharp dresser and mover too! I'm jealous!!
There was also The Pillar Club at Lowlands in West Derby which opened about the same time which was a Jazz Club. I think it was this which persuaded Mona Best to oepn the Casbah Club.
Yes, I am going to cover the Pillar Club too as it opened around the same time. And yes, Mona certainly visited the Pillar Club where she spotted the Les Stewart Quartet (with George on guitar) playing.
8:57 that's the second bus going by pretty fast-are those people on a music sightseeing tour? on their way to a Beatle site? They should SLOW DOWN!
No, just a normal bus.
They won't even know what a historic place they are passing, sadly.
Just when you don't need a bus two come at once 😂 didn't know about this other club at end of my road (pre casbah) amazing stuff as always David! 👍
My pleasure Michael.
I was a "child prodigy portrait artist" and my mom kept insisting we were poor. She worked her butt off raising her brothers and sisters as best she could. Then her dashing alcoholic husband took off in 1955. He had been a bombardier on a B-29 and he knew that thousands of folk were dying below the most expensive and advanced bomber in the world. He started drinking during the war (WWII) and later he'd travel across the country in a 1959 Lincoln Continental charming women with his wit and skills. So my skills were a big secret because I reminded my mom of "him". In 1967 Sgt. Pepper's was released and I wore it out and that year I sculpted John Lennon's head and made a latex mold of it. That mold is probably in my mom's garage space in Pacific Palisades. With a latex mold you fill it with plaster of paris and tape it together and there's your John Lennon statue. Then you paint it like his Rolls.
That would be incredible to have that statue!
@@BrightmoonLiverpool In 1967 Sgt. Pepper's put the Beatles on the cover of Time Magazine with sculptures of each Beatle by Gerald Scarfe and I copied Gerald's caricature of John. I also did three paintings of the Beatles from 67 - 69. I love this channel, feels like history.
Thank you
Brilliant content... Both authors are experts on the Beatles and Rory... No detail is too small for these gents, once again great insights and stories, looking for more! Cheers to both of you.
Thanks Paul - Ant is a real expert on Rory and his book is superb too. We had good fun making this too! David
Great story about the Morgue club. I have read Anthony's book about Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and can honestly say it's one of the best books about Merseybeat.
I need to read this ^^^^
@@allenf.5907 yes it's a great book Allen, Anthony tells the real Rory & the Hurricanes story, a legendary band and one of, if not the first Rock n roll band in Liverpool.
It is a great book, isn't it?
@@BrightmoonLiverpool On my list now.
The BIG question I would have would be how did the Beatles get Ringo away from Rory and the Hurricanes? It was the final chess piece for all involved. And the rest, as they say, is history!
@@allenf.5907 Lets see. Ringo goes...hmmm...Beatles....Rory Storm and the Hurricanes....Beatles....Rory.....Beatles.....Rory...hmmmm......I go with the Beatles. There, I done it. No regrets.
And just think no Lonnie Donnegan/Skiffle no Rory or The Beatles
George said: " No Leadbelly, no Lonnie Donegan. No Lonnie Donegan, no Beatles." And no other beat groups either!
Thank you and a great video
Very welcome
I'll learn ya how to play the guitar.. You mean I'll teach you.. Just because a person is a scouser does not mean he it she have to be illiterate lol
You mean "he or she"? 😂 Back at yer, buddy
Possible headline: Unknown persons stole a stair step at 54 Broad Green Road in Liverpool during the night. As it turned out, it was a historical step. The perpetrators were caught by the police. They said they sold the step to a Japanese collector.😀
Stranger things have happened!!
Don't replace the front porch step, but at least CLEAN IT!!! All that grime on that concrete riser and tread can and should be cleaned and would come off easily with a little elbow grease. Just keep that whole area extra spiffy because it's holy ground.
I wish I could go to Liverpool and tour the place where the Beatles lived. I don't think I will ever get the chance, but an old man can dream.
That's one of the reasons I wrote my first book, Liddypool, and why we started this channel to bring Liverpool to those fans who can't get here. Never say never Gary. David
@@BrightmoonLiverpool thanks man, gonna get the book and keep watching your channel.
@Gary Trew Thanks Gary.
👍
Very good memories
What a great, and historical video. Thank you for posting.
"The smooching going on" 😆
Great story isn't it?
There is always a Mr Brown! 😔
Everybody knows one! Killjoys!!
The horse in the grand national that tried to jump the non existing fence was in 1956. The horse was Devon Loch. I remember because its the year I was born
+Joe Caldwell That's the one! Thanks Joe
hahahaha fucking great man!!! love that guy, what's his name again???? ANTHONY HOGAN, got it, gonna get the book
The book is fantastic, you can get it from our store link in the description. You will love it.
Pete best's version is the quarrymen first played in the casbah and has never mentioned this place in any of the dozens of interviews he's given about the beatles.
The casbah which was turned into a museum is full of photos and interesting stories but nothing about this is mentioned..
Best's heavy relentless promotion of the casbah club and how the cavern club no longer exists and is nothing more than a facsimile of the old club on the other side of the street.
And the casbah is where it all began is now the official story
That's because it did all begin in the Casbah as a historical fact. Quarrymen opened it in August 1959, and the Beatles made it their base from the end of 1960. Mona Best then got the Beatles into the Cavern in Feb 61. So it is more the birthplace of the Beatles than the Cavern.
Also the original Cavern was torn down in 73, whereas the Casbah is original. The new Cavern does have a feel and look of the original and is a great place to visit. But it isn't original.
The Casbah was never written into the original biographies because the Fab Four didn't want to talk about it, so they could avoid talking about Best. But the facts back up what Best has been saying, even if many books didn't give it much credit.
It's called oral history. All the old folks, everywhere, have stories which will amaze. They just have to be coaxed to tell them. And someone needs to press the record button. It's a shame if they just get flushed down the memory hole.
Exactly. That's what I have spent the last 20 years doing and will keep doing because it would be a shame to lose them. They all matter don't they?
Great stuff. George apparently, according to the Beatles Biography by Hunter Davies, said that he had the hots for Rory Storm's sister Iris. Another hang out was Alan William's club, The Jacaranda. In the early days, it was apparently very 'bohemian', ands the Beatles were right into that scene.
Iris was George's first girlfriend! She also later dated Paul, too!
The Jacaranda was hugely important to Beatles history. It was there they met Allan Williams, who became their first manager, got them their first drummer, and got them to Hamburg, too. A great place.
It sounds like everybody in Liverpool in 1957-59 was down on rock and roll.
They weren't down on it, but rock n roll was an American phenomenon that was an underground movement, because British radio didn't play rock n roll. You had to tune in to Radio Luxembourg to hear it. It was viewed with suspicion by a lot of people!
Very interesting accounts! Maybe some day somebody will make a movie about Rory :)
A few have tried but hasn't come off yet. He really does deserve one! An absolute legend.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool th-cam.com/video/rYAL-eBfBno/w-d-xo.html
@@BrightmoonLiverpool how about that son that he never knew that grew up in Canada, that would add some dirt to the pile
@@reedpearn323 I try and avoid the dirt when I can!
So... Liverpool has blue buses I didn't know that
Since deregulation under Thatcher. Different companies.
Excellent, cheers mate 👍
Fantastic fair to you !☘️
I really like the story, the real one, the very beginnings. Thank you!
+Federico Traeger Our pleasure
Was Ringo receptive to talk about these days? I mean he was up front and center. I think it's also about time Pete and Ringo bury the hatchet!! or shall I say drum stick!;-) and do a collective interview or Q and A for a large audience?? Oh well
Ringo hasn't spoken much on the subject after they became famous and sticks to the script. He did once make allegations against Pete which ended up in court with Pete winning the case! That probably sealed that one.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool all right wasn't aware of that one. thanks!
Incredible story! Great video:)
Thanks so much!
I love the skiffle sounds.
You can't even Understand what this Narrator is saying
Have you tried the subtitles?
Lol, it was Mrs Brown (my Aunty), not Mr Brown. Mr Brown was in India with the Royal Engineers at the time. Let me know if you want stories of Iris and Shane Fenton.
Very interesting!
The club was the Morgue and my sister visited a few times, and George was there.
Thanks John. David
My pleasure, i knew all the beatles during the 1950s and attended the same Speke school as Paul at the same time, and i could have been George's brother-in-law but my sister left Peter Harrison, take care.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool
I'm up to my eyebrows in liverpudllian accents so one more - this old guy is fantastic. Now I'm one of the old guys. The year was 1977. George Harrison flew to Maui to look for a house to buy. Yes, this is about when George Harrison and I met, it's a bloody good story and I can't type anymore...
What a story you have to tell too! Meeting George - wow!
@@BrightmoonLiverpool - I was washing dishes at an upscale restaurant called Longhi's - Lahaina, Maui. I was on a lunch break in the early afternoon, eating a baked potato. My boss was Bob Longhi, owner of the restaurant. "Mango" - I heard Bob say, "I'd like you to meet George Harrison". Mango was my nickname (or Mango Man) because I virtually lived on mangoes. I looked up from my plate and there stood George, smiling, as I spewed potatoes in a perfect spit-take. We said nothing and George and Bob moved on. 1977. The next day my boss and his friends drove George to Hana (other side of the island) and they went hiking and George slipped and cracked his skull and was flown to Honolulu for surgery. I knew I should have been his tour guide, I would have kept him safe AND found new mushrooms in the old cowpies for George and me and he wouldn't have cracked his bloody skull. The moral? Be cool and express yourself.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool - I met Ringo and Barbara in 1990. I'm not allowed to tell the story without their permission.
Fantastic!
Does the house have a blue plaque?
No, sadly. The only house with a blue plaque is John's.
Mr Brown , like from Paddington Bear? HAHA.. Just kidding.
+Liza Anual Ha! a Paddington fan 😁
Fantastic video!!
Thank you
I met one Beatle and saw another in concert twice ...swoon
A fabulous story enthralled throughout will deffo be getting Anthony's book well done beatle bro's 👏👏👏👍👍👍😎🎸
+Beeetle Boy It is a great read, Ant has done a fabulous job with it.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool 👍
Fantastic story❤️
It is a great story to tell and shouldn't be forgotten.