The Cavern Club

Where it all began.....Home of the British Invasion......

The Cavern...Where it all began

The Cavern Club located on Mathew Street in  Liverpool  featured " beat groups" that changed the course of music for all time. The Beatles played at the Cavern about 300 times between March 1961 through August 1963. An endless stream of famous groups came out of the Cavern, such as Gerry and the Pacemakers,The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black  and many others. It was the birthplace of the British Invasion. In the early days Cilla Black was in charge of the  cloakroom. Pete Best was the Beatles drummer , later being replaced by Ringo Starr, who had been playing with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The club is full of history. You can now take a trip back in time and relive the Mersey sound as it  was in the beginning, enjoy!

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NEMS

This was Brian Epstein's Management Firms name.

Here are some of the people and groups that were a part of the NEMS stable as it was called.

Just click on the name to read, see and hear more.

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Gerry and the Pacemakers

Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas

The Fourmost

Cilla Black

The Beatles

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It was the Beatles that paved the way for these and other Cavern and British groups to invade America.

What is the British Invasion?

The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9 1964  before the largest viewing audience in history. In the weeks that followed the more British groups followed such as............................

The Dave Clark Five

The Searchers

Herman and the Hermits

The Animals

The Rolling Stones

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This is a list of the groups rankings in Liverpool

Mersey Beat Poll Winners

This site will be updated each month. So this months featured artists are...........

The Kinks

The Zombies

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