A Day in the Life
The Beatles at the Cavern Club - December 23, 1961
There's something oddly fitting about spending the last Saturday before Christmas in a dank cellar on Mathew Street, watching four leather-clad lads from the suburbs thrash out rock and roll until the small hours. The Cavern Club, that former air raid shelter turned jazz venue turned rock and roll sanctuary, had already become somewhat of a second home to The Beatles by December 1961. The all-night session on the 23rd was their 136th appearance at the club that year alone, and bloody hell, didn't they know every brick of those arched ceilings by heart?
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