I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern (2011)

★ 5.0 0h 47m IMDb

I Was There…When the Beatles Played The Cavern tells the story of the underground venue which has become synonymous with one of the world’s greatest bands – The Beatles. The programme includes rare archive footage of the Cavern Club in the sixties, including film of The Beatles performing ‘Some Other Guy’ at the club. On 9 February 1961, having recently returned to Liverpool from performing in Hamburg, The Beatles played at The Cavern for the first of nearly 300 appearances at the club. By the time they played their last gig there, Beatlemania had swept Britain and the band was conquering the world.

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Pete Best
Pete Best as Self Age 84 · Madras, Madras State, British India Pete Best is a british musician, known as first drummer of The Beatles..
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello as Self (archive footage) Age 71 · Paddington, London, England, UK Referencing prodigies of rock lyricism may not bring Elvis Costello to mind for some, but he does deserve consideration. Through the course of over four decades, the former computer programmer has mai...
Ken Dodd
Ken Dodd as Self Died 2018 · Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd was born on 8 November 1927 in a former farmhouse in Knotty Ash, a suburb of Liverpool, to Arthur Dodd and Sarah (née Gray); where his parents lived. He had an older brother, W...
Brian Epstein
Brian Epstein as Self (archive footage) Died 1967 · Liverpool, England, UK Brian Samuel Epstein was a British music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1962 until his death in 1967. Epstein was born into a family of successful retailers in Liverpool, who put him in cha...
Len Garry
Len Garry as Self Died 2026 · Liverpool - England - UK Len Garry played tea chest bass in the Quarry Men in 1957 and 1958, when they were still doing some skiffle tunes. They did rock'n'roll too, but tea chest bass was part of the instrumentation for many...
George Harrison
George Harrison as Self (archive footage) Died 2001 · Liverpool, England, UK George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. ...

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