Beatles Mapped

“At some point, the album was going to be titled Everest after the brand of cigarettes I used to smoke,” recalls Geoff Emerick. The idea included a cover photo in the Himalayas but by the time the group was to take the photo they decided to call it Abbey Road and take the photo outside [...]

John Lennon met Paul McCartney on July 6, 1957, when Paul went to hear John’s band, The Quarrymen, play at a village festival at St. Peter’s Parish Church.

Brian Epstein was running the record department of his family’s store when he discovered the Beatles on November 9, 1961, in the Cavern, only a short distance away.

Mona Best, Pete’s Mother, turned the basement into the successful Casbah Club, a teenage coffee house and venue for bands.

The Beatles made the Cavern Club famous, playing nearly 300 shows between February 1961 and August 1963 in the cellar club on tiny Mathew Street in downtown Liverpool.