Loading ...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.
The Beatles were discovered by Brian Epstein on November 9th, 1961. The Cavern closed in 1973 and was demolished in a particularly brilliant feat of civic planning. A reconstructed Cavern Club opened a decade later, built to the specifications of the original and occupying part of the original site (the remainder is lost forever beneath the neighboring parking lot). It is now a major tourist attraction and still a venue for local bands.
The doorway of the original Cavern Club, circa 1963
