The Beatles Last Show Live at The Cavern Club - August 3rd, 1963

Billy Kinsley from The Merseybeats talks about the last time The Beatles played the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool.

The show was in doubt when a power cut took all the lights out minutes before the band was due to play. Paul McCartney responded by taking to the piano and performing 'When I'm 64', several years before it was heard on the legendary Sgt. Pepper album.

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[BrightmoonLiverpool]

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[joe]

Imagine you're in a club, you hear the band play a new song you'd never heard before, then you go home that night and think nothing of it again. Then that band becomes the biggest band in the but then, you run out to the record store the day Sgt Pepper is released by said greatest band in the world, and on that record which is destined to become the greatest album ever, is that song you heard them sing years ago when they were just a club band in a dingy, dark nightclub.

MIND BLOWN

[michaelthomas]

The Beatles were, are, and forever will be the "Topper most of the popper most."

[rubypepper]

I knew Paul wrote 'When I'm 64' when he was a teenager, but I didn't know he played it on the piano at The Cavern. I wonder if the people who were at the gig, remembered it when 'Sgt Pepper' came out.

[KRW]

that was my 14th birthday (it was also Jimmie Nichol's 24th birthday)

[EVERYBODYSGOTSOMETHI]

Then, Paul was 21.
He wrote "When I'm 64" when he was 16.
I appreciate that he listened to, took an interest in, and played an extremely wide range of music genres from an early age, including vaudeville as well as rock and roll. I'd like to say thanks, especially to his father.

[tunanorth]

"IF" there really are are time travelers, you should begin looking for them by scanning the crowd scenes in film from their Cavern Club dates.

[philblane]

The real reason the world is so messed up is because there are no more Beatles.

[nezbit]

As I understand it Paul wrote when I’m 64 as a child, which makes it even more lovable 👌

[paulnewsom]

No Monitors Still Managed To Get There Music Accross As Keith Richard's Said It Best The Beatles Kicked The Doors Open Set A Standard That Still Remains Today All In A 7 Year Period

[chrislofotos]

I saw them in the Cavern 1962 whilst docked in Liverpool, happy memories!

[waynecameron]

I'm a big stone fan but gotta say Beatles paved the way

[jubbaronny]

They played in my town of Fleetwood in I think 1962 as support for my dad’s band, The Zeros, they were booed off!

[sess]

They weren't human. They were aliens from Planet "Real Music" and they were sent here to show us Earthlings how it should be done...and did they ever! I just listened to The White Album for the first time in years and 50+ years later it's still incredible. It was so far ahead of it's time back then and just amazing for 4 lads in their 20s. Never again, folks, never again! Sure glad I lived it.

[RideAcrossTheRiver]

Two-and-a-half-years later, _Rubber Soul_ was IT and the music world changed.

[andrewlankford]

Going by pictures of the inside of the cavern, it's a wonder why they didn't shut it down. That many kids crammed into a hole like that is a disaster waiting to happen.

[VG-iqxq]

It would be cool to see Paul and Ringo reflect on this

[david-ltwj]

I stood outside the cavern 4 years after this....and it was a bit of a memory then...

[majorliberator]

Never again will this type of talent produce such an immense catalog of songs where even those considered "Mediocre" would blow the doors in on todays "hits". Debate anyone?

[dandean]

Billy Kinsley is a truly decent and modest man. Bowie thought fit to cover his bands the, Merseybeats song Sorrow..
Working with the criminally underated Jimmy Campbell was one of few Merseybeat musicians to progress to stranger things post 64. Liverpool Express were a fine band .
Also a bloody superb bass player and vocalist.