For a lot of people, the history of music starts with The Beatles, and you can understand why.

There’s a pub in Liverpool called The Grapes, just down the road from The Cavern Club, where the Fab Four famously used to play. You see, The Cavern Club wasn’t how it is today; there was no drinking license, so punters (and bands alike) had to find somewhere else to wet their whistle before and after shows. The Beatles did this at The Grapes.

Nowadays, there are photos of the band scattered all over the walls, including one over a booth you can sit in, which shows the band having a post-show pint in that very same spot. It’s funny to look at that photo now, as those four lads had no idea just what kind of impact they were going to have, not just in the UK, not just in the US, but in the way that people viewed music around the world.

It won’t have been long after that photo that the band found themselves on a plane to the US, a bit of chart success behind them, sure, but completely oblivious to their immediate future. The moment those aircraft wheels hit tarmac, the band knew they had tapped into something previously unheard of, only heightened when they went on The Ed Sullivan Show and had more or less the entirety of the States in awe at every single note.

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