3 - Episode 3 - Come Go With Me

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Episode 3 - Come Go With Me Perhaps I should have called this episode, The Whitechapel Year. It goes roughly from November 1961 (Brian Epstein seeing the Beatles at the Cavern) to November 1962 (‘Love Me Do’ making the charts). The lunchtime gigs were highly successful (and ‘unheard of’ elsewhere says Mick Green of the Pirates) and the young musicians, notably the Beatles, would go to NEMS in Whitechapel during the afternoon to hear new releases and determine songs for their repertoires. This is also the Bob Wooler episode as his imprint is all over the Cavern. His acronym for the bands was AIM – Attitude, Image, Music – with, as Bob said with dry humour, “Music at the bottom”. Some perceptive speakers include Willy Russell on hearing the Beatles and the Big Three; Norman Killon on Bob Wooler; and Bob Wooler on just about anything – “If B.E. had not been feeling that way that day, it never would have happened – okay?” The observations throughout this episode seem spot on. Willy Russell: “It was amazing that just six miles from where I lived I could hear music that had the same DNA as the American records I heard on the radio.” Absorbing stories of guest artists playing the Cavern – Johnny Kidd and Davy Jones from the UK and Bruce Channel and B.Bumble and the Stingers from the US. All four experiences are very different. (Unissued) So How Come Merseybeats (Unissued) Pretend Gerry & the Pacemakers (1961) (Unissued) What’d I Say Gene Vincent at Cavern

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