UK PAUL MCCARTNEY PERFORMS AT THE CAVERN CLUB

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(14 Dec 1999) Eng/Jap/Nat • Sir Paul McCartney, one time singer, guitarist and song writer with The Beatles, will once again take to the stage of Liverpool's famous Cavern Club, the venue where the Fab Four played their first concert in 1961. • Three hundred tickets to the concert were raffled across the globe and those adoring Beatles fans lucky enough to have been selected for this exclusive event will fill the dark underground club in Liverpool on Tuesday night. • While McCartney hasn't played there since 1963, he made a total of 281 appearances at the club while under the management of their late manager and confidante Brian Epstein. • The concert on Tuesday will mark the first time that McCartney has played the legendary Liverpool nightspot since 1963. • It was while at the Cavern Club that The Beatles were first spotted by their future manager Brian Epstein who helped them become arguably the most famous band in the history of popular music. • Although there were only three hundred tickets up for grabs, response from fans all over the world has been staggering. • Many of those who failed to get tickets have travelled thousands of miles to be in Liverpool on Tuesday night. • SOUNDBITE: (English) • I'm getting calls from Russia....Russia !...and people from Australia, somebody called from Argentina and said they were going to come, we said you haven't got a ticket, because we knew they didn't have a ticket, but they said we don't care we're coming anyway, and from Buenos Aires and from America, some couples are flying in from California, and another couple are coming from Tokyo........this is world music, this is rock and roll as world music today because rock and roll is drawing the world to this little place (the Cavern Club) • SUPER CAPTION: Geoff Baker, spokesman for Paul McCartney • McCartney will be playing material from his newest album, Run Devil Run, as well as other songs from the likes of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard. • Also scheduled to join McCartney for the Cavern Club show is Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on several tracks on Run Devil Run. • McCartney first played at The Cavern Club with The Beatles at a lunchtime show in February 1961. • Their total fee was five pounds sterling (8 U-S dollars). • This will be his 281st appearance at the club. • McCartney first played the Cavern Club back in 1958 as part of The Quarrymen, forerunners to The Beatles, a group that also included both John Lennon and George Harrison. • Despite the fact that The Beatles split up in 1970, their loyal fan-base has, if anything, increased. • SOUNDBITE: (English) • My official letter came through on Friday or Saturday I think and I'm going in, and I can't wait, it will be the gig of the millennium. • SUPER CAPTION: Ben Lomas, aka John Ono Lennon, Beatles fan • SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) • I came here with my friend, because he got the tickets, we don't really have any time in the UK, just a three day trip to see Paul McCartney. • SUPER CAPTION: Sumiyo Omori, Beatles fan • The original Cavern was located in the basement of a building that was bulldozed in 1973, filling the club with rubble. • A new club of the same name opened nearby later that year, but it failed and its name was changed. • In 1982, spurred by the fatal shooting of John Lennon in 1980, the city of Liverpool excavated the basement of the original site of the club. • The building's original bricks were either sold off for charity or used in the reconstruction of a larger Cavern Club on the same site as the original venue. • SOUNDBITE: (English) • SUPER CAPTION: Dave Jones, owner of Cavern Club • SOUNDBITE: (English) • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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