On November 9, 1961, at lunchtime, Liverpool Music Store manager Brian Epstein descended 17 steps to the basement of the Cave Club in Matthew Street. The place was humid and globum, the hall full of teenagers in sweaters to frighten music. Then the Beatles came out - in leather jackets, undaunted: they smoked, ate, argued with the audience and turned their backs on the hall. Epstein's assistant, Alistair Taylor, who went with him, later recalled that the band looked "absolutely terrible, but absolutely amazing". Two weeks earlier, on October 28, 1961, a young man named Raymond Jones walked into the store and asked for the Beatles' single "My Bonnie." Epstein was annoyed by this: he had never heard of the band, even though he was playing only a few hundred meters from his shop. The recording was requested again the next day, and Epstein questioned what the band was. Later in his autobiography, Epstein wrote: "I was immersed." The distortion of form and content only seemed to evoke: these climactic guys were inseparable charisma and talent, Lennon. especially. Right after lunch, Brian announced to his colleagues that he was considering becoming the manager of this strange group - to the surprise of others. It should be noted that Ryan Epstein has no experience in the entertainment business. On December 10, he offered his services to the Beatles, and on January 24, 1962, he signed a contract with Lennon, Harrison, McCartney and the best Pete. Epstein dressed them in elegant black suits (with his money), taught them discipline, forbade them to perform for low pay - in fact "on purpose" in Alimania, which swept the world since the fall of 1963. Within three years, the band played at the Cave Club more than 250 times, and the club itself suffered a difficult fate: it was closed several times and rebuilt, but after Lennon's death it was restored, using 15,000 original bricks from the old basement.

On November 9, 1961, at lunchtime, Liverpool Music Store manager Brian Epstein descended 17 steps to the basement of the Cave Club in Matthew Street. The place was humid and globum, the hall full of teenagers in sweaters to frighten music. Then the Beatles came out - in leather jackets, undaunted: they smoked, ate, argued with the audience and turned their backs on the hall. Epstein's assistant, Alistair Taylor, who went with him, later recalled that the band looked "absolutely terrible, but absolutely amazing". Two weeks earlier, on October 28, 1961, a young man named Raymond Jones walked into the store and asked for the Beatles' single "My Bonnie." Epstein was annoyed by this: he had never heard of the band, even though he was playing only a few hundred meters from his shop. The recording was requested again the next day, and Epstein questioned what the band was. Later in his autobiography, Epstein wrote: "I was immersed." The distortion of form and content only seemed to evoke: these climactic guys were inseparable charisma and talent, Lennon. especially. Right after lunch, Brian announced to his colleagues that he was considering becoming the manager of this strange group - to the surprise of others. It should be noted that Ryan Epstein has no experience in the entertainment business. On December 10, he offered his services to the Beatles, and on January 24, 1962, he signed a contract with Lennon, Harrison, McCartney and the best Pete. Epstein dressed them in elegant black suits (with his money), taught them discipline, forbade them to perform for low pay - in fact "on purpose" in Alimania, which swept the world since the fall of 1963. Within three years, the band played at the Cave Club more than 250 times, and the club itself suffered a difficult fate: it was closed several times and rebuilt, but after Lennon's death it was restored, using 15,000 original bricks from the old basement.