Liverpool marks 50th anniversary of first McCartney-Lennon meeting



















A statue of John Lennon from his early
days keeps watch over Mathew Street,
home of many Beatles sites in Liverpool.
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John & MerseyBeats

John Lennon performs onstage with
his first band, The Quarrymen, at a
church function in Woolton, Merseyside,
Great Britain, on July 6, 1957.

Cavern Club

The original subterranean Cavern
Club was filled in and closed
in the early 1970s. In 1984, a new
Cavern on pretty much thesame
spot opened, and it hosts live music
most every day. Paul McCartney
returned for a gig in December 1999.

St. Peter's Church

Years after The Beatles broke up;
someone noticed that a woman named
Eleanor Rigby was buried outside St.
Peter’s Church, the same place where
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met
in July 1957. McCartney insisted, however,
he made the name up.

John Lennon lived at “Mendips,” his
aunt and uncle’s semidetached middle
-class house, for much of his childhood
in south Liverpool’s Woolton area.
Lennon had the small, second-floor
bedroom above the main entrance.

Liverpool features several memorials to The
Beatles, but the one depicting the Madonna
with infants on Mathew Street may be the
most unusual. It’s by Liverpool sculptor
Arthur Dooley, now dead.

Liverpool marks 50th anniversary

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