Today’s “Stories About the Beatles from the Early Days You Still Haven’t Heard (Unless You’re a Hard Core Beatles Fan)”:

Today’s “Stories About the Beatles from the Early Days You Still Haven’t Heard (Unless You’re a Hard Core Beatles Fan)”:

In June 1960, with no drummer, and very few gigs, Allan Williams arranged for The Beatles to back Janice the Stripper at a strip club in Liverpool that Williams ran. Paul played drums, accompanied by John, George and Stuart on a tiny stage.

The four Silver Beetles were tough negotiators for this week long residency. 

“Why so much?”, Williams asked. 

“For the indiginity. The bloody indignity of it all!” Paul replied. 

“John, George, Stu and I used to play at a Strip Club in Upper Parliament Street,” recalled Paul, “backing Janice the Stripper. At the time we wore little lilac jackets, or purple jackets, or something. 

Well, we played behind Janice and naturally we looked at her, the audience looked at her, everybody looked at her, just sort of normal. At the end of the act, she would turn round and, well, we were all young lads, we’d never seen anything like it before, and all blushed, four blushing red-faced lads.” 

“Janice brought sheets of music for us to play all her arrangements. She gave us a bit of Beethoven and the ‘Spanish Fire Dance’. So, in the end, we said ‘We can’t read music, sorry, but instead of the ‘Spanish Fire Dance’ we can play ‘The Harry Lime Cha-Cha’, which we’ve arranged ourselves, and instead of Beethoven you can have ‘Moonglow’ or ‘September Song’. Take your pick. Instead of the ‘Sabre Dance’ we’ll give you ‘Ramrod’. So that’s what she got. She seemed quite satisfied anyway.”