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 anyt...