The Cavern Club in Liverpool is the cradle of British pop music. Impressively, 50 years after its foundation, it survives and thrives as a contemporary music venue. Through those five eventful decades – before, during and after The Beatles’ reign – the legendary cellar at 10 Mathew Street has seen its share of setbacks yet has played a role in each epoch of music, from 1950s jazz to 21st century indie rock. On this album are some of the many hallowed names who have rocked its crypt-like confines and breathed its (formerly) rather inferior air. Included here are the artists who helped to make the Cavern what it was, and were themselves shaped by the Cavern. Here, as well, are musicians who came along because every act should play the Cavern at least once in its lifetime. How many club venues could boast a roll-call as stellar as the track listing of this CD? Yet each of these acts has, at some time or other, made the descent down those fabled steps. The joint’s most celebrated DJ, Bob Wooler, once dubbed “the Best of Cellars”. In fact, with due respect the Marquee, CBGB’s and the rest, the Cavern is the best-known rock club on the planet. More than this, the Club’s story is a microcosm of the city in which it stands – a classic Liverpool tale of drama, disaster, romance and rebirth. The Cavern began as a dash of exotic fantasy in urban grime, grew so famous that its survival preoccupied the country’s top politician, yet was so undervalued in its home town that they demolished it. Perversely, it took the death of the Cavern’s most adored alumni, John Lennon, to trigger the Club’s reincarnation. Track listing as follows,
CD 1 01 THE BEATLES PLEASE PLEASE ME 02 CHUCK BERRY NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO 03 THE SHADOWS APACHE 04 THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP KEEP ON RUNNING 05 JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES SHAKIN' ALL OVER 06 CILLA BLACK ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART 07 THE HOLLIES I'M ALIVE 08 GENE VINCENT BE BOP A LULA 09 LONNIE DONEGAN CUMBERLAND GAP 10 THE FOURMOST HELLO LITTLE GIRL 11 THE SEARCHERS SWEETS FOR MY SWEET 12 MANFRED MANN DO WAH DIDDY DIDDY 13 CHRIS FARLOWE OUT OF TIME 14 WILSON PICKETT IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR 15 BEN E. KING STAND BY ME 16 STEVIE WONDER I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER
CD 2 01 QUEEN KILLER QUEEN 02 PAUL MCCARTNEY ALL SHOOK UP (LIVE AT THE CAVERN) 03 THE KINKS YOU REALLY GOT ME 04 THE BIG THREE SOME OTHER GUY 05 THE ANIMALS THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN 06 HERMANS HERMITS I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD 07 THE MOODY BLUES GO NOW 08 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY 09 THE ZOMBIES SHE'S NOT THERE 10 THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE 11 LITTLE EVA THE LOCOMOTION 12 CLIFF BENNETT & THE REBEL ROUSERS GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE 13 BILLY J KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS LITTLE CHILDREN 14 THE MERSEYBEATS THINK OF YOU 15 THE FLOWERPOT MEN LET'S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO 16 ELTON JOHN BORDER SONG
CD 3 01 THE ROLLING STONES IT'S ALL OVER NOW 02 THE WHO MY GENERATION 03 OASIS PART OF THE QUEUE 04 THE YARDBIRDS FOR YOUR LOVE 05 DONOVAN SUNSHINE SUPERMAN 06 WISHBONE ASH BLOWIN' FREE 07 GEORGIE FAME YEH YEH 08 BO DIDDLEY BO DIDDLEY 09 STATUS QUO DOWN DOWN 10 TOM ROBINSON 2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY 11 EDWIN STARR WAR 12 THIN LIZZY WHISKEY IN THE JAR 13 ROD STEWART HANDBAGS AND GLADRAGS 14 EMBRACE ALL YOU GOOD PEOPLE 15 KT TUNSTALL BLACK HORSE & THE CHERRY TREE 16 TRAVIS WHY DOES IT ALWAYS RAIN ON ME 17 THE CORAL IN THE MORNING 18 ARCTIC MONKEYS THE VIEW FROM THE AFTERNOON (LIVE - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSION)
It is not crap - I have bought it - I have played it - I have enjoyed it (apart from the aforementioned track).
These kind of sweeping statements with nothing to back them up really get on my nerves!
How can an album that includes the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Chuck Berry, The Hollies, The Kinks - the list goes on and on - ever be considered crap?!!!!!!!
it seems kind of incomplete...no cass and the cassanovas,rory storm and the hurricanes,remo williams four,tony sheridan,undertakers,cilla black,mojos,beryl marsden,tedtaylor,the coasters and thats just off the top of me head.....did all of those people play the cavern???
it seems kind of incomplete...no cass and the cassanovas,rory storm and the hurricanes,remo williams four,tony sheridan,undertakers,cilla black,mojos,beryl marsden,tedtaylor,the coasters and thats just off the top of me head.....did all of those people play the cavern???
It does have Cilla Black.
The idea was to showcase the world-famous artists who have played at The Cavern, and although you and I would certainly buy an album featuring the likes of the artists you mentioned, there have been countless other compilations albums of that kind that did not sell.
I honestly don't see how this album could ever be classed as crap - perhaps someone would care to explain.
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