Beatles Discovery Day

Along with July 7 (the anniversary of the day John and Paul met), November 9 should also be a day of Bealtes related celebration. November 9 should be remembered as Beatles Discovery Day. It was on this day in 1961 that Liverpool Music Store owner Brian Epstein first saw the Beatles at a noon-time performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club. Days earlier he a teen had walked into the record store requesting a copy of My Bonnie - which the Beatles had recorded in Germany with Tony Sheridan. He didn't have the record so he inquired around and found out where this band was playing and paid them a visit. John, Paul, George, and Pete (Best - remember this was pre-Ringo) impressed him with their musical abilities - or perhaps more by the way they wore leather. The "boys" often performed in leather pants and jackets, and Brian was known to like leather-clad boys. But whatever he saw in them, he knew what to do with them, and how to make them famous. Shortly after this meeting he became their manager, and the rest was history.