They became the biggest band in the world, but without a dilapidated building in Liverpool, a lucky bet on a race horse and one woman’s ambitious dream, the Beatles may never have existed.
The Casbah Coffee Club, owned by the mother of the band’s original drummer, Pete Best, is where it all began for the Fab Four. She purchased the building after winning a bet and gave the Quarrymen – the precursor band to the Beatles – a residency.
