The Casbah Coffee Club is an integral part of Beatles History. Now fans of the Fab Four will be able to stay at the club where the band played some of their earliest gigs.
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00:00The Carlsbad Coffee Club is an integral part of Beatles history. Now fans of the Fab Four
00:06will be able to stay at the club where the band played some of their earliest gigs.
00:10Yes, it is Beatle themed. It's not in your face. You know, it's a subtle undertone.
00:16But it's unique in the fact that there's nowhere else in the world,
00:20in the world, and I'll stress that, where we can lay claims to the Beatles played here,
00:26Beatles slept here, Beatles partied here.
00:29The Grade II listed building in West Derby has been developed to incorporate five separate apartments,
00:34one for each of the Beatles that played and stayed there from 1960 to 1962.
00:40There's the Lennon Suite, McCartney Suite, Harrison Suite, Best Suite, Sutcliffe Suite,
00:45and of course in the basement, the famous Carlsbad Coffee Club itself.
00:49Evelyn and Andy have been some of the first guests to stay at the suites.
00:53I would like to be able to stay in each room, so I want to try and work my way through all the rooms
01:00and then no doubt do the whole thing again.
01:03I think that the, you know, what Mona did with the cafe and then,
01:06you just, that bit of grass out there, can you imagine all the kids out there
01:10seeing rock and roll for the first time, it's just wow.
01:13We've been to the Casbah and it was so exciting and it's so important in the history of Beatledom.
01:20The Casbah on its own and Mona Best brought about many pivotal moments in the early days of the Beatles.
01:25Original Beatles drummer Pete Best, alongside his brother Rogue,
01:28have been working on converting the house since 2020,
01:31saying they are proud to continue with their mother's dream.
01:35As a family home, it's a wonderful extension of seeing Mo's dream come alive
01:40and we're able to do it and to stand back, you know, when we finished the project
01:47and we took a deep breath and looked at it, there was a sense of pride,
01:53there was a sense of love, there was a sense of emotion.