Even The Beatles played hundreds of gigs before their break-through. For them it came on Tuesday 27 December 1960 at the Town Hall Ballroom Litherland, near Bootle, Liverpool.
It is described by Mark Lewisohn in his book The Complete Beatles Chronicle: “If any one live performance in the Beatles’ career could be described as the turning point it would be this, their penultimate engagement in 1960. Their career was not without hiccups in the future, but, really, the group never looked back after this night.”
Wow! The Litherland moment .
The Beatles (who had only just changed their named from The Silver Beatles) had a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney (still on guitar at this time), George Harrison, Pete Best (drums) and Chas Newby on bass (he only played one more gig, four days later).
There can’t be anyone who doesn’t know how the story developed after that.
The Beatles were, of course, unique, but I’m sure many other bands have had similar break-through moments.
My own band MP5 (www.lemonrock.com/mp5) never expects to have one (we’re too old!), but we still strive to please the crowds as much as we can!
The Litherland moment – what all bands dream of.
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