:10:05
Then we went back to Liverpool,
and there were quite a few bookings.
:10:08
You know, they all thought
we were German.
:10:10
Anyway, Bill was from Hamburg, and
they all said, "You speak good English."
:10:17
I was told that he was playing
in a place called The Cavern.
:10:21
It was an old wine cellar...
:10:22
that had been turned
into a sort of lunch club.
:10:35
It was Brian that went there.
:10:38
And he was only at the back of the hall...
:10:40
listening to those four boys,
but whatever he saw...
:10:44
he saw that little spark.
:10:47
And he went right around
and offered himself as their manager.
:10:50
I was immediately struck
by their music, their beat...
:10:54
and their sense of humor,
actually, onstage.
:10:57
And even afterwards, when I met them...
:10:58
I was struck again
by their personal charm.
:11:01
And it was there that,
really, it all started.
:11:05
It took about eight months to...
:11:07
get to the stage
where we had a recording contract...
:11:10
and we were having
the first record issued.
:11:13
That was Love Me Do.
:11:36
I think it was a very fortunate
coming together...
:11:39
that we seemed to hit it off very well.
:11:41
When we were in the studio,
we did really collaborate as a team.
:11:45
There weren't any egos
protruding through.
:11:49
But I was very, very lucky
to have met up with them.
:11:53
George had done no rock 'n'roll
when we met him...
:11:56
and we'd never been in the studio,
so we did a lot of learning together.
:11:59
He had a very great
musical knowledge and background.