Cavern Club opens

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Event
Date	January 16, 1957
Short description	The Cavern Club opens
Location	Liverpool

The Cavern Club is officially opened by the Earl of Wharncliffe as a jazz-only club. Alan Synter had been influenced by a place in Paris called Le Caveau. He later said this, "I thought Mathew Street looked like a narrow street in the latin quarter, so I felt I was bringing the Left Bank to Liverpool! The place had been reinforced to make an air-raid shelter and the brick reinforcements had to be removed with a sledgehammer as we couldn’t get a pneumatic drill in. We did it by hand, and were left with a lot of rubble. That was the ideal foundation for the stage, which was made of wood and just went over the bricks." It would still be years before The Cavern would come to appreciate rock and roll acts.

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