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Would have loved to have been there but alas I wasn't old enough at the time!

Brian Epstein signed them, but Adrian Barber wasn't happy with this, particularly as Eppy wanted to make them a fourpiece group, and put them in suits a.k.a. Beatles! Long story short they auditioned with Decca and Eppy released a poor demo tape, arms up the back situation. They parted company but later their EP ‘The Big Three at The Cavern' was released (I have a copy, quite rare). This is a live recording introduced by Bob Wooler, the Cavern DJ. In 1963 they tried to revive the group with Elton John's drummer Nigel Ollsen on an album called 'Resurrection'. Adrian Barber now lives in Hawa

The Big Three were a Liverpool band who evolved from Cass and The Cassanova's, regarded for a time as the top Merseyside group.Despite the fact that they were a trio, they were one of the loudest Merseybeat bands, due to their guitarist Adrian Barber's electronic wizardry. He produced giant amps nicknamed 'coffins' standing over five feet high, and were in great demand by The Beatles and other groups. Their leader and drummer Johnny 'Hutch' Hutchinson was, according to Cilla Black, considered as replacement for Pete Best in The Beatles but didn't get on with John Lennon. Ringo stepped in and

This one? Here's 1881 And 1916 And 1955 To prove it's a small world, my grandparents lived on Grimston Road from 1930s-1970s, and my parents were married in St Peter's Church