00:00This is the bedroom of the John Lennon Suite here at the Kasbah Coffee Cup Suites.
00:18So if you're a John Lennon fan, I should imagine this is where you want to stay.
00:28This is a replica of the guitar that John used to play.
00:55Here's Pete sitting behind his white pearl drum kit and then the lads are in their suits.
01:15The Beatles started here at the Kasbah Coffee Club, that's where the band formed.
01:20They played at the Kasbah on the opening night as the Quarrymen, John, Paul, George
01:25and a lesser known guy called Ken Brown.
01:28They became the Beatles there, they played as the Silver Beatles, John, Paul, George,
01:33Pete and Stuart, then they became John, Paul, George and Pete.
01:36So as the Quarrymen they played on 13 occasions and as the Beatles I think it was 42 or 43
01:42occasions from basically 1959 through to 1962.
01:47So it really is the foundation block for what followed.
01:53We haven't gone Beatle-tastic, we've just given a sprinkle of each Beatle in each suite.
01:58It was basically, they couldn't believe it, they couldn't believe that they were going
02:02to get access, that they were actually going to get into the house, be able to stay here,
02:09sleep here, stay where they stayed.
02:11So they were really excited about it.
02:13The stars on the ceiling were put up by John, Paul, George and Pete.
02:17They cut these stars out and put them up.
02:20You can see where they've painted over a star that was originally stuck on, but they got
02:24them up in the end and they were done by John, Paul, George, Pete and Stuart.
02:28The silhouette above the fireplace there is a silhouette of John Lennon.
02:33It was painted by Cynthia Lennon.
02:36That's the original stage area, that's where John, Paul, George and another guy called
02:42Ken Brown opened the Kaz Bar on the 29th of August 1959 and the rainbow ceiling above
02:49it was painted by Paul McCartney.
02:52The far ceiling above the stage, that was put up by John Lennon and my brother Pete.
02:58She grabbed hold of John, she spotted it about three weeks later.
03:01It really is, if there hadn't have been a Kaz Bar, there wouldn't have been a Beatles.
03:06It was the starting point.
03:09It was where John, Paul, George, Stuart met Pete.
03:14The five of them came together to form the original line-up of the Beatles and it all
03:19happened here at the Kaz Bar.
03:22It's a wonderful opportunity and I would certainly recommend it to anybody that's a Beatles fan,
03:29especially if they're a Beatles fan of the early days and the origins of the Beatles
03:36and where they truly started, right in the basement of this house.
03:42It's just a wonderful thing that what they've done for this to make it available for Beatles
03:49fans alike to come visit and stay and truly learn the real history.
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