00:00For generations of music fans, a visit to Liverpool isn't complete without stepping inside the Cavern Club.
00:06Hidden beneath Matthew Street, the venues become famous around the world.
00:10But its story began much more modestly when it opened as a jazz club on the 16th of January 1957.
00:17Now a new exhibition, 70 Years of the Cavern Club, is set to open at the Museum of Liverpool in
00:222027,
00:23celebrating the venue's remarkable journey across seven decades.
00:27Created in collaboration with the Cavern Club, the exhibition follows its transformation from a post-war jazz cellar founded by
00:34Alan Sitner
00:34into one of the world's most recognisable live music venues.
00:39It explores how the club became closely linked with Liverpool's own story,
00:43reflecting the city's changing social, cultural and economic fortunes over the decades.
00:48The exhibition also revisits the club's defining role in the rise of the Mersey Beat era and the Beatles.
00:55John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all performed there during their early careers
01:01before the Beatles became the club's resident band and went on to achieve worldwide success.
01:07Visitors will also discover how artists including Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, Queen, Elton John, Oasis, Adele,
01:15the Arctic Monkeys and Jamie Webster have all performed at the venue,
01:18reinforcing its reputation as a continuing centre for live music.
01:22The exhibition runs at the Museum of Liverpool from the 16th of January until the 31st of October 2027.
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