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[[Image:Cavernclub.jpg|thumb|280px|right|External view of the 'New' Cavern Club, January 2006]]
'''The Cavern Club''' is a [[rock and roll]] club at 10 Mathew Street, [[Liverpool]], [[England]], where [[Brian Epstein]] was introduced to [[the Beatles]] on [[9 November]] [[1961]]. The club opened on [[January 16]], [[1957]].

== Early history ==
(contracted; show full) The new design was to resemble the original as closely as possible.  This was a difficult period of massive economical and political change in and around Liverpool and the club only survived until 1989, when it came under financial pressures and closed for 18 months. In 1991, two friends - school teacher Bill Heckle and Liverpool cabbie Dave Jones - reopened the club. They still run the club today and despite being a world famous tourist spot, the club continues to function primarily as a live music venue
., although they do employ a DJ on a Friday and Saturday night. The music policy varies from 60's (Beatles naturally !), 70's, 80's and 90's clasic pop music to indie, rock and modern chart music. 

On [[December 14]], [[1999]], former Beatle [[Paul McCartney]] returned to the New Cavern Club stage to play a set publicising his new album [[Run Devil Run]].

The Cavern Club is still open as one of the UK's most famous venues. It has around 40 live bands performing every week; both tribute and original bands, although the majority perform their own material. 

The venue now operates a [[pay to play]] policy where bands lose a prepaid deposit if they do not gather a fixed number of audience members there to see them.

The Cavern is also used as a tour warm-up venue with semi-secret gigs announced at the last moment. The [[Arctic Monkeys]] did this is on October 2005, as well as many others before them.
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== External links ==
*[http://www.cavern-liverpool.co.uk/ Cavern City Tours]
*[http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/16/beatles.club.ap/index.html Cavern Club at fifty]

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