We owe so much to Ivan!

After waiting almost 38 years, I finally visited this church and even got a private tour of the church hall. Safe to say it was one of the best days of my life….almost cried with emotion. Love my boys 😍😍🎸🎸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

David, well told.. You make the viewer feel like they were there...These photos are superb! So much history in St. Peter's... John's uncle George, Eleanor Rigby on a family headstone, Bob Paisley (Fmr Liverpool manager)... You were very instrumental in my Beatles/Liverpool education on my three visits. Thank you... Gordon

Great shots,David!!Indeed,the biggest day in music history.Glad we got to experience the day thru you!!

David: A day in the life... great story well told!

We only usually see one or two pictures of the floats in other media, seeing the others gives a deeper perspective. It's great how you tell these snippets of history, really puts us at the scene, thanks David.

Simple, honest and truthful. A great and beautiful video. Well done.

Those streets are just beautiful.......

The day the music was born

Another great video, David… your videos and detail are wonderful. Love your channel. I’ve known about this for a long time, but this ls the most pictures I’ve seen on this event. Thanks. When you think of all the events that had to line up perfectly from Ivan, taking Paul to the church that day to the kid asking for my Bonnie at at Nems and all the little things in between… Really makes you think that there is a higher power. But also blows me away, John, playing with an out of tune guitar, only knowing banjo chords, and then six years later he’s on the Ed Sullivan show playing triplicates on all my loving. Wow!

Beautiful story. Very emotional. Thank you. 😊

Happy anniversary to the world!! 65 years ago today that miraculous meeting took place and changed music forever.

This summer I was in Liverpool and by chance, had the opportunity to enter the Church Hall as a potential party giver was given a tour of the facility by St. Peter's Church staff. My taxi tour guide (clever fellow, but "hey, it's a job!") had no idea the Quarrymen had played in the field across the street in the afternoon of July 6, 1957, but he did know the Church Hall as the place where John met Paul. It had a great vibe. Parquet wood floor and great acoustics. We stood where the lads once played and were prodded to sing a Beatles song (fab guide, no slouch!). I chose I Saw Her Standing There, because it's the earliest Beatles song I could think of, but I was really thinking we should sing some skiffle or rockabilly to be more on point with what the Quarrymen probably played there. Very well told! I wish I'd known about you when I toured Liverpool! There's a limited number of creative collaborative duos (or trios or quads once you add in George and Ringo) in the history of the world, even in art. Most art is a solo exercise. Johannes Bach was dead six years before Mozart arrived on the scene, although we know Wolfgang did once meet Johannes' son. Beethoven once heard Mozart perform in 1787. But the three great pillars of classical music never made any music together. They are, in the Western cannon, so far as I can tell, the only comparable musical artists that would rival Lennon/McCartney/Harrison. There's a VERY LONG list of close artists, but there's only one Beatles. There's a lot of talent, but there's very little that's the VERY BEST. So it's fair to ponder and question how and where these two geniuses met and under what circumstance. Pure serendipity (a lucky roll of the cosmic dice), or some kind of intelligent design (planned lifetimes/foreordination, God''s gift to crumble communism), a cultural druidic toadstool (an genetic expression of an ancient cultural trait suppressed by the Romans), or a magical mystery tour? You've thought deeper into this than most. What do you think David?

Very interesting, thank you for posting this.

Thanks for this video. I grew up in Garston, and Speke in the 60’s. My grandparents lived on Reddington Road in Allerton. They would tell me that John and Paul we’re visiting the two boys next door during the week. They were the Norris brothers that they were supposedly friends with. I never found out if this was true. I was only about 8 years old or so, and of course I was mad about the Beatles! (My grandparents were probably pulling my leg!) I moved to America when I was 15. I still miss England but I am happy in the USA.

Really enjoy your posts! I’ve never visited Liverpool, only London. It’s my dream to be where it started. Thank you.

Excellent! Almost as good as being there!

...first class thanks

Awesome.

Thank You.

As Lennon told biographer Hunter Davies in 1968, “I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen? It went through my head that I’d have to to keep him in line if I let him join. But he was good, so he was worth having. He also looked like Elvis. I dug him.”

So lovely. Much richer than the usual "I was afraid he would hit me" account.

Emotion to see again places I have visit on 2016.....thank you

Gracias David por este video espectacular. Ivan Vaughan cuenta, en el libro "Gritad: la verdadera historia de los Beatles", que el primer contacto fue fríamente entre ambos con un simple "hola, John" y con un "hola, Paul".

many thanks for that vid

Very interesting, thank you for that from France.

A truly historic place. That's where music for the whole world started. I'd love to visit. Better this than some war memorial. Beatles4Ever

Yayyy Ivan!!! Thank you! I just arrived in Liverpool last night. Will be here for 2 1/2 days. Hope I can see this most important site! 😃

It's great to see other photos from that day. Who saved the printed invite?

Minor note: the guitar Ian James is holding does not look like the same guitar Paul used - the headstock is different.

Hoy es 6 de julio de 2023

met at a church: LORD GOD Almighty Destiny has it place in the eternity.

There’s a photo of the first Quarrymen gig two weeks before and many people think that Paul can be seen watching the Quarrymen play. Do you think it’s Paul? Also Paul was friends with George for 2 years before he met John I believe, they even hitchhiked together and played guitar 🎸

So Paul played and sang Eddie Cochrans “Too Tired to Rock” left handed on John’s right handed guitar? I thought Paul brought his own guitar to the Fete.

Woolton not Walton!!

Wow, David!! You really have a very unique and interesting presentation of Beatles history. I have been a fan over 40 years now and I have always studied,in depth,the Beatles biographies. However, you add a whole other dimension to the information. I'm very very impressed. I'm a Yank and didn't know, for example, the intricate British legal aspects of the wording of Brian Epstein to Pete Best on that fateful day ( August 16,1962). I find all that very fascinating. Please keep up the great work.