SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – Today, the place has been transformed into apartments available for rent on Airbnb. But in 2012, the realization of a crazy and fun idea allowed us to discover this basement, frozen in time.
Par Gino Castaldo (The Republic)
When I learned that the Casbah Club – the place where the Beatles story began – was going to be transformed into a series of apartments offered on Airbnb, I remembered an exciting adventure I had with Ernesto Assante. In 2012 we had a crazy and fun idea. In collaboration with a travel agency, we organized, with around thirty people registered, a guided tour of Liverpool around the places associated with the astonishing history of the Beatles. We knew these places well: John Lennon’s house, Strawberry Field, Penny Lane, the Cavern Club and many more. But there was one that we had never explored before, a place shrouded in a certain mystery and little known: the Casbah Club. It was mentioned in biographies and other stories, but we didn’t know much about it, for a simple reason: more than a real club, the Casbah was above all the basement…
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