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Liverpool venue that hosted some of the Beatles’ earliest gigs turned into Airbnb
Fans can stay at the Casbah Coffee Club where the Quarrymen, the precursor band to the Beatles, had a residency
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianUnbeknown to her family, Mona Best had pawned all her jewellery and put the money on a bet – that Never Say Die, a 33-1 outsider, ridden by the then-novice jockey Lester Piggott, would win the 1954 Epsom Derby. There are also rooms named after Lennon, McCartney, and the Beatles’ original bass guitarist, Stuart Sutcliffe, who left the band to stay on in Hamburg to pursue a career as a painter – as well as Pete Best. Some of the first guests to stay in the renovated rooms, which occupy the upstairs floors of the building, were Evelyn Weatherston, 62, a psychiatric nurse, and her partner Andy Rees, 62, a decorator, from Glasgow.
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