The Cavern Club
The original Cavern Club entrance in 1963 | |
| Location | Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, UK |
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| Owner | Alan Sytner, Bob Wooler, Ray McFall, Tommy Smith, Bill Heckle, Dave Jones |
| Type | Music venue |
| Genre(s) | Rock 'n' roll, Merseybeat, rock |
| Opened | 16 January 1957, reopened 26 April 1984 and 11 July 1991 |
| Closed | 28 May 1973, and 3 December 1989 |
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Le Caveau de la Huchette, jazz club in Paris, the model for the Cavern
The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.
The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The club became closely associated with Merseybeat and regularly played host to the Beatles in their early years.
The Cavern Club closed in 1973 and was filled in during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop. It reopened in 1984. It was temporarily closed again from 1989 to 1991, and has been open ever since.