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Chapter 1

Susan stared into the mirror to examine her usually straight black hair which was now perched precariously on the top of her head in a puffed up way. Jill's expectant face appeared next to hers in the hallway mirror and they both burst into giggles. Susan followed her cousin into the front room and sat on the floor next to the radiogram, upon which Jill was delicately placing a new '45'. A familiar sound filled the room as the record sang out to "bring back my bonnie to me" in a rocky kind of way whilst Jill handed Susan a newspaper.

`MERSEYSIDE'S OWN ENTERTAINMENTS PAPER
MERSEY BEAT Vol.1 No.13 January 4-18, 1962 price THREEPENCE
BEATLES TOP POLL !

Susan stared at the picture below the headline. It showed a mean looking guitarist, a younger looking similar guitarist, and a baby faced guitarist all with strange foreign looking haircuts and leather suits. With them was a moody looking drummer with his hair gelled back normally.

"That's them on the record y'know. They made it in Hamburg..... Germany." Jill said in the adenoidal scouse accent Susan loved. It had grown on her with the frequent visit's to her aunt's house in the Wirral. No-one else around there talked like that, but Jill had adopted it from her friends across the Mersey - much to her Dad's annoyance.

Jill's face glowed in delight as she pointed out John on the picture. "I'll take you to see 'em if you like! Me and the girls are going for the later show if we can get in". Susan paused for a moment and nodded gleefully, thinking of all the tales about the famous "cavern" she had heard from Jill.


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