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Post by liverbird on Dec 28, 2009 14:02:00 GMT
My Sentimental Journey takes me back to the 1960’s when my Dad left the Army and managed a small pub in Liverpool called ‘The Empress’. We settled in quite quickly and my Dad hired a group to play in the evenings, they did their first gig in our Pub with their new drummer Richard Starkey, whose mum lived at the back of the pub and we used to do errands for her and posted signed autographed pictures of the band to local residents. As you are aware the Beatles went bigger than anyone could have imagined. But Ringo never forgot the place he did his first gig with the Beatles. ‘Sentimental Journey’ was his first solo album and ‘The Empress’ pub is the front cover. I wish now we had kept 1 or 2 of the signed pictures we posted around the houses, they would be worth a fortune nowadays. I went to the pub last year for the first time since I was a young girl and took my kids with me, apart from the decor the place is still as I remember it all those years ago. I made my own ‘Sentimental Journey’….
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sprucy in the sky
I'll Be On My Way
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Post by sprucy in the sky on Dec 29, 2009 0:00:13 GMT
wow thats amazing your one very lucky lady
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Post by The End on Dec 29, 2009 1:20:09 GMT
Ah brilliant! Do you remember much about the band from when they played there?
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Post by liverbird on Dec 30, 2009 19:38:14 GMT
Ah brilliant! Do you remember much about the band from when they played there? i remember listening to them when i was in bed and thinking wow! they are rubbish just shows how much an 8 year old knows haha
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Post by The End on Jan 5, 2010 0:39:52 GMT
LOL!! Bet you wish you had a tape recorder back then though!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 12, 2010 22:28:23 GMT
Ah, so this is your 1960's story 'liverbird'... good one
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