BEATLES – Day By Day – 8/25/61
Friday, 25th August, 1961
The Beatles rounded out their week at The Cavern with a lunch time preformance.
They were also booked by the Cavern’s owner, Ray McFall, for an evening engagement, but at a slightly different venue. McFall occasionaly rented the Mersey Ferries boat Royal Iris for what he called Riverboat Shuffles. McFall liked to offer a cross section of musical styles for these excursions to draw a large a crowd as possible.
Topping the bill this night was perhaps Britain’s most popular Jazz musician, Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band. Second on the bill, and appealing to a very different crowd, were The Beatles.
Tickets for the cruise, which started and ended at Liverpool’s Pier Head were 8/6 (8 shillings and 6 pence [about 45p in current UK currency =Â 85c USÂ ]) with the ferry scheduled to depart at 7:45pm for a 3 hour 5 min circuit of the Mersey estuary.
