This Day in History: 1960-08-16
The five members of The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best – along with manager Allan Williams, his wife Beryl, her brother Barry Chang and friend Lord Woodbine, set off from the Jacaranda club in Williams’ green Austin van.
They stopped off in London to pick up a 10th passenger, Herr Steiner, an Austrian working in the Heaven and Hell coffee shop on Old Compton Street, who was to be the Hamburg promoter Bruno Koschmider’s interpreter. They then caught the ferry from Harwich to the Netherlands.
