"we all felt it was their swan song"
On August 3,1963,the beatles played their last ever show at The Cavern. It was a bittersweet watershed, reports danny eccleston
Out of the darkness: the end of an era – McCartney and Lennon on-stage at The Cavern, 1963; (below) John with newborn son Julian, April 8, ’63.
AMONG THE astonishing 250-plus shows that The Beatles played in 1963, a couple were especially poignant. On April 8, The Beatles were entertaining the Swimming Baths in Leyton, east London, while Cynthia Lennon was alone in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, giving birth to Julian. It was not yet necessarily the custom for fathers to attend births in 1963, but even so, Lennon would not have a moment to meet his first-born until April 11, squeezed between shows in Birkenhead and Middleton.