TODAY IN BEATLEDOM

April 23, 1960 — John and Paul perform at a pub in Berkshire as the “Nerk Twins.”

This would be the only time the two would perform as a double act, and it happened in front of a crowd of a whopping three people.

Paul McCartney later said of the performance:

“It was the Easter school holidays and John and I had hitchhiked down from Liverpool to help out in the pub,” he recalled. “We generally dossed around for a week and worked behind the bar. Then Mike said that me and John should play there on the Saturday night. So we made our own posters and put them up in the pub: “Saturday Night – Live Appearance – The Nerk Twins”.

“It was the smallest gig I’ve ever done. We were only playing to a roomful, a small, throbbing roomful.”

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