The release comes as VisitLiverpool and Liverpool Film Office launch a new campaign – ‘Liverpool, The Ultimate Setting’ – showcasing the city region’s rich film history and its reputation as a filming hub and film tourism centre.
Mike Ward, chief commercial officer at Port Sunlight Village Trust, said its 2021 filming “must have been like stepping back in time to that evening when The Beatles and Brian Epstein arrived to Hulme Hall, just on the cusp of taking over the world.”
Among those who witnessed filming was Port Sunlight-born visitor David Thomas, who attended the historic 1962 gig a few weeks after seeing the band for the first time at The Cavern Club when Best was drummer and the band had recently returned from their residency in Hamburg.
Best was sacked by Epstein at the request of the other three band members on 16 August 1962, in the wake of their first recording session on 6 June where producer George Martin had expressed disquiet about Best’s drumming.
