It is 1954.  Steve and Dave are looking for adventure.

  Their home town of LIVERPOOL is scarred by war.

   NEW YORK is the future and it will soon be the richest city in the world.

  They need to see it and feel the excitement.  They need to be there.

  THEY NEED TO BE CUNARD YANKS. 

 

 

RMS Media was the transatlantic ship Steve and Dave first worked on as Cabin Boys

 

                    CUNARD’S FLAGSHIP  –  1950s  –  RMS QUEEN MARY

 

          NEW YORK CITY AND THE CUNARD PIERS ON THE HUDSON RIVER  – 1950s

                     

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                       CUNARD YANKS – Opening Pages and Chapter Headings

                       Cunard Yanks – Prologue A Gretsch Duo Jet

                       Chapter One – Cabin Boys Chapter Two – New York City

 

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                   ONE READER’S BROTHER WAS A CUNARD YANK

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                         CUNARD YANKS AND THE BEATLES 

   THE CASBAH COFFEE CLUB,  WEST DERBY VILLAGE, LIVERPOOL

     The Beatles first got together as ‘The Quarrymen’, playing skiffle.

     Then they heard rock ‘n’ roll on the records arriving from America.

     Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.

     The Beatles learnt the songs and played them at The Casbah Coffee Club.

     A few miles from the city centre, it was Liverpool’s very first beat music venue – and the opening night was even mentioned in a local newspaper.

From The Casbah The Beatles moved on to clubs in the German port city of Hamburg.

 

THE CUNARD YANKS HAD BROUGHT AMERICAN RECORDS TO LIVERPOOL 

     The 1950s Cunard liners returned to Liverpool full of American goods.

      As recalled by Liverpool poet Roger McGough and Ted ‘Kingsize’ Taylor.   

         

 

   

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