The Cavern Club was where The Beatles first got their start. At the time, none of them were yet eighteen.
The band's earliest members were all children of Liverpool's working class. They would never study desperately like upper-class children, get into prestigious schools, and follow the path of society's elite.
They simply "played music." In the eyes of their calm and rational parents, their chosen profession was highly unreliable.
Bands were like shooting stars, vanishing without a trace after a brief burst of brilliance. Yet Liverpool had a wall of fame recording the names of musicians who had reached number one on Britain's music charts since 1953. The Beatles were among them. They had left their names in history too.
There were many ways to go down in history. One could start a war like Hitler and trigger World War II, or play some rock and roll like The Beatles and drive boys and girls wild.
Perhaps there had never been a person named Jason in history, but like Caesar, he had been written into operas and sung about by people.
Wasn't that what boys wanted? To be sung about and worshipped as heroes. How many could avoid being bewitched like by the Sirens' magic, forgetting their mission amid the flattery and praise of sycophants?
In the late 1960s, a kind of music called psychedelic rock emerged in the British and American pop scenes. It incorporated non-Western musical elements, such as the sitar from Indian music. But composers needed drugs to enter that psychedelic state, and the genius Lennon was the first in the band to pick up that habit.
The Mirror of Erised could show people what they desired most in its reflection. It could also make people "addicted," wasting away their time before it.
Hallucinations were so difficult