He named the venue the Jacaranda, after an exotic species of ornamental flowering tree, jacaranda mimosifolia.
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He recounts having to reassure Howie Casey, leader of The Seniors who were already established in Hamburg, who had cautioned Allan: "Listen, we've got a good thing going here in Hamburg. But if you send that bum group, the Beatles, you're going to louse it up for all of us."
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His mother died when he was very young and his father remarried to Millie Twigg, the family living in Litherland and being completed by Williams' half-sister Olwyn b.
Allan Williams offered him a job at the Top Ten Club, but it burned down shortly after opening.
A Caribbean steel band that had played at Allan Williams Jacaranda club in Liverpool took an offer to play in Hamburg.
He played a tenor pan as part of the first professional steel band in England, the All Caribbean Steel Band, which was formed by Gerry Gobin in 1955, and played regularly at the Joker's Club and then the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool, owned by Allan Williams.
While in Liverpool, England for a show at the legendary Cavern Club, the group arranged a meeting with former Beatles manager Allan Williams, also known as "the man who gave The Beatles away".
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