On Nov. 9, 1961, Brian Epstein left his Liverpool record store and walked a block to a seedy dive called the Cavern Club.
The entertainment? A local band's lunchtime show.As he made his way into a cellar packed with grungy teenagers, this urbane 27-year-old looked conspicuously out of place in a pinstripe suit and dress shoes.
Little did the crowd know that he was a step ahead of the times, like the four young musicians on the tiny stage — the Beatles.
Today Epstein is largely forgotten, a footnote in Beatles history. But during five dizzying years that changed music and helped trigger the social revolution of the 1960s, he discovered, managed and plotted the Fab Four's stratospheric rise to world fame.
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