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Ringo's Cavern debut was August 19, 1962, but his official debut with The Beatles was at the Horticultural Society Dance, Birkenhead on August 18, 1962. The group rehearsed for two hours before their performance at 10:00 pm.

Indeed... Ringo's first performance as a Fab was at
Hulme Hall in Birkenhead from 10pm.
The occasion was the local horticultural society's 17 annual dance. Ringo first played on the same bill as The Beatles on 13 March 1959, on the opening night of the Morgue Skiffle Cellar in Liverpool. He was playing with Al Caldwell's Texans, and further down the bill were the Quarrymen. Caldwell later became Rory Storm; the Quarrymen, of course, were to become The Beatles.

Cool photos, Kent!

To Brammy;

I believe the people in the Alan Caldwell and the Raving Texans are as follows.

Alan Caldwell (left)
Johnny Guitar Byrne (front right)
Reg Hales (washboard centre)
Jeff Truman on tea chest bass (back)

Spud Ward joins replacing Jeff the following month.

Actually.... all of this is true... if we negate the earlier times Ringo would sit in for Pete Best.....

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ringo-st ... tles-show/

Only two days after Pete Best was fired as the drummer of the Beatles, the group performed their first official gig with Ringo Starr. The concert took place at Hulme Hall in Birkenhead – a ferry ‘cross the Mersey away from Liverpool – on Aug. 18, 1962.

Starr, who had been poached from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, was no stranger to the Beatles. He met them back in 1959 and occasionally sat in with them over the years when Best was unable to make it. When discussion about firing Best began, it was George Harrison who lobbied for Ringo. “To me it was apparent,” he said in ‘Anthology.’ “Pete kept being sick and not showing up for gigs so we would get Ringo to sit in with the band instead, and every time Ringo sat in, it seemed like ‘this is it.’ Eventually we realized, ‘We should get Ringo in the band full time.’”