Acting

Sam Leach

Liverpool, UK

Sam Leach promoted beat dances around Liverpool in the early 1960s, including several with the Beatles. He was a firm believer in local talent and without him the Merseybeat scene would not have developed as it did. He was born in Liverpool, son of Stanley Leach, a clerk working on the city docks, and his Canadian wife, Pauline. In the late 1950s he started promoting shows in the Norris Green suburb of Liverpool. He moved to the city centre with regular nights at the Cassanova and established all-night sessions at the Iron Door, a rival club to the Cavern, in 1961. In the same year, he began Operation Big Beat nights at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, with attendances reaching 4,000. He called his one man set-up the Leach Organisation. Sam first saw the Beatles early in 1961 and was soon working with them, calling them the “boys with the atom beat”. He organised their first appearance in the south of England, at the Palais Ballroom in Aldershot, Hampshire, in December 1961.

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Featuring never before seen footage of the most seminal rock band in music history, BUILDING THE BEATLES is an unprecedented look at the players who have been left out of the story of The Fab Four’s meteoric rise… until now. Journey back to meet Mona Best (mother of the first Beatles drummer Pete Best), Allan Williams, and Sam Leach, each of whom played a crucial role in making The Beatles who they are. Unearthing the pieces of unseen Beatles history, this documentary is a moving testament to the people who changed history forever.

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