Crooner who sang with The Beatles auditions on The Voice
Seventy-four-year-old Stevie Calrow will audition on this weekend’s edition of The Voice and he’s got a pretty interesting backstory: he gigged with The Beatles.
Calrow, who hails from the Fab Four's native Liverpool, often used to go and watch the band play at the local Cavern Club and one night in 1962 found himself called up to sing. “I got a shout out from the DJ at the time to go down to the band room and perform with The Beatles,” Calrow tells The Voice co-host Marvin Humes in what is the second episode of this year's series.
“I told everybody, nobody believed me!” “I did sing with The Beatles. Three songs. It’s the best backing I’ve ever had in my life,” he jokes. “It’s a memory to treasure”.
Joining the legendary band was actually somewhat of an SOS. “They’d done 14 days of gigs on the trot and they’d worn their voices out completely,” Calrow told the Liverpool Echo in 2013. Finding Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best backstage, Calrow said the DJ explained: “Do you want to get up and sing with them because they can hardly talk, never mind sing.”
By: Emma Daly
Source: Radio Times
