
From Cilla Black to Gerry and The Pacemakers to Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, Epstein’s NEMS musical empire stretched far and wide through Merseyside.
Sitting front row center at the Pete Best Band’s Austin, Texas, performance in June was a woman who’d seen the drummer up close before. Nearly half a world away and half a century ago, Erika Bale was a music-loving Liverpool teen who was able to witness history unfolding before her eyes at a local club called the Cavern.