McCartney Times

When Mary McGlory saw the Beatles at the Cavern Club in early 1962, she decided there and then that she would form a band. The Fab Four had just had their first hit with “Love Me Do” and Liverpool was abuzz with the Merseybeat sound. One year later, McGlory was back at the Cavern watching the Beatles, this time with her bandmates: bassist Sylvia Saunders, guitarist Valerie Gell and Mary’s guitarist cousin Sheila.After the gig, the Cavern’s DJ and compere Bob Wooler asked them if they’d like to come backstage. “So we all went in,” recalls McGlory, “and John Lennon and Paul McCartney were getting changed. Bob said to them: ‘Boys, this is The Liverbirds. They are going to be the first all-female group.’ And John looked at us and said, ‘Uh-huh. Girls don’t play guitars.’ The cheek of him! We thought: ‘You just wait. We’ll show you’.”

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Source: How The Liverbirds defied Sixties sexism (and John Lennon) to become the first all-female rock’n’roll band | The Independent