Beatles fans will be able to sleep, play and party like the band as the club where the Fab Four started their career is opened as an Airbnb. The Casbah Coffee Club, in West Derby, Liverpool, was opened in 1959 by Mona Best – mother of the band’s original drummer Pete – in the basement of her family home and saw 13 performances by John Lennon’s first band the Quarrymen and more than 40 by The Beatles. The rooms above the club, which closed in 1962 but has remained a tourist attraction, have now been transformed into suites named after Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, as well as Stuart Sutcliffe, the band’s original bass guitarist, and Best. Best, 82, moved to the house when he was 16 and said he had “fond memories” of growing up there and performing with the band. He told the PA news agency: “It’s turned out to be our Shangri-La. “With the advent of the Casbah opening, which was 1959, it was guaranteed that there’d be a party every Saturday night. And hence that’s why the unique expression is, The Beatles played here, The Beatles partied here and The Beatles slept here.” He said the opening of the house as guest accommodation was a “lasting tribute” to the band and a “projection” of his mother’s dream, offering fans the chance to follow in the steps of their idols.