Allan Williams

Allan Williams
Williams in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Allan Richard Williams
Born	(1930-02-21)21 February 1930 Bootle, Lancashire, England
Died	30 December 2016(2016-12-30) (aged 86) Liverpool, England
Occupation(s)	Talent manager, businessman
Years active	1959–2016

Allan Richard Williams (21 February 1930 – 30 December 2016)^[1] was a British businessman and promoter who was the original booking agent and first manager of the Beatles. He drove the van to take the young band to Hamburg, West Germany, in 1960, where they gained the vital show business experience that led to their emergence on the world stage. Williams was also a promoter and agent of a number of other Liverpool rock acts, helping stoke the Merseybeat boom of the early 1960s.