"If you dare tell me you saw Billy Fury...!!!"
Did I'm afraid PFR - and Tommy Steele, Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, The Drifters (think they might have been The Spinners first)
I saw all of Larry Parnes boys at Sunday Night concerts at the Liverpool Empire - sfa else to do on Sunday nights there in those days so I had to hang around till I discovered Samson and Barlow's Restaurant 100 yards up London Road, around the corner - The Spinners Club
It was either that, hanging around street corners or breaking into shops   
Around the corner from S & B was the remains of the old Liverpool Shakespeare Theatre where they regularly put on The Bards plays - I was taken to see Hamlet when I was eight
Over the ouad, to the left of St George's Hall was a crummy pub called The Victoria where I was later heard some excellent traditional singing - the area was bisected by Lime Street Liverpool's traditional red light district
A short walk away was the finest Jazz Club I have ever been in Colyer, Barber, Ball, Lyttleton, (Terry and McGee one night)   
That part of Liverpool was a hive of culture until the ***** Beatles moved in with the bulldozers :-)
Croydon - you can stick it
Jim