Cavern song is a dream come true
It was fantastic. They let me sing a few Beatles songs as well’
A LEEDS community member living with a stage four cancer diagnosis has fulfilled a life-long dream by singing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, “the birthplace of the Beatles”.
Stanley Glucksman, 73, entered a song he wrote, I Wanna Live, for the Liverpool International Song for Kindness contest.
Although only the top entries from the 1,500 submitted were meant to be performed at the Cavern, the organisers made an exception, given the circumstances, and Mr Glucksman received an ovation from the crowd.
“I’ve always loved singing,” he told the JC. “The words to the song were based on my kidney cancer. And I was thrilled when they invited me to sing to the club.
“They made me pay to go in when I arrived and told them I was performing. They thought I was trying it on. But it was absolutely fantastic — they let me sing a few Beatles songs as well.” He put a lot of effort into his entry, with a video filmed in the recording studio at Leeds Jewish youth centre The Zone.
Mr Glucksman is undergoing target therapy on his cancer, which doctors say is incurable.
“It is just a question of being as brave and positive as possible. I have five grandchildren. I want to see them [grow up].”
Contest founders Anna Prior and Dr Shamender Talwar said it was “about encouraging acts of kindness throughout the world.
“We were delighted to offer kindness to Stanley in helping him fulfil his dream.”