LIVERPOOL — The BBC is producing a six-part drama series titled Hamburg Days, which will feature Jorden Myrie portraying Lord Woodbine. The series will focus on the Beatles' performances in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962.

Lord Woodbine, whose real name was Harold Adolphus Phillips, was a Trinidadian calypso musician. Jamie Carragher wrote the script for Hamburg Days, which is inspired by the memoirs of Klaus Voormann, the individual who designed the cover of the Beatles' 1966 album, Revolver.

Phillips served as a Royal Air Force flight engineer during the Second World War, arriving in Britain in 1943. After the war, he returned to the UK on the Empire Windrush and later settled in Toxteth, Liverpool, where he started a family. Phillips appeared in footage of Lord Kitchener singing London Is The Place For Me at Tilbury Dock.

Phillips managed the Jacaranda club in Liverpool and also worked as a builder and decorator in Merseyside while tending bar in Liverpool 8 clubs. In the band's early career, Phillips served as co-manager of the Beatles alongside Allan Williams. The Beatles played more than 250 gigs in Hamburg during the 1960-1962 period and George Harrison was underage when the group first arrived in Hamburg in 1960.

Screenwriter Jamie Carragher said, "McCartney and Lennon respected him in a musical sense." Carragher added, "There weren't many people in their lives at this point who wrote their own songs, and Lord Woodbine did that via the calypso tradition." Malik Al Nasir, an academic and author, researched Phillips for the British Library's Beyond the Bassline exhibition. Al Nasir stated, "They used to come and offer to clean and collect glasses for Woodbine." He also said, "In return Woodbine would feed them and help them out by teaching them chords."

Phillips died in a house fire in 2000 at the age of 72. His family unveiled a plaque dedicated to him from the Windrush Foundation outside the Jacaranda in Liverpool last summer. Phillips was also portrayed by actor Charlie Caine in the 1994 film Backbeat.