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[[파일:The_Jacaranda.jpg|오른쪽|섬네일|The Jacaranda founded by Williams]]

 

Williams was the son of Richard Edward Williams, a local council building inspector and Annie Cheetham, tracing part of his ancestry back to [[:cy:Owen Williams (Owain Gwyrfai)|Owen Williams (Owain Gwyrfai)]], a Caernarfonshire millwright, poet and pioneer [[사전 편찬|lexicographer]] in the [[웨일스어|Welsh language]]. His mother died when he was very young and his father remarried to Millie Twigg, the family living in Litherland and being completed by Williams' half-sister Olwyn b. 1937 and half-brother Graham b. 1938.<ref>{{웹 인용|url=http://home.ancestry.co.uk|제목=Family tree on Ancestry.co.uk}}</ref> In his mid teens he left home to sing with Joe Loss in the [[맨 섬|Isle of Man]]. Later he sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and even tried to sell Blackpool rock in [[스페인|Spain]].<ref>Graham Williams (brother)</ref>

 

In 1958 Williams leased a former watch-repair shop at 21 Slater Street, Liverpool, which he converted into a coffee bar. He named the venue the Jacaranda, after an exotic species of ornamental flowering tree, ''jacaranda mimosifolia''. The Jac (as it became known) opened in September 1958. The Beatles were frequent customers, with [[존 레논|John Lennon]] and [[스튜어트 섯클리프|Stuart Sutcliffe]] attending Liverpool Art College nearby and [[폴 매카트니|Paul McCartney]] being at Liverpool Institute adjacent to the college. Asking for the chance to play the club, Williams instead put them to work redecorating, with Lennon and Sutcliffe painting a [[벽화|mural]] for the Ladies room. Finally, the Beatles began playing at the Jac on occasions.<ref>{{웹 인용|url=http://www.ramonalouisewheeler.com/The_Jacaranda_Club.php|제목=The Jac Is Back}}</ref> Between May and August 1960, Williams secured a number of bookings for the group at other places.<ref>Scott Wheeler: ''Charlie Lennon: Uncle to a Beatle'' (Boulder, Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2005)</ref> One was backing a local stripper, named Janice; when she discovered the Beatles were not familiar with the "Gypsy Fire Dance", they instead backed her with a rendition of the Harry Lime theme tune.<ref name="ALittleBare">{{웹 인용|url=http://mersey-beat.com/archives/littlebare.shtml|제목=A Little Bare|성=McCartney|이름=Paul|출판사=Bill Harry/Mersey Beat Ltd.|확인날짜=10 June 2009}}</ref>

 

In August 1960, with Best joining as the group's new drummer, Williams and The Beatles left Liverpool in a small, crowded van which took them to Hamburg for the first time. He continued to get them bookings, until he fell out with The Beatles in 1961 over the payment of his ten per cent commission in a later trip to Hamburg. Williams had no further business dealings with the group and was especially disappointed that Sutcliffe, of whom he was especially fond, was the one who told him the band would not pay. In 1962, before [[브라이언 엡스타인|Brian Epstein]] became the band's manager, he contacted Williams to make sure there were no remaining contractual ties. There were none, but Williams forthrightly told Epstein: 'Don't touch them with a fucking bargepole, they will let you down.'

 

Years later, Williams and the Beatles spoke fondly of one another, with McCartney describing Williams in ''[[비틀즈 앤솔로지|The Beatles Anthology]]'' as 'a great guy'. In the 1970s, Williams played a crucial role in producing the first Beatles conventions to be staged in Liverpool, and he was a perennial VIP guest at the city's annual Beatle Week Festivals. In 1975, he published a memoir, ''The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away'', to which Lennon gave his endorsement. Recovering a tape of a latter-day Beatles show in Hamburg (performing on New Year's Eve of 1962–63), he saw it released (in 1977) as ''Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962''. In 1999 the micro budget film All Those Years ago was released by Shotmaker Productions. The film is largely based on Allan's own recollections of his time managing the fledgling Beatles. Although initially flattered and sympathetic to the film, in his second book A Fool on the Hill, Williams described the film makers as being deceitful and the film as "utter rubbish" ''The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away'' is also the title of a musical by Irish playwright Ronan Wilmot, which was performed at the New Theatre in Dublin in 2002.<ref name="The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away">{{웹 인용|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/beatles/gaveaway/review.shtml|제목=The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away}}</ref>

 

He died on 30 December 2016 in Liverpool at 86 years old.<ref>{{뉴스 인용|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/30/beatles-first-manager-allan-williams-dies-at-86|제목=Beatles' first manager, Allan Williams, dies at 86|성=Rawlinson|이름=Kevin|날짜=30 December 2016|뉴스=The Guardian|확인날짜=31 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{뉴스 인용|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/arts/music/allan-williams-dead-beatles-manager.html|제목=Allan Williams, First Manager of the Beatles, Dies at 86|성=Kozinn|이름=Allan|날짜=31 December 2016|뉴스=New York Times|확인날짜=2 January 2017}}</ref>

 

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/stars/beatles/memories/alan_williams.shtml Allan Williams BBC biography]

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/mersey/5177.shtml Allan Williams in a BBC Archive report on the first annual 'Mersey Beat convention' in 1971]