My dad was a Dingle lad who worked on and off on the door of the cavern and other clubs when he was back from sea, so between that, going to school with Gerry and sharing a house with the fourmost he knew most of the main characters from the scene 🙂
I’ve been lucky enough to meet many of the ‘names’ as a kid on the Wirral, and over the years since.
So, IMO, do they ‘care’ about it? Not that much, In fact I think that the Beatles don’t mean that much to them (middle class art students!) but they’re bloody proud of the entirety of merseybeat as a movement, and there’s a lot of ‘so and so’s auntie went out with Rory Storm’ or ‘My dad went to school with’ and similar tales, everyone’s got one of them 🙂