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Author:	Daniel K. Longman
Title:	The Beatles' Landmarks In Liverpool
Publisher:	Amberley
Country:	UK
Date:	15 Jul 2017
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Reference, Music
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781445652337
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Foreword by Bill Harry.

96 pages. Book dimensions: 16.5 cms x 0.75 cms x 23.35 cms.

From the back cover:

The appeal of the Beatles is everlasting. Millions of fans from all over the world continue to revel in the band’s eternal hits and their music stands out as one of Britain’s greatest cultural successes. This book takes the reader on a journey to the Fab Four’s home town of Liverpool and explores the significant sites and locations associated with the band’s unparalleled rise to stardom. We delve into the archives and uncover nostalgic images of Mathew Street, Strawberry Field and Penny Lane, as well as many other familiar landmarks and witness the changes that have taken place in the city through time.

This book will appeal to any true Beatles fan who wishes to discover that little bit extra about the world’s most famous boy band.

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Railmaster London 10th Mar 2019		This comment could go on any book about Liverpool. but its just my thoughts on the place. Maybe if it were not for The Beatles would Liverpool be cared for, or thought of, around the world or in England (actually is it?), as much or in the same way? Yet , of Britains coastal ports , Liverpool is Unique ( you could argue Bristol or Glasgow have similarities, but Bristol is in a tight spot with steeply climbing gorges and the rise of tide on the Avon give a different nautical feel. Glasgow on a wide firth, with a match on large scale shipbuilding as well as import/export has a different evolution. Liverpool, with its later populous hinterland all the way to Manchester, and arguably Leeds, and the just right width of The Mersey and the hugging of the quays and docks around the with the Mersey to The South and The Irish Sea to the immediate West and its relatively gentle rising streets (Woolwich in London has a similar geographical feel for me). A place, where, as my son observed when six at me ' They Talk Funny'. Liverpool's Dock Trade managed to cover Coastal Shipping, in the days when British roads were expensively close to being impassable water navigation was needed for heavy freight and cheap people movement. Inter-British Isles Trade- mainly to and from Ireland being well placed for Belfast, Dublin, Waterford and Cork, and the international trade routes less affected by any desires of the French or Dutch to annoy English Channel trading, to the likes of Africa and The Americas. Sometime in the Mid 1850s one of my past family relations moved their family from the Protestant SW Ireland where they had been involved in Church and social Music, to the up-coming Victorian Villas and Streets of Liverpool 6 and nearby areas. With the coming of time the large family descended into strands of hard working butchers and railway workers, moved west into the Lancashire Cotton Mills or to the USA, but some stayed in their profession of music teaching, academies and singing performances in halls and village clubs around the NW of England, with reviews in papers local of the latest things, whilst the main father wrote on the theory of Singing. As every good Liverpudlian eventually this man died at the age of 89 in retirement in leafy North Wales. The academy continued with two spinster daughters and other descendents, including teaching one Derek Guyler correct English speech and pronounciation. Such places may not feature directly in The Beatles circle of influence but provided part of the backdrop that had decline set in- managed , deliberate or reflective of economic change beyond control ? by the 1970s at least, but which in the 2010s shows a change of mild reversal and a determination to improve the area , retain the historically interesting and provide a future (as to if it is the best future only future years can judge), and there appears to be a cultural vibrancy - maybe smaller than the 1950s and 60s - returning to Merseyside. Did The Beatles abandon Liverpool, and was London to blame? Maybe, as 4 guys once the wider horizons were opened to them George , in keeping both his love of Music going and a spirtual sphere, which may have developed anyway, with money could afford to indulge in another part of England both passions, John in many ways New York was not so different to Liverpool anyway, Ringo , well think the opportunities taken from being with Rory Storme and onwards and upwards anyway probably if The Beatles had been commercially unsuccessful may well have plied his trade anywhere in the UK, and Paul was influenced more by the women in his life on making his home in slightly more rural places. In short as opportunities arose and they moved on, home places change, and going back does not always work once you move out, and even North Wales seems a second place for retirement when you have even bigger choices.

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