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A new Beatles attraction could be built on the Liverpool waterfront after Chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged up to £2m as part of his 2021 Budget.
The money will allow the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to develop a business case for the attraction.
However, the proposal has prompted a backlash from those who feel the money could be better spent.
The city already boasts destinations like The Beatles Story, the Cavern Club and the Liverpool Beatles Museum.
Liverpool's Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said the proposed venue, named The Pool, was "not a museum" but "an immersive experience".
He told BBC Radio Merseyside: "Just like the government's invested in Stratford upon Avon for the Shakespeare stuff... we think The Beatles are a huge global attraction for the UK, and we should have something of significance in the Liverpool city region.
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At the end of George Harrison‘s life, he knew how he wanted to leave his body. He’d prepared himself for the moment of death for years through Hinduism teachings. When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, George was upset that John didn’t leave his body the right way. Coincidentally, it was through John that George had his first brush with death. Years before John died, his mother, Julia, was killed after being struck by a car, and her death shook George to his core. John asked George to join The Quarrymen in February 1958. However, George had to prove himself to John, who saw him as a kid. George was a kid. At just 15 years old, he’d unknowingly joined what would become one of the most famous rock bands in music history.
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon had one of the best songwriting partnerships in one of the biggest bands in the world, The Beatles. However, they knew how to get under each other’s skin. In their partnership, they’d often write songs separately. Paul would write sweet songs while John would sometimes write sadder angstier tunes. They were sweet and sour, yin and yang, but they always finished every song off together. Despite those beautifully creative moments in their friendship, Paul and John could be brutal to one another.
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Who is the richest The Beatles member? Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, or George Harrison. Who is the richest?
The Beatles was an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 by the band’s legends Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Throughout its 10-year career until 1970, the band’s line-up changed several times, but the best-known line-up of the band consist of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The Beatles‘ discography includes 13 studio albums in core and 21 studio albums worldwide, 5 live albums, 36 EPs, 54 compilation albums, 63 singles, 17 box sets, 22 video albums, and 68 music videos. Debuted in 1963 with Please Please Me, The Beatles released its twelfth and final studio album in 1970, titled Let It Be.
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At the height of Beatlemania, it seemed like every girl on the planet wanted to become either Mrs. Lennon, Mrs. McCartney, Mrs. Starr, or Mrs. Harrison. For George Harrison, finding love in that climate wasn’t the greatest. For a Beatle, dating was hard and best left forgotten. So George probably didn’t expect to meet his future first wife, Pattie Boyd, on the set of A Hard Day’s Night. It was practically love at first sight too.In Pattie Boyd’s early modeling career, she almost worked herself into the ground. She moved out of her parent’s home, moved into a small apartment in South Kensington, London, with a friend, and work came gradually until she was doing three to four jobs a day.
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The Beatles’ Let It Be jumps back onto the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated October 30), re-entering at No. 5 following its deluxe special edition reissue on October 15.
The set was first released in 1970 as the final studio effort from the band, and also doubled as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name. The album spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 (June 13 – July 4, 1970-dated charts) and is one of a record 19 No.1 albums for the group.
For its special edition, the album was reintroduced in a variety of expanded formats and editions, including many with previously unreleased tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.
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If you spot Sir Paul McCartney out and about, don't ask him for an autograph or selfie – the superstar says he's always found them "strange" and would prefer a chat instead.
The Beatles musician has told Reader's Digest he doesn't plan on signing any more autographs for fans or posing for bad-quality photos because he'd rather have a deeper interaction.
He said: "It always struck me as a bit strange – 'here, can I write your name down on the back of this till receipt please?' Why? We both know who I am."
Fans are often keen to pose for selfies with Sir Paul, 79, to keep a memento of having met one of music's biggest stars, but he explained why he wasn't keen on phone photographers either.
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When George Harrison was in The Beatles, he didn’t get many chances to contribute his own songs. So he stockpiled his tunes and kept them at the ready, waiting for the day he left the band. In 1970, he entered the studio with tons of songs to choose from for his debut solo album, All Things Must Pass. Along with “My Sweet Lord,” there was another heavily religious song on the album, and it has an interesting back story.
In Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, George says he was brushing his teeth when suddenly this melody came to him.
“I was cleaning my teeth… and suddenly in my head came this ‘You don’t need a dum dada-pmm pa-pmm-pa, you don’t need a bmm papa-bmm.’ All I had to do was pick up the guitar, find what key it was in, and fill in the missing words,” George said about the song, which would later become “Awaiting On You All.”
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George Harrison was not a fan of authority. In an interview with the Evening Standard in 1966, the Beatle shared his thoughts on such subjects as the war in Vietnam and religion. There was a common thread in the topics he spoke to: the people in power don’t practice what they preach.
Harrison told writer Maureen Cleave that he thought about the war in Vietnam every day and he thought it was wrong.
“Anything to do with war is wrong,” he said, as recorded in the book George Harrison on George Harrison.
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A signed John Lennon drawing created by the late musician during a 1969 visit to Scotland is coming up for auction in Lichfield.
Autographed ‘To Derek Peace + Love John Lennon 1969’, the framed picture is a sketch of the former Beatles member and Yoko Ono in the musician’s caricature style.
Derek was the uncle of owner Frank Massie, who inherited the work from his late father after it had been passed on to him.
The work will go under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on 1st November.
Source: lichfieldlive.co.uk
