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LIVERPOOL - BEATLES TOWN FOREVER
Mathew Street Cavern Club and Beatles Everywhere

In 2008, Liverpool is set to be the Culture Capital of Europe. In 2007 the city on the Mersey River is the capital of The Beatles. Well, it will always be the Beatles mecca, but August 2007 celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Cavern Club where famed “mop-top” rock group began their rise. Even if you couln't make the anniversary, Liverpool remains the town where the “Fab Four” originated with lots of opportunity to celebrate 20th Century’s most idolized rock band. The Mathew Street Music Festival every year is the largest free to the public annual music event in Europe the last weekend of August.

John, Paul, George and Ringo will live forever in the alley of 10 Mathew Street where the Cavern Club can be found much as it was when the Beatles played to packed houses and still going with regular live music performances in its underground brick cave bar ambiance. The actual original basement cellar was destroyed but the bricks used to rebuild it doorstop away. Pose for a photograph with John Lennon, or at least his bronze stature, languidly loafing across the alley from the club entrance, next to the Liverpool Wall of Fame, featuring a marker for every Liverpool music group that had a number one hit, more than any other city in the world. At the From Me To You shop in Mathew Street find the largest variety of officially licensed Beatles, Apple Music, John Lennon and Yellow Submarine memorabilia merchandise. In the fall of 2007 the Hard Days Night Hotel is to open at the end of Mathew Street for those who want to live, eat and sleep the Beatles.

Visit the Casbah Coffee Club in West Darby, now an English Heritage building where the Beatles first appeared and the only Beatles tourist destination unchanged since its ceilings were painted by the members of the group. Take the Magical Mystery Tour, a two hour bus tour winding through the lives of the Beatles, visiting their homes and schools as well as the places that inspired some of the band’s most memorable songs like “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”. The tour finishes at the Cavern Club.

Not enough Beatles, yet. Oh, no, your “Hard Days Night” has only begun. Head to the Albert Dock on the Mersey Riverfront to The Beatles Story attraction at the Britannia Vaults. The Beatles Story is a walk through maze of exhibit rooms taking you through an atmospheric journey through the life & times, the culture and music of The Beatles. Here you can compare the Mathew Steet Cavern Club to a full size replica recreated here. Walk through the Yellow Submarine and get a look behind the scenes of Abbey Road Studios. George Harrison’s first guitar is on display along with other memorabilia. An audio guide is narrated by John Lennon’s sister, Julia, lending personal insights, and contributions of remembrances by George Martin, Brian Epstein and Sir Paul himself.

There are lots of other Beatles sites and venues all around Liverpool, from official guided tours, private tours, bars they drank in, a statue of Eleanore Rigby, The Liverpool School of Arts where Sir Paul McCartney studued and still supports, The White Star Pub, even the National Trust gets into the act watching over the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at Mendips & 20 Forthlin Road where the core of the group first lived, composed and rehearsed. © Bargain Travel Europe

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