We had an excellent Beatles Tour today with Jackie Spencer, a Blue Badge Tour Guide and Official Liverpool Beatleguide. She has spent years researching her facts and showed us all the important places in the Beatles lives, including the hospitals where they were born, schools they attended, places they worked, where they grew up and where they met.
Casbah stage
Notice the low ceilings- which by the way were painted by the performers
Entrance to the Casbah
A rendition of the audition
We visited Strawberry Fields, the nearby orphanage
Liverpool is in a renewal phase with lots of new construction going on everywhere and is a very modern looking city. Jackie takes us to the place Ringo lived and the whole block is boarded up and scheduled for demolition this October. Someone left a box of chalk, so Tim left his message along with the many others there: “Let it Be”
Today is Diann’s birthday and Jackie plays the Beatle’s version of Happy Birthday for her. After we visit the barber on Penny Lane, she also plays that song as we drive on down the street. We see so many places mentioned in their music and Jackie always plays the song mentioning it as we drive around. It is just amazing to see the inspiration for so much of their music. At the end of our tour we went to the Cavern Club where the Beatles performed 300 times in 2 years. It is still a very popular place today and they are gearing up for Beatles week which is starting today/tonight.
Huge mall in Liverpool
After watching a beautiful sunset, it’s time for Diann’s birthday dinner.
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