Beatles City

Beatles City returns from Liverpool for a third series - here are some of the highlights you can look forward to. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road being released and
we’re marking the occasion with a special bonus episode of Beatles
City podcast.
Our guest is Beatles expert Kenneth Womack, whose new book Solid State
is billed as ‘the most definitive account yet of the writing,
recording, mixing and reception’ of The Beatles final album. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Our final guest of this season is the Emmy Award-winning George Harrison tribute artist Gavin Pring.
The Liverpool-born musician now lives in America, where he has a huge list of Beatles-related accomplishments to his name.
Gavin performed as George six nights a week on the Las Vegas strip for over a decade, won an Emmy with his band mates for The Fab Four's 2012 PBS television special and even performed on the same stage as Paul McCartney during a tribute show held in George Harrison's honour. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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When John Lennon wrote Strawberry Fields Forever it was inspired by a real place - a Salvation Army children’s home with a wooded garden where he used to play.
In the decades since it was released as a single in 1967, hundreds of thousands of Beatles fans have paid pilgrimage to the site.
Next month, they will finally be able to go behind the famous red gates as Strawberry Field opens to the public after a redevelopment.
Laura Davis meets the centre’s mission director, Major Kathy Versfeld of the Salvation Army. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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There are certain Beatles photographs that stick in the mind - from the chance snap of The Quarrymen playing together on the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney to Astrid Kirchherr’s carefully posed art images of the band in Hamburg.


In this week’s episode presenters Laura Davis and Ellen Kirwin are joined by the man who took that first picture as a boy in Woolton - as well as Astrid Kirchherr’s archivist, Vladislav Ginzburg.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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This week we’re looking at ‘The Beatles effect’ on young musicians growing up in Liverpool.


What’s it like to know that no matter how successful you become, you will never be the biggest band from your home city?


‘Part-time rock star, full-time legend’ Pete Wylie and Anton Eager of The Cheap Thrills share their experiences with our presenters Laura Davis and Ellen Kirwin.


Produced by Michael Pearson For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Liverpool legend Billy Butler is known across Merseyside for his famous BBC radio show Hold Your Plums but was also known for his time being a DJ in the Cavern during the 1960s.
In this episode Laura Davis speaks to the presenter inside the famous Mathew street venue about his time in the club and shares memories of meeting the Beatles for the first time and how he was the one they wanted to impress.
Presenters: Laura Davis, Ellen Kirwin
Producer: Michael Pearson For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Colin and Sylvia Hall probably know the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon better than than their own.
In fact they even spent several years living inside Mendips, the house on Menlove Avenue here in Liverpool where John lived with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George.
It's their job, as National Trust custodians, to look after Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road, where Paul McCartney grew up and take visitors on tours of the properties.
Join Laura Davis and producer Michael Pearson on this intimate tour of these two houses and the special relationship the couple have to these iconic landmarks. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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This week's guest is responsible for piecing together one of the most detailed books in Beatles' history.
Dubbed the world's foremost authority on The Beatles, Mark Lewisohn spent 10 years writing and researching his 900-page book Tune In and it's only the first of three volumes he has planned.
You can get ahold of Tune In by clicking here.


Presenter: Ellen Kirwin
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We eavesdropped as New York-based memorabilia experts Julian’s Auctions spent a day at the Beatles Story here in Liverpool, evaluating the scraps of paper, old photographs and other intriguing finds brought to them for valuation by members of the public. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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