Showing posts with label My Pilgrimage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Pilgrimage. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Zombie Angels & The Heavy Metal Beatles


Wandering round Liverpool there's certainly lots of hard evidence that the Beatles are Mereyside's favourite sons.


Not many gift shops could boast such a cool sign.

This was a less successful effort which my Son Chico dubbed the Zombie Angel, but is supposed to represent Mother Liverpool & Her Four Sons. Four? Where's John?


There he is. Don't you always think of Lennon as a chubby cherub? Me neither.


Just down the road is a statue depicting Eleanor Rigby.


And that's not the only musical park bench around Mathew Street.


John Lennon is immortalised, both outside the Cavern Pub...


...and inside it too. Or is that a chinese warrior king? I'm not sure.


But a gift shop in Albert Docks seeks to redress the balance a little. Paul McCartney - he's an all white kinda guy.


And all four make an appearance at the local shopping centre...


...and on the outside of the Hard Days Night Hotel.


Don't jump George! The beard isn't that bad!

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Learning In Liverpool


This summer my family and I visited Liverpool, home of Steven Gerrard & Jamie Carragher, the Lambanana & of course The Beatles.

It’s an amazing city, with a civic sense of humour and one that really knows how to capitalise on it’s heritage. If you didn’t know where the Beatles came from you’d soon realise just from walking around.




HMV record store





Why did the penguin cross the road? - How should I know!


From time to time I’ll try to post a few pics and recommend things to do in Liverpool.

You won’t be surprised to know I learned a lot about the fab four while I was there. But I also got an insight into the power of songwriting from a very unusual source. You can read my guest post, what I learned about songwriting from a crazy guy in Liverpool over at Nicholas Tozier’s very wonderful blog.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

My Pilgrimage


I'm back from my pilgrimage and raring to go deconstructing more songs and digging up more songwriting tips from Lennon & McCartney. I may even slip in the odd post about my travels.

Can you guess where my family and I have been?