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walking tour of Beatles sites in Central London and also details of sites further out from the centre;
maps and directions how to get there;
an essential souvenir of the London Beatles walking tours, plus an independent guide to many more Beatles places in London not visited on the tours
scores of previously unpublished and rare photos, including The Beatles at their homes and in Abbey Road Studios;
stories from people who worked with the Beatles, including Alistair Taylor, Brian Epstein's personal assistant, top record producer Alan Parsons and top DJ Kenny Everett;
written by Richard Porter - professional Beatles tour guide, former editor 'Off the Beatle Track' magazine and renowned Beatles expert
unique content and professional design make it an ideal momento of your trip to London, or a special present for your Beatle fan friend!
maps and directions how to get there;
an essential souvenir of the London Beatles walking tours, plus an independent guide to many more Beatles places in London not visited on the tours
scores of previously unpublished and rare photos, including The Beatles at their homes and in Abbey Road Studios;
stories from people who worked with the Beatles, including Alistair Taylor, Brian Epstein's personal assistant, top record producer Alan Parsons and top DJ Kenny Everett;
written by Richard Porter - professional Beatles tour guide, former editor 'Off the Beatle Track' magazine and renowned Beatles expert
unique content and professional design make it an ideal momento of your trip to London, or a special present for your Beatle fan friend!
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the Beatles London! This book will guide you to the places the Beatles lived, worked and played in what became known as `Swinging London'.
My fascination with the Beatles started when I was 12 years old, when I started listening to `oldies' radio stations and realised how great the Beatles were. However, I had no idea then that 35 years later I would be making my living as a Beatles tour guide!
I have now been guiding Beatles tours for over 20 years and in that time have met over 150,000 people from scores of countries. Interest in the Beatles is certainly not diminishing. The place that everyone wants to see is Abbey Road Studios and the crossing. However, as this guide will show, there are many other places in London of interest to a Beatles fan and this book will tell you about some of these.
There are literally hundreds of places in London with a Beatles connection and to visit them all would take several months - in fact, even I haven't visited them all and I've lived in London all my life! Therefore I've concentrated on those sites which I thought were the most important.
The Beatles were, of course, from Liverpool and spent their early career playing in scores of Liverpool clubs. However, after they started having number one records they had to make more and more trips to London. In fact, when Bob Wooler, the DJ at the Cavern Club, announced that Please Please Me had got to number one in the charts the reaction from the fans was stony silence - they knew the Beatles were going to spend less and less time in Liverpool.
As Ringo Starr said on the Beatles Anthology. "If you are in our business, you go to London - that's where it happens, the recording, the places to be seen, where it's happening is there. It's just a natural move."
As the motorway network hadn't been built then, a trip to London from Liverpool by road would have taken about five to six hours. Eventually it made more sense for the Beatles to relocate to London. Although the importance of Liverpool to the Beatles story cannot be overstated, it has to be remembered that they made all their records in London and also located their company, Apple, here.
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