After leaving Cardiff I drove north to Liverpool. The Poll is the birth place of The Beatles, a World Heritage Site (Maritime Mercantile City), World Capital City of Pop, place of many Superlambananas, and port of registry of the Titanic.
View of the Waterfront and City Centre from Liverpool Cathedral
One of the many Superlambananas
Some of their landmarks and things to do are the Maritime Mercantile City comprising six areas in the centre Pier Head, Albert Dock, Stanley Dock, Duke Street, Commercial Quarter in Castle Street, and the Cultural Quarter in William Brown Street. Also Liverpool Cathedral and climb into the tower to get amazing views of the city, or get into the Fab Four state of mind and revive some of their history going to The Cavern, The Casbah Coffee club, or if you’re more hardcore fan even considering Penny Lane, and Strawberry fields.
Royal Liver Building, in top one of the two fabled Liver birds
Albert Dock
A day in the Life
A must stop in Liverpool is going to The Cavern Club, the original club was closed in 1973 but not before hosting The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Elton John, and The Yardbirds. The place was rebuilt in almost the same spot, recreating as similar as possible, and using the same bricks in 1984.
Entrance to the Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is one of the UK’s most famous venues, and you can drop by and listen live music as I did, you might be lucky and get in a night with a Beatles tribute band playing.
Just in front of the club you find the Cavern Pub, another venue with live music, there in the entrance you can find the wall of fame featuring every band that played in the Club, also inside you can see the Hofner bass that Paul McCartney played on December 1999 at the Cavern Club during Run Devil Run tour.
A tribute band playing at the club
Macca's Hofner bass guitar
John Lennon Statue and Wall of Fame
If you’re not familiar with the history of the Beatles a good option is the Beatles Story on Albert Dock, you can have a journey into the life, music, and impact of the Fab Four.
Imagine White Room at the Beatles Story
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles were the inspiration for Jerry Seinfeld to end his TV sitcom, he confessed that the hunger for the Fab Four has lasted all his life, every time he hears a song of the band he turns up the volume, and attributes this to the fact of they ended too soon for him. So I want to close this post with the Seinfeld episode “The Finale”.
Elaine: If I call Jill from prison, do you think that would make up for the other ones?
Jerry: Sure.
Elaine: Cause you only get one call. The prison call is like the king of calls.
Jerry: I think that would be a very nice gesture.
Kramer: I got it - it's out! How about that, huh? Oh, boy, what a relief.
Jerry: See now, to me, that button is in the worst possible spot.
George: Really?
Jerry: Oh yeah. The second button is the key button. It literally makes or breaks the shirt. Look at it, it's too high, it's in no-man's land.
George: Haven't we had this conversation before?
Jerry: You think?
George: I think we have.
Jerry: Yeah, maybe we have.
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