BEATLES LIVERPOOL FROM THE M6

The Beatles Liverpool showed up on the way from Lancaster to Cambridge.

Should I stop and look around? Pose by the statue?

At the very least, sing a few Beatles songs on the way by?

Me: Honey, take a music video of the Beatles Liverpool sign, and me singing.

Her: Really?

Earlier in the week I spoke to an older man from Liverpool who was visiting Thurnhall Hall near Lancaster.

He knew where they all grew up and liked taking people around when they visited.

His record collection ran to over 600 records. Not CDs, vinyl.

The more we talked the more revved he got.

I’m a Beatles fan, he’s a Beatle brother.

 

Before we took the music video the wife and I sang Yesterday, at least as much as we remembered.

Then Let It Be, and ended the set with Should Have Known Better.

Do you remember Yesterday?

 

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be.
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.

 

Then we sang it over and over, not the whole song, just that part.

Followed by Let It Be:

 

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

 

Ending with,

 

I should have known better with a girl like you
That I would love everything that you do
And I do, hey, hey, hey, and I do

 

Liverpool was one half mile away. At least the exit was a half mile.

 

Last Exit To Liverpool

If you drive by the Liverpool exit you need to pipe up.

Hum a few bars and fake it, sing what you do know over and over until you’re done.

The Beatles have earned your effort.

If not for them we’d still be listening to songs they bumped off the Top of The Pops.

1963 Top Ten:

 

To 1964

 

A Beatles Liverpool Refresher

The lads showed up in America in their trademark suits.

Young guys wearing suits to work was normal.

They were show business suits worn to fit in the climate of the times.

Then the times changed, or they changed the times.

Instead of continuing as they started, the Beatles morphed into who we remember them as.

After the documentary we know them better than ever.

 

I tried to watch Get Back as background television and turned it off.

I finally got uninterrupted viewing while my grand baby took a nap on Granddad.

The conversations, music, and visuals couldn’t have been better.

Baby soaked it all in, sleeping like a champ with The Beatles in her background.

I watched four young guys in their late twenties, their wives and kids, all bracing for an uncertain future.

Their future isn’t so uncertain in 2022, and that makes it even more sad.

They wrote the songs that defined the early Beatles when they were all bright and fresh faced together in the same room.

In Get Back they look more middle-aged. Was it the wear and tear of fame? Or realizing the dream of being at the Top of the Pops has more than a few nightmarish moments?

When fans love you so much they want to tear you to shreds can’t be a comfort.

The lesson baby and I learned was to dream your dream and see where it goes.

Then get ready for a different kind of work.

Paul saw the music work ahead and he’s still doing it.

John saw Yoko and they worked on their sound.

George didn’t want to argue anymore.

Ringo stayed steady and on time.

Sleeping baby listened to grandpa humming Let It Be.

It was a Beatles moment.

From the first time I saw them on Ed Sullivan it’s been a Beatles moment.

Now it’s a ‘driving by Beatles Liverpool singing Beatle songs’ moment.

It felt great.