What happened to the Beatles ? Peace, love… this is how Richard Porter begins, when he begins his tour of London in the footsteps of the Beatles. Porter has spent the last 21 years traveling with the fans of the band all those emblematic places that have been engraved in the memory of all Abbey Road, Savile Row , Marylebone train station, etc. Richard says that interest in the Beatles has kept that tour alive year after year and that many of the people who make the tours weren’t even born when Lenon was killed.
The Abbey Road junction has become a tourist attraction. It is a normal street, however, it is estimated that it receives about 125,000 visitors a year. But if you finally decide to visit not only London and discover those parts of the world where they were, the truth is that you have a long way to go. For example, you will have to travel to Rishikesh , India. There they decided to go to study transcendental meditation.
Another must see is Montreal . John and Yoko headed to Canada, where they stayed in Suite 1742. There they continued their second week for peace in bed. There, on June 1, 1969, they recorded " Give Peace a Chance ". Forty years later, the hotel still celebrates this anniversary as a great annual event. The suite has been renovated several times.
Liverpool is celebrated on Beatles Day and International Beatle Week. Celebrations include parades, souvenir auctions, walking tours, and concerts at the Cavern Club . This original of the club (where the band played more than 300 times), was demolished in the early 1970s and the building we see today is a replica, built using the original bricks.
Nor should you miss sites like:
– Royal Albert Hall , London
– Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany
– Hotel Hilton Amsterdam , The Netherlands
– Candlestick Park , San Francisco