{"id":38965,"date":"2024-02-06T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38965"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:22:33","slug":"save-britains-heritage-calls-for-all-four-beatles-birthplaces-to-be-celebrated-with-group-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38965","title":{"rendered":"SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage calls for all four Beatles\u2019 birthplaces to be celebrated with \u2018group listing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage has submitted listing applications and written to the Secretary of State for Culture to call for official recognition of all four Beatles\u2019 birthplaces in honour of the buildings\u2019 importance to the band\u2019s story and the nation\u2019s cultural heritage.<\/h3>\n
image for illustration: The Beatles<\/a> by EMI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u2026\u2019 With a Little Help From Our Friends\u2019\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

SAVE writes:<\/p>\n

The Beatles, best-selling musicians of all time, topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic last month with\u00a0Now and Then<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a staggering 60 years after their first single was released and 54 since their last UK No1.<\/p>\n

This achievement \u2013 which set a record for the longest gap between UK number ones by any musical act \u2013 prompted SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage to reprise its efforts for all four birthplaces to be listed.<\/p>\n

We have submitted fresh applications for the two houses and a maternity hospital in Liverpool which were the birthplaces of, respectively, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. (Paul McCartney\u2019s birthplace, Walton Hospital, is already listed, but for its Victorian architecture, not its Beatles connection.)<\/p>\n

With a Little Help From Our Friends, SAVE is arguing that the four landmarks should be listed for their \u201cgroup significance\u201d as tangible reminders of where it all began.<\/p>\n

Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage, said: \u201cThe Beatles are regarded as the most influential band in the history of global popular music. These buildings are a key part of their individual and collective story and every year people travel from all over the world to see them. Yet there is no official recognition that this is where it all started. We think it\u2019s high time that changed. Our message to the government is: let these buildings into your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan Brown, the Liverpool planning and tourism expert who prepared the listing applications for SAVE, said: \u201cGlobally, the Fab Four are as synonymous with England as they are with Liverpool, with some tourism websites summarising our country as the \u2018birthplace of Shakespeare and the Beatles\u2019. With their remarkable return to the charts, SAVE is renewing its call that the birthplaces of all four Beatles now be listed in recognition of their outstanding and enduring historic, cultural and artistic interest. We would like this to happen rapidly, in part so the remaining band members and families can further appreciate the respect and affection in which they are held locally, nationally and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

SAVE\u2019s three listing applications are for:<\/p>\n