“Alright Adolf la?”: Did Hitler really live in Liverpool?
More likely than you think… But not by much.
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Magical Mystery Tour: the time portal in the middle of Liverpool
“Let me take you down, ‘cos I’m going too… Bold Street?!”
John Cale will perform ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ live in New York and Liverpool
Velvet Underground bassist/violaist John Cale performed a moody, arty solo take on his band’s already moody and arty debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico,…
Echo and the Bunnymen rock Liverpool on BBC 2’s ‘Pop Carnival,’ 1982
In the summer of 1982, Echo and the Bunnymen were the top act (at least in retrospect, if not at the time) to play the…
The Happy Hooker goes to Liverpool: Xaviera Hollander’s warped cover of the Beatles’ ‘Michelle’
In the years following the success of her memoir The Happy Hooker and the launch of its film franchise, Xaviera Hollander dabbled fairly widely in…
Blank slate: Hundreds of ‘White Albums’ take up residence in LIverpool art gallery
Dismissing claims by critics that the Beatles’ sole LP from 1968 would have worked better had the songs been curated into a tighter, single-disc release,…
Liverpool Poet Roger McGough: Reads ‘Blazing Fruit or The Poet as Entertainer’
Roger McGough reads “Blazing Fruit or The Poet as Entertainer,” and talks to critic Michael Billington about his approach to writing poetry. McGough came to…
‘Blue Monday’ is 30 years old today: So let’s listen to Liverpool’s Double Echo instead
Image from Double Echo’s Phantomime release Even though the hugely influential single was released 30 years ago today, and as much as I love it,…
‘No One Cares’: Short documentary on the regeneration of Liverpool in the 1960s
It’s a myth still perpetuated by lazy BBC producers and bourgeois Guardianista’s that the 1960s in Britain was a golden decade of freedom, wealth, happiness…
Liverpool’s Beatles actually from Manchester according to Fox News
‘Manchester’s famous mopheads.’ Okay, you assholes, keep your filthy hands off my rock and roll!