I went to Litherland (North Liverpool) yesterday to photograph the Beatles mural. It's a 45 minute trip up the motorway for me so I was disappointed to see that the weeds on the grassed area in front of the 'With the Beatles' portraits were obscuring John Lennon's eyes. I parked up and went to investigate. I didn't have any gardening gear so I decided to tear out what weeds I could with my bare hands, rather than waste the trip. The passers by (it's very near a supermarket) would doubtless have found my performance entertaining.
The whole mural is amazing but it needs to be better looked after (besides the weeds and the rubbish, some of the paintwork has flaked off and there is a paint splash on Stu Sutcliffe's guitar (it's great that the original guitarist and Pete Best, the drummer before Ringo, are included too).
I will see if I can interest the artists who created the mural in giving it a small amount of restoration. I will happily help if they need it - this is a piece of public art that deserves a spot of TLC.
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| the Litherland Beatles mural |
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| John (from the Hamburg days) |
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| Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best |
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| the 'With the Beatles' album cover portraits |
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| Lennon before I weeded him! | |
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| Rory Storm and Joe Brown topping these bills ahead of The Beatles |
here are 2 videos which describe the origins of the project and show it being created
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3kAXzBkSAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdKE5LRpF84
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