The Beatles' Liverpool tour for "Help!" at 60 with Mojo's Ed Glinert

Join Ed Glinert (Mojo, Fodor's Rock 'n' Roll Traveller), the UK's most prolific tour guide, to mark the 60th of the classic Beatles LP

It was 60 years this day that the Beatles released their seocnd soundtrack LP, Help !, named atfer one of John Lennon's earliest primal screams.
And what an album! Despite the pointless cover version of Larry Williams' banal 1958 R&B stomper, "Dizzy Miss Lizzie", the excrutiatingly maudlin "Yesterday" and the laughable idea of letting Ringo have a go with the ridiculous "Act Naturally", this is a collection of classic Macca love songs. And what a start. After "Help!" itself gets the juices flowing, there is an immaculate segue into the exuberant "The Night Before" quickly followed by the slowed down yearning "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" - a barely matchable first three for any LP. Another odd note: not once on "Ticket To Ride" does Lennon ever pronounce his "d"s. We mark the anniversary of its release with a guided tour (with appropriate music accompaniment) around the Beatles’ Liverpool haunts:
* The Cavern.
* St George’s Hall.
* The Eleanor Rigby statue.
* The shabby flat where John Lennon dossed.
* Brian Epstein’s rather more comfortable apartment.
* The Inny where George and Paul went to school.
* And of course Ye Cracke pub where we will try and order a “Creme tangerine, Montelimar/Ginger sling with a pineapple heart” for our “coffee desert”.

You may also like the following events from New Manchester Walks:

• This Saturday, 19th July, 02:30 pm, The Bridgewater Canal: Annual Official Celebration Tour in Manchester

Also check out other Workshops in Liverpool.