The Beatles' Liverpool tour on Help's 60th Anniversary w. Mojo's Ed Glinert
Date: Wed 6 August 2025
Time: 1pm.
Location: Ken Dodd Statue, Lime Street Station.
It was 60 years this day that the Beatles released their second soundtrack LP, Help!, named after 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.
* An 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”.
