A Beatles fan has turned George Harrison’s childhood home into an Airbnb and “living museum”.Ken Lambert bought the property at 25 Upton Green in the suburb of Speke, Liverpool last November for around £171,000. According to the listing, Harrison lived at the three-bedroom house between 1949 and 1962.
The house was also used as a practice space for The Beatles, then known as The Quarrymen.
But now the property has become “a living museum by letting people stay overnight” with the new landlord confirming that a weekly tour group also stops by and spends about half an hour in the home drinking tea and playing music.(NME)
Meanwhile Sir Paul McCartney and his brother Mike are opening the doors of their childhood home to undiscovered musicians to write, perform and gain inspiration.
20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool is where Sir Paul and John Lennon wrote hits such as I Saw Her Standing There and When I'm 64.
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The house which is now owned by the National Trust will be home to The Forthlin Sessions, where artists picked by Mike McCartney and local partners will have the opportunity to write music and play in the exact same spot as the Fab Four. (Skynews)
Sir Paul's younger brother Mike McCartney, who will help to choose the selected musicians, said: "I hope some of the magic rubs off on them."
The National Trust took over the property 30 years ago and used pictures taken by photographer Mike to return it to exactly the way it looked when The Beatles' star grew up there, complete with mismatched wallpaper and patched carpet.
Mike McCartney said: "I was 12 when my mum died and my dad had to bring up two boys so the house was in a sorry state.
"If you had a bath you were joined by the ceiling, because all the paint would flake down.
"The armchair springs stuck out and ripped our clothes to shreds." (ITV com)
Mike describes the house as proof that "from nothing, you can create something special".
He said: "I'm proud of my family and the outcome of that house for all of us.
"If that can be shared with anybody, particularly young people, particularly if they have got nothing and they come there and see they can do something from nothing like we did, then I will be even prouder."
Despite the decor, Mike described the family's former home as a "special house", where their father gave the boys instruments because he saw music as a way out of poverty.
Mike, who went on to perform in The Scaffold, was given a drum kit, which came "off the back of a lorry", and a banjo while Sir Paul was given a guitar and began inviting his friend, Lennon, round to create music.
Mike said: "You could hear them crafting the songs. I would be in another room and would hear them composing.
"Our kid would play music all round the house, including in the bathroom."
