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It's high summer and once more tourists are making the pilgrimage to meet Walter Smith in his Liverpool city centre workshop. But the visitors, who come from all over the world, aren’t necessarily there to purchase one of his finely crafted bespoke suits. Instead they come to see the man who suited and booted The Beatles.

The unassuming 79-year-old has crafted thousands of bespoke suits from his city centre workshop, but none  more famous than the ones worn by the Fab Four. When Brian Epstein, owner of the NEMS music store, walked into the shop one day in the summer of 1962, Walter had no reason to attach any particular significance to the visit. After all, he and his brother Clive were both very well-turned out and so were regular customers of Walter’s.

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Source: Liverpool Echo

FAMOUS Surrey residents are featured in a reworking of British pop artist Sir Peter Blake’s most famous piece of work – the picture adorning one of the most well-known albums of all time. Sir Peter took inspiration from his cover designed for The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to create a new piece of artwork celebrating the British cultural icons of his lifetime.

Ripley-born rocker Eric Clapton, Weybridge artist Gavin Turk, Woking-born cookery expert Delia Smith, and former Surbiton County Grammar School pupil, photographer Martin Parr, are all featured on the updated 1967 work. The artist selected people who have inspired his creative career over the past six decades to mark his 80th birthday celebrations being held at fashion designer Wayne Hemingway’s Vintage Festival on July 13-15.

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The home where George Harrison, a former member of The Beatles, grew up is blooming with summer flowers after local organisations joined forces to give the home and surrounding area a facelift.

The guitarist’s childhood home, 25 Upton Green in Speke, received special treatment last week after staff from South Liverpool Homes (SLH), Liverpool City Council’s Neighbourhood Team and McDonald’s Restaurants worked tirelessly to plant flowers around the green which is a popular tourist spot for Beatles’ fans. All 22 homes on the green were given planters filled with begonias and pansies to put in the front of their homes as part of McDonald’s ‘Love where you live’ campaign. They also painted railings and BT boxes in the green that were in need of some attention.

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A previously unseen video clip of Paul and Linda McCartney paying a visit to the construction site of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) in 1992 was revealed to Beatles Examiner on July 21 by Dean Johnson, one of the authors of “The Beatles and Me.”

The 48-second clip shows McCartney looking over the site and chatting with sound recording student John Lunt, who, according to Johnson, discovered the tape again just last week. McCartney poses happily for the camera and refers to Lunt as “John with the hairy mic!” before reaching out to hold the soundman’s boom cover. He then says goodbye and acknowledges everyone in the area with waves while clenching his fist.

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Source: The Examiner

Photo Credit: YouTube/John Lunt