"A hard day's night" or "Let it be" are already ringing in our mental ears without us having to do anything. "Yesterday", "Penny Lane" and "Help!" follow. One earworm after the next.
Today we are going to the Beatles Museum. "The Beatles Story" they call it. And we do it again: we go in with expectations. We want to have the same feeling we remember from the Abba Museum in Stockholm. We want to glide through the museum, hear funny, interesting, profound and above all musical stories everywhere, accompanied by music and preferably live Beatlemania all day long.
Unfortunately, not so in this museum. An audio guide leads us through the exhibition. Far too long texts, far too little music (actually, none at all for the first 3/4!), super much information that sounds as if someone were reading me a CV or a letter of motivation for my very first job.
Photos, old newspaper clippings, a bit of recreated clubs. And while we sit in the venerable "The Covern", again only talk. When will we finally get that music swinging feeling we're hoping for?
Ah, now, in the bright yellow submarine, "The yellow submarine" is playing and we later learn (as we watch some Beatles reports at home) that there are and were rights disputes about every single song.
The end of the show is a bit more musical, but it feels like only John Lennon is being honoured here, the other 3 mushroom heads definitely come up short proportionately.
After a good hour we are back in the harbour, get into our Felix, leave Liverpool and I pick out a Beatles playlist. At least here we are now in Beatles fever.
In the evening, we are standing on a long beach south of Liverpool, and while we are cooking, one Beatles documentary after the other is playing on our mobile mini-TV. We learn much more exciting things here, much more about the other side of the glamour and, above all, we listen to more music!
Because one thing remains: the unforgettable music.
Merci for "travelling with us
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