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The
Beatles Story in
Liverpool's Albert Dock has a display arranged into eighteen different
sections following the band's career through from their early years, to
their break up and solo careers. The stage is well set with a section on
the history of skiffle, a style of music which allowed anyone to have a
go. Instruments were largely home made and no formal musical training was
necessary. Cheap guitars, basic drum kits, washboards, and tea chest bases
of the Quarrymen days begin the tour. Then the tour moves into a recreated
Cavern, a dark street in Hamburg, and into a remarkable section where a
powerful speaker system recreates the experience of being in the middle of
Beatlemania. An interior of the Yellow Submarine leads through the final
years, and an audio visual consideration of each Beatle. The Beatles Story
describes not only the story of the group but of a profound cultural
shift. Categories of importance were breaking down. Just as washboards
could be used to make music, so the subjects of music could include
ordinary streets in Liverpool, and zebra crossings in London. Categories
of importance were breaking down, popping bubbles of conceit, as well as
creating a sense of importance in seemingly unpromising places. |
