Liverpool Music Heritage Trail celebrates 60 years of key musical moments in the city
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A new music heritage trail linking 12 key Liverpool locations has been launched in the city.
The free, self-guided trail is marked by plaques designed to look like vinyl records and the Beatles Legacy Group, which is behind the new attraction, says it hopes it will inspire a new generation of Liverpool artists as well as music fans and visitors.
Billed ‘a whistlestop tour through 60 years of Liverpool music from 1957 to 2016', the tour aims to explore some of the places, people, stories and sounds embedded in the UNESCO City of Music.
Scannable QR codes on each plaque reveal a short film about each location, and if people can’t visit all the sites in person, they can also take an online tour HERE
The locations were selected to demonstrate the identity that emerged from the city’s maritime heritage and its relationship with music, as grassroots, underground scenes found a place amongst the warehouses and brick-built basements, to create global phenomena.
The whole trail takes around an hour-and-a-half to walk and the 12 ‘stops’ are:
St Paul’s Square, off Old Hall Street – the site of the former Liverpool Stadium: The State in Dale Street: The Lomax in Cumberland Street; the Cavern, Eric’s and Probe Records, all in Mathew Street; NEMS in Whitechapel; The Warehouse in Fleet Street, The Kazimier and Cream in Wolstenholme Square and The Picket and Sink Club in Hardman Street.
The new trail – supported by funding from the Beatles Story, and additional backing from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Liverpool BID - marks the 10th anniversary of the Beatles Legacy Group which was set up in 2016 to enhance and protect the cultural and economic impact of the Fab Four in their home city.
The Farm’s Peter Hooton, Chair of the Beatles Legacy Group, says: “The Liverpool Music Heritage Trail feels like the perfect way to mark 10 years of The Beatles Legacy Group, as it solidifies our purpose to keep music at the heart of this magical city of ours.
“The concept of a music heritage trail came to me when I started doing music tours of the city a few years ago. As I was pointing out venues and record shops that no longer existed, people on the tour would ask me why there was no reference to many of these iconic places that had inspired and shaped our musical and cultural identity.
“I knew I had to try and celebrate them before they were lost in the mists of time.
“The trail celebrates and explores key Beatles’ locations of course, but 10 others take us through a variety of key musical moments."