If you can't make it to Liverpool on your next trip to England but you're a Beatles fan, there are plenty of places in and around London where you can pick up the trail of the Fab Four.
A new book called "The Beatles' London: A Guide to 467 Beatles Sites in and around London," published by the Northampton-based Interlink Publishing Group, shows you where they performed and recorded, where they lived, where they filmed movies, press pictures and album covers, and even where they ate, partied and married. The band members lived and worked in the city beginning in 1963.
Places where the group performed included the London Palladium, 7-8 Argyll Street, and the Prince Of Wales Theatre, 31 Coventry St., where the audience for one gig included the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. In 1963 they briefly lived together at 57 Green St., until fans outside became such a nuisance that they had to leave, and they conducted the business side of their enterprise in various locations, included Apple headquarters at 3 Savile Row.
Most of their recordings were made at the famous Abbey Road Studios, 3 Abbey Road, but it was in a basement at 57 Wimpole St. where Paul McCartney and John Lennon once sat at a piano and wrote "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in 1963.
(Agencies via China Daily March 28, 2009)
