Paul McCartney (Photo: Live4ever Media)
The childhood homes of Beatles legends Paul McCartney and John Lennon have been given a Grade II heritage listing, which marks them out as ‘nationally important and of special interest’.
The two buildings in Liverpool – 251 Menlove Avenue, where Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mimi and lived from the ages of 5 to 22, and 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton where McCartney’s family moved when he was 13 – have both been recognised for their significance in the modern cultural history of the UK.
After the pair first met as teenagers in 1957 when John’s skiffle group The Quarrymen played at a garden fete in the Woolton area of Liverpool, the infamous Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership, now the most successful in modern music, began to blossom in the two houses.
Many tracks were worked on by the two musicians in one or both of the houses, with one The Beatles’ most popular early tracks, ‘Please Please Me‘, being composed in Menlove Avenue.