Economy
50 Years After the Beatles, Liverpool Is Back
England's Detroit has boosted its cultural offerings to become a tourist magnet.
"I’m an Elvis fan," John Lennon once said, "Because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool." Out of Liverpool, in this case, also meant into international super-stardom, and presumably a singer for the Beatles might have left behind any number of places for the career that lay before him.
But fame cut both ways: Lennon also supposedly said that once of the worst parts of celebrity was being unable to have a pint at the Phil, meaning the Philharmonic Pub, a wood-paneled trace of Liverpool’s erstwhile industrial glory.