The Beatles in the early 1960s, a fifteen-foot-high image in HMV, Liverpool OneWalking through Liverpool One I saw this astonishing image of the Beatles in (I guess) about 1964 walking through somewhere that looks like Liverpool. The overlap of time and place I found fascinating; to their left are three-storey Georgian houses whilst behind George on the right is a modern concrete-pebble wall and a low railing; I find this juxtaposition of old and new in one photograph - connected by the Beatles with all those connotations of modernity - beautiful. And now Liverpool One is reflected in the windows of the image , a further layering of time and place, a vision of the city two of them did not live to see and none of them understand; the city trades on them mercilessly but has moved forward without them.
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