incalculable

By a series of bizarre coincidences, I passed a couple of places in my city steeped in musical history. The first one, below, is obvious.......

A little further down Penny Lane is the Dovedale Towers. Unless you're in the know, it's a little known fact that a very young Freddie Mercury spent a couple of months in the late 1960s living here whilst fronting a Liverpool band called Ibex. And both Brian May and Roger Taylor were visitors too.

By the way, a happy 63rd birthday to Brian today. Your "May Axe" will see you out, mate!

I walked across town, over Queens Drive, through Calderstones Park to Beaconsfield Road, to pay a visit to Strawberry Field......

Whatever your opinion of the Beatles, it's simply incalculable what the tourist trade in monetary terms has done for Liverpool. They are still our greatest asset and do for my city what Shakespeare's done for Stratford, and what U2 currently do for Dublin.

Don't knock it until you've tried it!