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From: Patrick Hernan 
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Subject: Re: Help save a Beatles tradition
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LetsbuildIraq! wrote:

> richardporter4{at}aol.com (Richard Porter) wrote in message
news:...
> 
>>End of an Era at Abbey Road Studios? 
>>
>>It seems the tradition of Beatles fans writing messages on the
>>perimeter wall of Abbey Road Studios may be coming to an end. The wall
>>was painted over recently by a professional anti-graffiti company and
>>any time graffiti appears there since it is painted over straight
>>away.
>>
>>Westminster Council, the local authority for the area has a new policy
>>to clear graffiti from the borough and has either its own
>>anti-graffiti team or employs an outside contractor, to daily clean
>>graffiti.
>>
>>Beatles fans have been writing on the wall for years and with the
>>support of Abbey Road Studios.  The tradition was started by former
>>Studio Manager Ken Townsend when he made a remark to a journalist that
>>he didn't mind people writing on the wall. Neighbours of the Studios
>>wrote to say what a nice idea it was.
>>
>>There has even been 'official' graffiti in the past -- when 'Beatles
>>1' came out the '1' design on the CD's  front cover on the gateposts.
>>Also when Paul McCartney's CD 'Flaming Pie' came out his publicist
>>Geoff Baker spray painted the album logo all over the wall.
>>
>>It is a great shame if this tradition has come to an end. Fans from
>>all over the world have been writing on the walls for year. I have
>>been bringing fans to the studios for 15 years and always stop to read
>>the messages on the wall.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> The wall that borders Graceland in Memphis Tennesee, current burial
> site and former home to one Elvis Aaron Presley is covered with
> Graffiti too.  Priscilla, Elvis' former wife,  pitched a ***** about
> it and wanted it stopped. When the city council found out they
> convinced her it was great for the tourist trade and any bad words, 4
> letter kind or other type, would be removed immediately. She caved in
> and it has been allowed ever since.
> 
>  Of course the English aren't big on preserving newer tpe history
> unless it was once used by their preserved but useless royalty. They
> can be unbelievably short-sighted. The tore down the biggest tourist
> draw in Northern England - commonly referred to as the Cavern Club and
> replaced it with a gaudy looking strip type mall building that now
> stands on the former site.
> 
> A building that the Beatles played live in from the days of the
> Quarrymen to their eventual world fame. Somewhere around 300
> performances. Now they sell the  remains - one brick at a time on
> Ebay. People buy em too. Over $100.00 for a friggin brick and
> certificate.

This is hardly the only important rock site lost to the wrecking ball. 
The Crawdaddy Club in The Richmond Station Hotel, 1 Kew Rd, Richmond, 
was demolished. The site is now the Bull and Bush Pub, and there is a 
plaque over the door:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/6912/london.html

It was the site of the first Rolling Stones concerts and was also the 
site of the first meeting of the Beatles and Stones. Later that evening 
they went to the apartment shared by Mick, Keith, and Brian Jones at 102 
Edith Grove. That building still stands but without a blue English 
Heritage plaque.


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