Post by yerblues1968 on Apr 22, 2008 20:50:10 GMT -5
There's A Place
February 14, 2008
NorthJersey.com
They didn't live there long, but a flat the Beatles once shared has been posted for sale -- for around $3.4 million in American currency.
Manager Brian Epstein found the top-floor flat in Mayfair to give the Fab Four some privacy from hordes of screaming fans after their second single, "She Loves You," hit the top of the pop charts.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were already far too famous to stay in hotels in between recording sessions and TV appearances. So they moved to Green Street from Liverpool for a few months in the autumn of 1963 -- the only time the group lived together.
A short time later, they conquered America. The top-floor flat has been converted into a 2-bedroom apartment.
The building provided the setting for one of the band's early publicity photographs — a shot of them peering over a bannister -- that was used as the cover for the December 1963 edition of "The Beatles Book." The bannister is still at the top of the building's stairwell, according to the Daily Mail of London.
McCartney recently told the Mail that the group would travel back and forth between London and Liverpool but then work made it too much to keep going back, so they stayed at the Hotel President in Bloomsbury before renting the flat.
McCartney moved in with his then girlfriend Jane Asher's family in Wimpole Street and Lennon rented a flat in Emperor's Gate, Kensington, with his first wife Cynthia, the Mail reports. A few months later, Harrison and Starr moved into a flat in Whaddon Mews, Knightsbridge, where Epstein also had one, it says.
Converted into a two-bedroom apartment, the 968-square-foot property is being sold by Sotheby's.
“The current owner is an American financier who lives in California and inherited the flat from a relative," Sotheby's estate agent Peter Bevan told the Mail. “When the Beatles were there there were three smallish bedrooms and one bathroom. He had it remodelled into a more contemporary layout but doesn't need it any more."
The owner “certainly aware of the Beatles connection and supplied us with the 1963 Beatles Book," Bevan said. "I wouldn't say he was an enthusiast."
Estate agent Pat Bevan says, "The owner is aware of its history, but hasn't turned it into a Beatles shrine or anything like that."
www.northjersey.com/betterliving/news/Beatles_.html
www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/beatles%20london%20home%20for%20sale_1059536
February 14, 2008
NorthJersey.com
They didn't live there long, but a flat the Beatles once shared has been posted for sale -- for around $3.4 million in American currency.
Manager Brian Epstein found the top-floor flat in Mayfair to give the Fab Four some privacy from hordes of screaming fans after their second single, "She Loves You," hit the top of the pop charts.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were already far too famous to stay in hotels in between recording sessions and TV appearances. So they moved to Green Street from Liverpool for a few months in the autumn of 1963 -- the only time the group lived together.
A short time later, they conquered America. The top-floor flat has been converted into a 2-bedroom apartment.
The building provided the setting for one of the band's early publicity photographs — a shot of them peering over a bannister -- that was used as the cover for the December 1963 edition of "The Beatles Book." The bannister is still at the top of the building's stairwell, according to the Daily Mail of London.
McCartney recently told the Mail that the group would travel back and forth between London and Liverpool but then work made it too much to keep going back, so they stayed at the Hotel President in Bloomsbury before renting the flat.
McCartney moved in with his then girlfriend Jane Asher's family in Wimpole Street and Lennon rented a flat in Emperor's Gate, Kensington, with his first wife Cynthia, the Mail reports. A few months later, Harrison and Starr moved into a flat in Whaddon Mews, Knightsbridge, where Epstein also had one, it says.
Converted into a two-bedroom apartment, the 968-square-foot property is being sold by Sotheby's.
“The current owner is an American financier who lives in California and inherited the flat from a relative," Sotheby's estate agent Peter Bevan told the Mail. “When the Beatles were there there were three smallish bedrooms and one bathroom. He had it remodelled into a more contemporary layout but doesn't need it any more."
The owner “certainly aware of the Beatles connection and supplied us with the 1963 Beatles Book," Bevan said. "I wouldn't say he was an enthusiast."
Estate agent Pat Bevan says, "The owner is aware of its history, but hasn't turned it into a Beatles shrine or anything like that."
www.northjersey.com/betterliving/news/Beatles_.html
www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/beatles%20london%20home%20for%20sale_1059536
