Day Trippers: Beatles fans in Liverpool – photo essay

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A series of photographs by Craig Easton shot between 2016 and 2018 explores the legacy of the Beatles in Liverpool and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the band’s break-up

The Day Trippers series of photographs considers the enormous pull the Beatles still have for fans all over the world and the phenomenal importance of their legacy to the economy of Liverpool, which in 2016 was estimated to deliver £82m a year in tourism and support more than 2,300 jobs in the city.

Visitor numbers were continuing to grow – before the coronavirus pandemic – as the Beatles’ music became increasingly popular in countries such as Brazil and China, alongside the established fan bases in the US and Europe.

Magical Mystery Tour bus passengers gather for a group photograph outside the gates of Strawberry Fields, Liverpool

A group of German tourists dance outside the childhood home of Ringo Starr on Madryn Street

Beatles grafitti on the gates of Strawberry Field, the former Salvation Army children’s home where John Lennon used to play as a child and later immortalised in song

Spanish tourists take a selfie at Mendips, Menlove Avenue, the childhood home of John Lennon; tourists pose in front of the Beatles sculpture on Liverpool waterfront

A Japanese tourist does a Sgt Pepper pose for a photograph by the Magical Mystery Tour bus on Menlove Avenue, Liverpool

Day trippers on the Magical Mystery Tour bus

Tourists pose for photographs outside the Penny Lane barber, Tony Slavin, while three schoolchildren look on in amusement and the Magical Mystery Tour bus heads up to George Harrison’s house

The Magical Mystery Tour bus passes the end of Madryn Street, where Ringo Starr lived as a child; graffiti tributes on the boarded-up house at 9 Madryn Street, Starr’s childhood home

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