Liverpool May Destroy Beatles Birthplace
. Longtime Beatle tour guide Philip Coppell said: "What the council is proposing to do is nothing short of criminal and they will be convicted in the court of international public opinion if they go ahead with it. If the council in Stratford wanted to knock down Shakespeare's birthplace and move it to the NEC, there would be outrage. The only difference between the two is that Shakespeare has a 400-year head start on the Beatles." In response to a government proposal to move the home, Coppell said, "If they move it to the museum, it will lose the sense of the area where it stands. Seeing it in a museum is just not going to have the same impact as visiting the street where Ringo was born. Ringo Starr lived in other houses, but he was only born in one. If it's knocked-down � even if it is moved � fans all over the world are going to be up in arms. They will just not understand how Liverpool can carry-out this kind of cultural vandalism." - more on this story
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