It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical; cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At times the group was negatively associated with sex and drugs images surrounding rock music: deemed unacceptable by the city fathers; and unworthy of their support. Liverpudlian musicians believe that the musical legacy of the Beatles can be a burden; especially when the British music industry continues to brand the latest (white) male group to emerge from Liverpool as rsquo;the next Beatlesrsquo;. Furthermore; Liverpudlians of perhaps differing ethnicities find images of rsquo;four white boys with guitars and drumsrsquo; not only problematic in a rsquo;musical rootsrsquo; sense; but for them culturally devoid of meaning and musically generic. The musical and cultural legacy of the Beatles remains complex. In a post-industrial setting in which both popular and traditional heritage tourism have emerged as providers of regular employment on Merseyside; major players in what might be described as a Beatles music tourism industry have constructed new interpretations of the past and placed these in such an order as to re-confirm; re-create and re-work the city as a symbolic place that both authentically and contextually represents the Beatles.
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