Waxing lyrical as ‘The Beatles’ meet their makers
The stars of the ultimate Fab Four tribute show head for the resort which helped make the lads famous.
There may be four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, but there are eight ‘Beatles’ in Blackpool.
Well, that’s if you don’t count the ‘other’ tribute acts. Four of them can be found on permanent display at Tussauds, Blackpool, just opposite Morecambe and Wise, and with Ab Fab to the right. It’s one of the most popular displays there because it’s interactive, encouraging visitors to stop and pose on the Abbey Road zebra crossing. Only this time visitors were being halted in their tracks by the sight of not four but eight Beatles on the road.
The waxworks had been joined by a band hailed as the next best thing by Let It Be critics across the world - and about to prove it in Blackpool at the Grand Theatre (March 28 to April 2). And the lads fronting the show which has become an international sensation certainly caused more than a few double takes from visitors at the seafront attraction - and again on the Comedy Carpet as the four posed in their Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band outfits.. not far, incidentally, from where Sir Peter Blake, the artist who created the (rightly) iconic cover.
Source: Blackpool Gazette
