the cavern club is where the beatles performed in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but he's an expert on the history of pop music. so well matthew since here is the whale famous cover which still attracts millions of tourists every year still thriving because industry. my my real musical life started over the road in a club called attics which is where which is the center of the punk scene in liverpool i saw many famous bands such as the clash joy division. all appropriate. amount of visitors start arriving before lunch for their taste of the fab four. that. feels even all the time later the people still massively important to the liverpool economy last year because it was with over eighty million to the city eighty million pounds in the city over to half thousand jobs where response but credits to the beatles industry. lots of bands play here as cover bands for famously the arctic monkeys played here as well famous star now here. it is tatty now as it was in the sixty's. a hard day's night hotel is a more elegant tribute to th

george and ringo also known as my favorite band the beatles they started off gigging in the local cavern club which is still open to this day and we'll take you there in a moment but let's also find out what other tourist attractions make this city well worth a visit. to the beatles may have put liverpool on the map but there isn't lots more to the city. huge draw for visitors is the historical point complex which includes the famous royal albert don't. know where houses are being converted into hotels apartments and restaurants. but the main attraction remains the beatles even more than half a century after they left liverpool. the cavern companies where the beatles performed in nearly nine hundred sixty. kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but he's an expert on the history of pop new. so what i'm up to see here is the whale famous cover which still attracts millions of soloists every year still thriving because industry but my my real musical life started over the road in a club called attics which is where which was the center of the punk scene in liverpool i saw many famous bands such

as he prepared to tour, warming up with some surprise shows, including this one, at liverpool's cavern clubes played this club almost 300 times, and while mccartney's fans know every word to "hey jude," "yesterday," and "band on the run," we were surprised who didn't-- >> mccartney: when i'm doing shows, i listen to a lot of music, beatles music, wings music, to see what ones we're going to do. and to learn them. >> alfonsi: yeah. what do you mean, you've forgotten them? >> mccartney: yeah. >> alfonsi: really? >> mccartney: there's too many. too many words. ( laughs ) too many notes. they're very hard. i mean, you know, it's not like they're all three chords. >> ♪ i'll pretend that i'm kissing the lips i am missing ♪ >> alfonsi: mccartney is at least a co-author of rock and roll's constitution. >> ♪ maybe i'm amazed at the way you-- >> alfonsi: credited with a stunning 29 number-one hits-- >> ♪ you write me when i'm wrong >> mccartney's work has been covered by icons from almost every musical genre. >> ♪ you and me-- >> alfonsi: famously, john lennon and paul mccartney became songwriting pa