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paul mccartney’s birthplace
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Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 at Walton Hospital in Liverpool. Paul's mother, Mary, had worked as a nurse in the hospital maternity ward.
The old Walton Hospital was demolished in August 2011, and will reopen in 2013 as a mental health care facility run by the health trust Mersey Care.
john lennon’s birthplace
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John Winston Lennon was born at this location at 6:30 a.m. on October 9, 1940.
Formerly the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Lennon was born during the Nazi Luftwaffe bombing campaigns of the city.
Today, there is a plaque that commemorates his birth.
From Lennon's Book, In His Own Write: "I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madolf Heatlump (who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me."
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Home purchased by Berry Gordy that became the home and studio of Motown Records. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and many other legends graced this studio, which is now a museum.
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Paul McCarney's childhood home is located at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
Built by the local authority, the McCartney family moved into the house in 1955. Paul McCartney bought his father a home in 1965 in the Wirral.
Owned by the National Trust, they market the home as "the birthplace of the Beatles" since their earliest practicing and song-writing occurred here.
Unlike Lennon's home, this location does not a blue plaque from English Heritage because the figure has not ""been dead for 20 years, or passed the centenary of their birth".
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On Jul 25, 1965, Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Dylan had drawn widespread support from fans for his 1963 and 1964 Newport Folk Festival sets with Joan Baez.
In 1965, Dylan was supporting his fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home. The first side of the album was Bob Dylan's signature acoustic folk style; the second side of this album featured a backing band and was rock. When Dylan walked on stage with an electric guitar and a band, the boos started immediately.
The band launched into "Maggie's Farm," and the distaste from the folkies was immediate. Boos and jeering rolled out from the crowd. Pete Seeger wanted to take an axe to the power cables to the set.
The debate still exists whether the audience was angry about the short set or angry that Dylan had betrayed folk and played electric, but the results were the same- they were pissed, and Dylan had gone rock.
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