BEATLE'S ABOUT (..AND THE BBC THINKS GEORGE HARRISON IS BACK IN LIVERPOOL TOO).Byline: By BRIAN ROBERTS RINGO Starr gives a peace sign yesterday as he proudly returns to his native Liverpool to kick off its year as Europe's Capital of Culture. But to the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. it seems, one Beatle looks much like another. Bizarrely, it told its staff in a memo that George Harrison, who died in 2001, would be performing. Ringo, 67, who hasn't been back for 15 years, said: "I'm from Liverpool, I do feel that - it's in my soul. It's changed so much over the years but the atmosphere of the city doesn't change. It's still here." Last night he performed his new single Liverpool 8, the postcode postcode Noun a system of letters and numbers used to aid the sorting of mail Noun 1. postcode - a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail postal code, ZIP code, ZIP of Toxteth where he grew up, on the roof of St George's Hall. He was joined by former Eurythmics eurythmics or eurhythmics (both: y  rĭth`mĭks) frontman Dave Stewart and 1, 300 other
performers.
Tonight a 700-strong cast, including Echo and the Bunnymen, will appear in The Musical for a 10,600-capacity crowd at the Echo Arena. It is hoped the city's yearlong programme of more than 350 events will attract an extra two million visitors. |
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