{"id":40055,"date":"2025-08-02T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:30:07","slug":"younger-people-are-finding-the-beatles-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40055\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Younger people are finding The Beatles for themselves&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The director of the Cavern Club, the Liverpool nightclub described as the birthplace of The Beatles, says the venue &#8220;has to focus&#8221; on younger fans ahead of the city&#8217;s annual International Beatleweek later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Keats told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_merseyside\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Merseyside<\/a> &#8220;younger fans luckily are attending the festival more and more every year, which is important&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;That&#8217;s a big thing that we have to focus on and that is happening because younger people are finding The Beatles for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the heart of everything, it&#8217;s about the music, it&#8217;s all the emotions those four musicians left us,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The week-long festival, which celebrates the legacy of the Beatles, begins on 20 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The director of the Cavern Club, the Liverpool nightclub described as the birthplace of The Beatles, says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}