{"id":635415,"date":"2026-05-10T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:22:08","slug":"piece-of-the-beatles-history-to-be-sold-off-for-scrap-after-no-interest-to-re-home-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635415\/","title":{"rendered":"Piece of The Beatles history to be sold off for scrap after “no interest” to re-home it"},"content":{"rendered":"

A piece of\u00a0The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 local history in Liverpool looks set to be sold off for scrap after nobody came forward to re-home it.<\/p>\n

The mast of the ship the Salvor, used on the Mersey docks for decades, was used as the backdrop to the first ever official photograph of the Fab Four after\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a>\u00a0joined in 1962.<\/p>\n

It stayed at a central spot in Liverpool city centre for several decades after the photo, near the iconic Liver Buildings, but\u00a0in 2020, it was\u00a0moved due to roadworks and now faces the threat of being broken up and sold off as spare metal after Liverpool City Council said it had not been able to find any new home for it.<\/p>\n

The Council had previously said it had been open to offers for the mast, and\u00a0some local campaigners, including former\u00a0Liverpool Echo\u00a0reporter Peter Elson, are working to find it a new home, but as it\u00a0stands\u00a0no suitable\u00a0option\u00a0has come forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a no-brainer that a massive piece of Beatles memorabilia like that should be saved, yet they were going to sell it for scrap,\u201d Elson has said. \u201cYou would think that they would have learned after that whole own goal with the Cavern and Ringo\u2019s house in Madryn Street, which they were going to demolish until a campaign was launched to save it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2026 is a busy year for the two living Beatles \u2013\u00a0Paul McCartney<\/a>\u00a0will release his new album \u2018The Boys Of Dungeon Lane<\/a>\u2019 on May 29 (pre-order here<\/a>), while\u00a0Starr also released his 22nd solo album \u2018Long\u00a0Long\u00a0Road\u2019 last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former includes a duet between the two former bandmates\u00a0on \u2018Home To Us<\/a>\u2019, a nostalgic reflection on their Liverpool roots that marks their first ever vocal collaboration. It also features Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Pretenders<\/a>\u2019\u00a0Chrissie Hynde<\/a>, and you can check it out\u00a0above.<\/p>\n

\u2018Long Long Road\u2019, meanwhile saw Ringo joined by St. Vincent<\/a>,\u00a0Sheryl Crow<\/a> and Billy Strings and was produced by T-Bone Burnett. He recently spoke to\u00a0NME\u00a0about the record<\/a>\u00a0and the guest features.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone on there brings something different because they\u2019re all great players and singers. They\u2019re great musicians who have been at it a while, and they all came through T Bone. In my eyes, he\u2019s never made a mistake on my records,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sam Mendes\u2019 quartet of big screen biopics of The Beatles are also on their way<\/a>, with each film taking on the perspective of a different member of the band. Set for release in April 2028, they will see Paul Mescal<\/a>\u00a0play McCartney, Harris Dickinson as\u00a0John Lennon<\/a>, Joseph Quinn as\u00a0George Harrison<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Barry Keoghan<\/a>\u00a0as Starr.<\/p>\n

Steven Soderbergh, meanwhile, is working on a Lennon documentary, John Lennon: The Last Interview, which he has revealed includes the use of generative AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A piece of\u00a0The Beatles\u2019 local history in Liverpool looks set to be sold off for scrap after nobody…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,1740],"class_list":["post-635415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}