Greed Is Not Good!!!

I was listening to the news this morning and actually heard some rather good news … Abbey Road Studios are to be made a Listed Building

This is really good news as it means it will restore an important part of British Music Heritage and will stave off any unscrupulous property developers who wish to exploit the fact that the Beatles recorded there (no doubt some American consortium would have came in waving their bank loan around offering to buy it – sounds familiar doesn’t it?)

But this story genuinely brings a warm glow to my good soul as it’s one in the eye for the rich people of this world who think they can buy anything. Sadly, for them, you can’t buy history (with the exemption of certain Hollywood producers of course)

Anyone who reads this Blog from Liverpool will remember the same fate that was met by The Flying Picket in town as it was sold off to greedy property developers to build luxury flats (which no one moved into).

At the time it was pretty hard to believe that the Picket was closing as it was known the length and breadth of Britain as being one of it’s best underground venues starting off the careers of brilliant Liverpool-based bands the likes of The La’s, The Coral, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Real People and countless others (including myself and the other chaps. Ahem!)

But when we get down to the real nitty gritty of a city’s essential needs, the people ‘at the top’ need to ask themselves a really hard question: does your city need another set of luxury flats (which no fucker can afford anymore) to brighten and broaden your skyline or do your people need a venue that will make music, culture and a sense of community thrive?

I’ll go for the latter if you don’t mind

Mol