I have wrote a transcript for Paul McDonough’s interview like I will with Franks, my granddads and my friend’s interviews so that I know what I am putting into the timeline when it comes to editing. The transcripts help when it comes to editing because I know what cutaways I am putting in and where about I will be putting them.
When sailors were here really is the big link because lots of people particularly the Irish came over here to work and the sea shanties was the original thing people use to sing in groups and gangs and things to get through the dugery of the day, they use to sing and make themselves happy. I think the origins are there and the link then coming through the centuries particularly the 60s, people often say was the source of records people didn’t have in the country was from the Cunard yanks as they would say which were people who worked on the Cunard line. They brought records back from America for people – people use to haul them as well because then they could only hear things on the radio so the links go back that far.
There are other things other than music in Liverpool of course but you can not deny that there’s a huge pull because The Beatles came from here and their global stamp that they had an impact on the world and the world of music. It’s a huge impact on the city and tourism, its an impact on the economy, the tourist industry. They come to the Cavern, and they do the tours and come to the places they use to live by and do this and that. So its a big economic advantage to have them here and I think it pulls tourists in so initially its music.
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