Why ours is the real Beatles hotel

Mar 26 2007 by Mike Chapple, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL'S soon-to-open Hard Day’s Night hotel won’t be the first Beatles-themed establishment to open, as Mike Chapple discovered on a trip to Blackpool

Lennon was haunted by childhood Blackpool experience

LIKE many other Liverpudlians Blackpool was a favourite childhood holiday haunt for all of the Beatles - except perhaps for the young John Lennon.
 
John was already living with his mother's sister (Aunt) Mimi, after his parents Freddie and Julia had split up when his father unexpectedly turned up after months at sea asking if he could take his son to Blackpool.
 
While there he asked the five year old if he wanted to emigrate with him to New Zealand at  which point Julia turned up and demanded that John return with her. John  opted for  Fred's  option. As his mother left, however, John changed his mind and ran after her down the road.
 
But on returning  to Liverpool,  she promptly put him back in Mimi's care. John didn't see his Dad again for another two decades.
 
How much of an effect this traumatic Blackpool experience had on his personality is hard to quantify but a clue can be found in his song Julia written 23 years later.

It includes the telling line: "Mother you left me, but I never left you."