Starr's childhood home slated for demolition
FILE - This Jan. 11, 2008 file photo shows former Beatles member Ringo Starr in Liverpool, England. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art will display Ringo Starr's gold-plated snare drum in a special exhibition honoring the ex-Beatle's 70th birthday. The museum said Tuesday, June 29, 2010, the drum will be shown from July 7, Starr's birthday, through December. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File) Credit: AP Photo/Jon Super
The homes where John Lennon and Paul McCartney grew up are intact tourist attractions owned by Britain's National Trust. But the house where Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was born and spent part of his childhood is slated for demolition.
The boarded-up row house at 9 Madryn St. in Liverpool, where Starr, nee Richard Starkey, was born on July 7, 1940, is part of a depressed area set to be bulldozed for new housing, according to British media reports.
Beatles fans, who fought off a 2005 attempt at demolition, are up in arms. Of a suggestion to move part of the house to a museum, one Beatles tour guide said, "If the council in Stratford wanted to knock down Shakespeare's birthplace and move it . . . there would be outrage."
Locals say a new development could incorporate it, and Starr, 70, has opposed plans to flatten the house.
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