If you’ve ever dreamed of creating music on hallowed Beatles ground, you might finally get your chance. Paul McCartney and his brother Mike recently announced The Forthlin Sessions, named for their childhood home (now owned by the National Trust of Great Britain) at 20 Forthlin Road. The program will allow unsigned artists to spend time writing and performing in that Liverpool home — the very spot where John Lennon and Paul McCartney penned some of the Beatles’s early greats, like “I Saw Her Standing There” and “When I’m 64.” Artists selected by Mike will have the chance to use the space as inspiration and a venue.
The Forthlin Sessions is also meant to be reverent to Beatles history; this year marks Paul McCartney’s 80th birthday, 60 years since ‘Love Me Do’ became The Beatles’s first single, and 65 years since Paul and John Lennon first met as teenagers.
