‘Let it be’ online: Liverpool’s Beatles MA returns

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Beatles enthusiasts and scholars around the world will soon be able to ‘come together’ to study the Fab Four, as the University of Liverpool’s Masters course returns as an online programme.

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00:00the beetles may have split more than 50 years ago but their influence shows no signs of fading

00:06their music put liverpool on the map and today the city still thrives on its most famous sons

00:11with beetles tourism alone worth millions of pounds a year heritage and tourism is such a big

00:17part of liverpool's economy its culture its music identity its purpose as a unesco city of music

00:26that it's really important to understand how everything evolved and more importantly where

00:30everything is going now an online master's course from the university of liverpool will explore the

00:36band's legacy far beyond music dr holly tesla is the program director of the course it is not a

00:44beetles pub quiz or you know we don't sit around and talk about our favorite albums or anything like

00:49that the beetles heritage is so important to liverpool but it's important we get it right

00:54nobody wants to see it become a tacky beetle city kind of shiny neon lights and tacky opportunities

01:01so i mean it's such an incredible story we need to manage it properly and manage it for 21st century

01:06audiences launching in september 2026 the part-time ma the beetles heritage and culture will examine

01:14the enduring cultural and economic impact of the band on liverpool and the surrounding city region

01:21it's important to understand that this is an advanced degree and what we do is we look at the

01:26beetles and the city of liverpool and heritage and culture as a template for what people could do who

01:32want to work in this industry elsewhere so if they come from a different part of the world what they

01:36could do is take this degree and then apply it students will consider how their legacy continues to

01:42impact areas such as urban planning and regeneration civic design heritage and the tourism and leisure

01:49industries as well as the music and creative industries too cara studied the original beetles

01:55ma after studying here for her undergraduate degree really made me open my eyes as to why the beetles are

02:01still so popular today and still so relevant and actually learned a lot about them that i didn't

02:05already know um obviously because this was like a lot of history 60 years worth of history so obviously i

02:11wouldn't know everything so it's just really just trying to expand what i already know about the beetles and

02:16sort of how i interpreted this and how it's interpreted by new audiences as well if you go

02:22down to the pier head and stand by the statues any time of day or night there are people there taking

02:27photos laying stuff down playing songs and it just it's a great place to see just how significant the

02:33beetles still are just so many different people from all countries around the world as well

02:38the city's global identity is so closely entwined with the beetles it's incredible that four lads from

02:43liverpool continue to have such a massive influence even decades after their dissolution if you tried to

02:50make it into a hollywood film nobody would believe it that you know four you know unassuming people

02:55from poor but honest liverpool could go on to be the biggest group in the world

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