To spend time in 20 Forthlin Road, the small brick row house in the
Liverpool suburb of Allerton where Paul McCartney lived from age 13
until two years or so after he became a Beatle, is to know both far more
about him -- and far less -- than all the records, photographs, books,
and interviews can ever convey.
The two-floor house is tiny, and dowdy in that lower-middle-class
British way that Americans have a hard time wrapping their heads around
-- where are the radiators? where is the shower? -- and for anyone with
even a smattering of knowledge about McCartney's history, being in this
place, with this particular Northern light shining palely through the
parlor window, feels almost embarrassingly intimate, and unbearably
poignant.
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