Ordinary with gold dust

That was a pair of glasses that John wore once.

This was Paul’s cigarette lighter for a couple of weeks in 1962.

That necklace was George’s and this bed linen was slept on by Ringo.

It’s funny how everyday ordinary items would be overlooked or even tossed out if they didn’t have this brush with greatness.

Now they’re museum items and probably worth thousands of pounds (one museum artefact was a toilet from John Lennon’s old house and it sold in an auction for a thousand pounds!).

It’s typical of the Beatles journey.

The Abbey Road crossing location is so commonplace I walked past it twice looking for it.

Penny Lane is far from glamorous and there’s not even a sign on the main road telling you where Strawberry fields is.

I think it goes to show the magic of the Beatles that they could take something so ordinary, sprinkle their gold dust on it and make it a tourist site for 60 years and counting.

Their fame was so powerful that the merest association with it made the place/item noteworthy.