A Beatlemaniac’s tour of Liverpool

To immerse themselves in the history and music of the Beatles, The Globe’s David Filipov and his son Alex visited the city where the Fab Four began. Liverpool, a once-declining shipping city, has a revamped city center with a glistening pedestrian zone. It may not always have embraced the band that may have been its greatest export, but the city has changed its mind along with its mien.

In the Filipovs’ room in the Hard Days Night Hotel, George, John, Ringo, and Paul watched from the wall in an illustration based on the “Beatles for Sale’’ album cover. Alex stood on one of the beds and posed like a fifth Beatle. The hotel opened in 2008. <br>
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Rooms from $141; packages that combine tours and tickets for The Beatles Story exhibit from $180, www.harddaysnighthotel.com.

Matthew Street, where the restored Cavern beckons like a beacon in the night.<br>
<br>The legendary Beatles venue, The Cavern, which had been paved over and replaced by a parking lot, has been excavated, renovated, and reopened as a living museum with live music.

Mendips, where John was raised by his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. John used to climb a tree not far from the house, from which he could check out the girls at the Strawberry Fields orphanage. Aunt Mimi would tell him to stop or else he would be hanged for his peeping. Hence the lyric “nothing to get hung about’’ in the song.

The Empress Pub on High Park Street was featured on Ringo Starr’s 1970 debut solo album, “Sentimental Journey.’’ The pub is near where Starr was born in Dingle, Liverpool.

The Beatles Story is the centerpiece of Liverpool’s renewed Beatles infatuation. The museum is part of Albert Dock, Liverpool’s restored waterfront on the River Mersey. In videos, pictures, artifacts, and music, each section of The Beatles Story tells a chapter of the band’s history.<br>
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Open daily except Dec. 25-26. Adult $20, children ages 5-16 $11, www.beatlesstory.com.

In The Beatles Story museum, a re-creation of The Cavern, with the band’s guitars and drums set up just as the group stood on stage — Paul, George, John, left to right, with Ringo in the back.

A room in The Beatles Story museum modeled after one in John Lennon’s home in Ascot. “This is Not Here’’ was the slogan Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, put on a sign outside the house.

The church graveyard where lies the real Eleanor Rigby — with her husband. Rigby’s grave is third from left.<br>
<br>“Turns out she was not the lonely people at all,’’ Alex brooded.