The Beatles
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Kremlin and Red Square | The USSR prohibited the Beatles from performing in Red Square and banned their music. Eventually, in May 2003, Paul McCartney performed there in front of Putin. see | |
| Lower Valley of the Awash | "Lucy", whose discovery was the justification for inscription of this WHS, "a cquired her name from the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles , which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp all evening after the excavation team's first day of work on the recovery site." (Wiki) | |
| Statue of Liberty | John Lennon posed in front of it in 1974 during the Deportation attempt |
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