Mae West: In Liverpool

MAE WEST holds her own in Liverpool at the new Hard Days Night.
• • Calling 2008 "the year that Liverpool is Europe's Capital of Culture," The London Telegraph welcomed the new Beatles-themed boutique hotel in the heart of the city, which took more than two decades of planning and debate before it opened.
• • Telegraph reporter Max Davidson gushed a bit, spinning it as a place "that oozes class and sophistication. Like Malmaison properties, it offers gracious 21st-century urban living — — high ceilings, clean surfaces, all the mod cons and gizmos you could ask for — — at a price that is some way short of exorbitant. Enthusiastic staff, mostly with ripe Liverpudlian accents, are a bonus. ... Money can't buy you love, but £650 will buy a night in the Lennon Suite, ..."
• • Though the "location, in a chunky old commercial building in the Cavern Quarter, is uninspiring," wrote Davidson, he found elements to suit him.
• • According to Max Davidson: "Dinner in the Blake's restaurant is good rather than exceptional. The food is modern English with twists (with items such as Knickerbocker Glory, you wonder whether it needed a few more twists). It is another delightfully furnished space, with pride of place occupied by photographs of the celebrities who featured on the iconic Sergeant Pepper cover designed by Sir Peter Blake. What an odd, eclectic assortment they were — — from Jesus to Oscar Wilde, from Jung to Marlon Brando, from Mae West to Aldous Huxley."
• • Davidson explains: "But when you see them displayed like this, properly contextualised, you realise the richness of the cultural roots the Beatles were tapping. They were far, far more than just a group of likely lads from Liverpool."
• • Visit online or phone: The Hard Days Night Hotel [www.harddaysnighthotel.com — — 0151 236 1964].
• • Visit The London Telegraph — — www.telegraph.co.uk/ — — to learn more about Hard Days Night and see the photographs.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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