HARD DAYs NIGHT HOTEL

The 110-bedroom Hard Day's Night hotel is the ultimate homage to the Fab Four and their music.The concept of the Beatles-themed hotel has been developed with the help of the team behind the Cavern, including Bill Heckle of Cavern City Tours.Starting at the lowest level, the plans link the basement of the North John Street site, via a tunnel, right into the Cavern Club. Each floor is dedicated to a phase in the Beatles' lives, chronologically from their births to their solo careers and the untimely deaths of John and George.Every room will tell a different part of the Beatles story. Each will be uniquely decorated centering around the large paintings created by famous Beatles artiste, SHANNON, who could end up in the Guinness Book of Records for the number of canvasses she will have completed by the time the hotel opens. Shannon was given the name. "The World's Greatest Beatles Artist" from the Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1998, a title coined by Bill Heckle.The works are created at home in America (New Jersey), scanned (New York City), and the originals are flown over to Liverpool where they are kept in a vault until it is time to move them into the hotel. Some can take only three days to complete, but a 6ft painting of John Lennon with a macaw on his shoulder - entitled And Your Bird Can Sing - took the artist six weeks. Other fall in between the two timelines.She said: "Every room will have a painting which will reflect the theme of that room. Every painting has its story...some even have hidden messages in them."I tend to have 10 canvasses on the go at one time and I do it one colour at a time. You don't enjoy it as much as if you're watching each one growing, but it's the only way to complete it in such a short time. Most artist are happy in life with a few paintings a year. This is most different, by far.""It's not just the art work itself, it's a lot to do with knowing exactly what was going on in the Beatles' lives at the time. "It's nine or 10 years since I first chatted to Bill Heckle about the hotel. Now everybody is very excited about it. It just seems to be the right time."The Hard Day's Night hotel has two suites, with the John Lennon suite on the fourth floor coming complete with a white grand piano.Each floor is linked by a New York-style cage lift, with a glass wall revealing the story of The Beatles in images around the grand, granite pillared sandstone stairwell.One in 10 of the rooms is be fully accessible for disabled visitors. Guests will enter the hotel through a marble entrance hall and past full-size statues of John, Paul, George and Ringo in the niches on the outside. John's, on the corner of Mathew Street, faces in the direction of New York.It has two restaurants,a cock-tail bar, lounge, souvenir shop, gallery and three rooms for private entertaining or conferences.There is a Yellow Submarine-shaped jukebox, one of only a small number in existence.The hotel will also be licensed for weddings."When people walk into the hotel they get a unique experience. I recently heard someone say The Beatles were no ordinary group and this hotel is no ordinary hotel."