Abstract
This article offers an analysis of the relationship between city government institutions and popular music through an examination of the discourses, attitudes, and actions of Liverpool's city officials in relation to the Beatles. Focusing on the mid-1960s it presents the first academic analysis of a substantial archive of original correspondence relating to the Beatles which was sent and received by the Lord Mayor's Office in Liverpool. Drawing on this material, it discusses the relationship between popular music and city strategy at a time when institutional thinking about such relations was utterly unformed or embryonic at best. Capturing a particular moment within the social and cultural life of Liverpool, the archive reveals how some city officials and local citizens were registering a nascent realization of the role that popular music could play in a reimagining of the city.
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