The Beatles: Artists invited to design landmark sculpture tribute

A competition has been launched to design a landmark Beatles-inspired artwork outside a venue where the band performed 27 times.

Artists in the Liverpool City Region are being invited to pitch ideas for a sculpture at Tower Ground in New Brighton to celebrate the Wirral town’s links to the Fab Four.

The former Tower Ballroom was the venue where the band staged their most performances – apart from their spiritual home at Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club.

Competition organisers, external‘s vision is for the sculpture, which should be at least two metres (6.5ft) tall, to be viewed from the River Mersey.