Legacy and Influence
According to the book FAB: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes, the school portrayed in the film was a direct inspiration for the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), of which Sir Paul McCartney is the lead patron.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.”
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