UB40’s Robin Campbell told BBC Radio WM that he felt Birmingham had not got the recognition it deserved for the music it has produced over the years.<\/p>\n
He said: “It’s been an absolute hub of music, of all types, of all genres – from heavy metal and rock and reggae, but also pop groups – so much music has come out of Birmingham.”<\/p>\n
Black Sabbath’s connection to Birmingham has been compared to Liverpool’s with The Beatles.<\/p>\n
Chris Cannon, who runs guided tours in Liverpool, said the city’s musical heritage supported more than 2,300 jobs.<\/p>\n
Referencing research by the University of Liverpool in 2016, he said The Beatles’ legacy was worth \u00a382m to the city each year.<\/p>\n
“We have got quite a large musical heritage, the same as Birmingham,” he said.<\/p>\n
Asked if Birmingham could support a similar music heritage economy, he said that Liverpool had largely achieved it without council backing and that most of the city’s Beatles tourism was privately owned.<\/p>\n
He added: “It’s taken nearly 30, 40 years for Beatles tourism to take off. But when it first opened nobody was interested in visiting it, but it’s really taken off.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UB40’s Robin Campbell told BBC Radio WM that he felt Birmingham had not got the recognition it deserved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114884251824962711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}