The next Beatles? Free spaces give bands a break and boost UK music industry

• Liverpool rehearsal rooms first of national network• Plan is part of job creation scheme for young peopleIn 1962 a little-known Liverpool band called the Beatles played a St Patrick's "Rock Gala" night at the Knotty Ash Hall on the outskirts of Liverpool. Yesterday the same community centre that gave Liverpool's best-known export one of its first breaks declared its ambition to produce the city's next big thing, with the opening of the first of a national network of free rehearsal ...

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