Liverpool Institute and Music
Music and musical performances were a constant theme throughout the life of the school and the Mount St. building. Annual school Speech Day concerts (held in the fine acoustics of Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool), choirs, the organ, piano, music classes and the singing of daily devotional hymns have echoed around its walls for 170 years and continue to do so at LIPA:
- Neil Aspinall, 1954-1959: Beatles' road manager, MD of Apple Corp
- Les Chadwick, 1954-1959: member of Gerry & The Pacemakers
- Albert Coates, 1894–1900: Anglo-Russian conductor and composer
- Len Garry, 1954-1959: member of The Quarrymen
- George Harrison, 1954-1959: musician. Left without achieving any formal qualifications in July 1959 for a job as an assistant electrician at Blacklers department store
- Stan Kelly-Bootle 1941-1947: mathematics scholar, folk singer and composer.
- John McCabe, 1950 to 1957: prolific classical music composer
- Sir Paul McCartney, 1953-1960: musician. having taken O and A levels, and deciding not to apply for teacher's training college, in July 1960 left school for the Beatles' first stay in Hamburg.
- Mike McCartney, 1955-1961: musician Mike McGear in The Scaffold
- Sir Charles Santley, British baritone
- Ivan Vaughan, a classics sixth former, 1953 to 1960, who introduced Paul McCartney to John Lennon.
- C.W. (Colin) Manley, 1953 to 1959 and D.M. (Don) Andrew, 1953 to 1959 both became part of The Remo Four, a group later managed by Brian Epstein.
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