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Paul McCartney’s Liverpool home at 20 Forthlin Road is set to become a songwriting location for unsigned artists. The plan is to open up the house, where he lived between 1955 and stardom in the early Sixties, as an inspiration for musicians. The Forthlin Sessions is being run by McCartney’s brother Mike, in conjunction with music journalist Pete Paphides and the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), and will be up and running by the time Macca turns 80 on June 18. Mike says: “We’re inviting young people to this house and giving them the opportunity of doing the same as us, coming from nothing and seeing where it takes them.”