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Article on The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in The Guardian.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The cabby at Lime Street station looks blank when I ask to be taken to the Institute for Performing Arts. A few seconds later he asks hopefully: "Do you mean the Paul McCartney Centre?" Well, no, actually, but you can understand the confusion. <P>When the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) first opened its doors to students in January 1996, it was Paul McCartney standing on the stage of the Paul McCartney auditorium that grabbed all the headlines. Celebrities don't come any bigger than Macca in Liverpool. It's small wonder, then, that LIPA has been forever branded Paul McCartney's Fame School in the city's consciousness. <P><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4457061,00.html" TARGET=_blank> <B> MORE </B> </A>