• The Merseybeats (sometimes written as The Mersey Beats) are an English band that emerged from the Liverpool Merseybeat scene in the early 1960s, performing...
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  • Merseybeat, or beat music, is a musical genre that originated in Liverpool, England in the 1950s. Merseybeat, Merseybeats, or Mersey Beat may refer to:...
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    at the Cavern Club, and in April that year they became the Merseybeats. With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey sound and Merseybeat were...
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  • Merseybeat is a British television police procedural drama series, created and principally written by Chris Murray, first broadcast on BBC One on 16 July...
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  • John Gustafson (musician) (category The Merseybeats members)
    During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats, Quatermass, Roxy Music, The Pirates and Ian Gillan Band. Born in Liverpool...
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  • was strongly identified with her in the UK public consciousness: she performed the song with the Merseybeats on the 8 August, 1964 episode of Ready Steady...
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  • Tony Crane (musician) (category The Merseybeats members)
    English musician, who is best known as the co-founder of the Merseybeats. Tony has toured with the Merseybeats since its inception in 1961. Crane was...
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  • Billy Kinsley (category The Merseybeats members)
    issued under the same title, as well as a CD featuring new recordings. The Merseybeats (See Merseybeats discography at The Merseybeats) (See Liverpool...
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  • in 1963. It was a hit for The Merseybeats in May 1964, reaching #5 on the British charts. Cash Box described the Merseybeats' version as "a pretty, soft-sounding...
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    been a member of The Merseybeats, the Kinsleys, and Rockin' Horse. (Kinsley would later reunite Rockin' Horse after leaving the Pacemakers and rename...
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    during the band's later years. Originating as a skiffle group, the Beatles quickly embraced 1950s rock and roll and helped pioneer the Merseybeat genre...
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  • name of the Beatles, the club was under the ownership of Ray McFall. The Cavern Club gradually became synonymous with the emerging Merseybeat music genre...
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    Jonathan Kerrigan (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
    including In the Club, Casualty, Heartbeat, Merseybeat, The Five and Reach For The Moon. Films include Diana, FLiM, The Somnambulists ,The Best Possible...
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    The Fourmost are an English Merseybeat band that recorded in the 1960s. Their biggest UK hit single was "A Little Loving" in 1964. Guitarist/vocalist Brian...
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  • in minor roles or as a visitor in Casualty, Merseybeat, Cold Feet, At Home with the Braithwaites, Where the Heart Is, Doctors and Peep Show. He now successfully...
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    of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United...
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  • The Big Three were a Merseybeat group from Liverpool. They are best known for their 1963 recording of "Some Other Guy" and their close connection to The...
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  • Katharine Rogers (category Actors from the London Borough of Croydon)
    well-known British television shows, including EastEnders, Doctors, Casualty, Merseybeat, The Bill and Heartbeat. Katharine Rogers at IMDb v t e v t e...
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    The Searchers are an English Merseybeat group who emerged during the British Invasion of the 1960s. The band's hits include a remake of the Drifters'...
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  • writer and expert on surrealist art The Mekano Set: Alternative Electro Post-Punk collective formed 2007 The Merseybeats Mic Lowry, pop/R&B vocal group who...
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    The Magnificent Moodies. It was a mix of rhythm and blues covers and Laine/Pinder originals, the latter showing more of a Merseybeat influence. The album...
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  • Tony Jackson (singer) (category The Searchers (band) members)
    2003) was a British musician. He was known for being a member of the Merseybeat band The Searchers. Jackson was born in Dingle, Liverpool, Lancashire. After...
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    They were one of the very few female bands on the Merseybeat scene, as well as one of the first all-female rock and roll bands in the world. They took...
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    gov.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2024. McCoid, Sophie (22 February 2016). "Merseybeats bassist Chris Finley has died aged 67". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 6 April...
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  • Christmas Party Album, an album by the British glam rock band Slade The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats Cracker (British TV series),...
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    major influence on vocal surf music, soul and early Merseybeat, including the Beatles. Many of the earliest white rock and roll hits were covers or partial...
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  • manager Britt Woods. In 2001, she played Connie Harper in Merseybeat, and guest starred in the BBC One school drama, Waterloo Road as Lindsey Woodham. From...
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  • With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone...
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    Schenker, the band's rhythm/lead guitarist, launched the band in 1965. At first, the band had Merseybeat influences and Schenker himself handled the vocals...
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    September 1968 and early 1969 the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime. After the break-up with Farthingale,...
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