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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Beat music (redirect from Merseybeat)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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David Bowie (redirect from Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
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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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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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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Gerry and the Pacemakers were a British beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene. In common with the Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were...
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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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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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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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Herman's Hermits (redirect from Herman and The Hermits)
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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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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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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The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford. The Searchers may also refer to: The Searchers (band), a 1960s Merseybeat music group...
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Mike Pender (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
Poole (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes), Clem Curtis (The Tornados), Tony Crane (The Merseybeats) and Reg Presley (The Troggs). With the Searchers continuing...
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the band as a Merseybeat-type group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns further north, in east Lancashire. Nash left the...
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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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songwriting credit as "B. Mann - N. Sherman" the "wild gypsy brass band version" of "One Way Ticket (To The Blues)" Brazilian, translation by Fred Jorge...
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Haydn Gwynne (category Alumni of the University of Nottingham)
television roles included Peak Practice (1999–2000), Merseybeat (2001–2002), and playing Camilla in The Windsors from 2016 until her death in 2023. Haydn...
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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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