• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Joanna Taylor (category Actors from the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    has since starred in BBC One police drama, Merseybeat as PC Jackie Brown. In 2004, Taylor appeared in the American film Post Impact with Dean Cain. In...
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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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  • 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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  • 1968 song by The Merseybeats, under the pseudonym Crackers "It Happens All the Time", a 2014 song by Tyler Shaw "It Happens All the Time", a song by Squirrel...
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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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  • 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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  • explore before rival Merseybeat. In 2005, Johnathan Young took over as executive producer. The serial format was dropped and The Bill returned to stand-alone...
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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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