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	Mersey sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mersey Sound (also known as the Liverpool Sound and Mersey Beat, and called the English Beat in Continental Europe.) is the name the media gave to the music created by Merseyside groups between 1958 and 1964.
		Although Mersey beat was all the rage in 1964, and still much in evidence in the British charts of 1965, by 1966 it was totally passé, and had given way to the psychedelic rock of the mid 1960s.
		The Mersey Sound, a 1967 anthology of poetry by three Liverpudlian poets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mersey_sound (563 words)

	The 'This Is Mersey Beat' Story - Mersey Beat
		With the emergence of the Beatles, followed by Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers and other Liverpool groups, the media began to talk of 'the Mersey sound' of 'the Liverpool sound.' It was never called Mersey Beat.
		Mersey Beat was a registered name and was copyright since I registered it as a limited company in 1961.
		The sound of radio cab drivers conversing with each other came over the amplifiers, then there was a puzzled gasp 'What's that, Fred!' when the group started to play.
	www.triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/merseybeat-story.shtml (932 words)

	Merseybeat - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The newspaper was called Mersey Beat and contained an article by a local beat group musician by the name of John Lennon, entitled "being a short diversion on the dubious origin of Beatles".
		This vein of cheeky scouse humour was a distinguishing characteristic of the Mersey groups, and particularly of The Beatles.
		Such was the devotion of local Liverpool fans to their 'own' sound (and groups) that 100 youths barricaded themselves in the Cavern as a protest against its closure in February 1966.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /music/merseybeat.htm (775 words)

	About This Site
		This was particularly true in Britain where the "Mersey Sound" led by The Beatles and others, would ensure that British popular music would have a far-reaching influence on the rest of the world.
		The term "Brum Beat" or "Brumbeat" originated in the early 1960s in the wake of the famous "Mersey Sound", later incorrectly described as "Mersey Beat" that came out of Liverpool and was spearheaded by such well known groups as The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
		The Mersey sound was sweeping all over the country by early 1963, and Cliff Richard & The Shadows producer Norrie Paramore of EMI Records, went up to Birmingham (Brum) in order to audition local talent to sign up.
	www.brumbeat.net /oview.htm (705 words)

	About Merseybeat
		One thing to remember, when these recordings where produced, the sophisticated studio equipment in use today was not available and most recordings were made from 1 or 2 ‘takes’, playing and singing at the same time, this must be kept in mind when listening to the music.
		Mersey Beat was first published in 1960 by Bill Harry and his girlfriend (now wife) Virginia.
		Because of what was happening to the music scene on Merseyside in the early 60’s and the lack of information available, Bill decided to set up his own fortnightly newspaper, devoted completely to the music of Merseyside, a kind of ‘What’s On’ of the musical events over the coming fortnight.
	www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk /html/about_merseybeat.html (277 words)

	merseybeat _ mr and mrs merseybeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, most people who descended on Liverpool during the heyday of the Mersey Sound made a beeline for the Mersey Beat offices — musicians, agents, managers, TV directors, record producers, journalists, poets, celebrities — and we did all we could to promote the city, taking them round and making them feel at home.
		Considering that Epstein had only discovered the local scene through Mersey Beat and that fact that it was me who’d arranged for him to go to the Cavern and see the Beatles for the first time, it seemed he was now acting like a Jekyll and Hyde character, trying to intimidate us.
		Her part in the Mersey Beat story has never really been acknowledged in the many books and articles that have appeared about the scene after the heyday of the Mersey Sound was over.
	www.merseybeatabd.co.uk /merseybeat.htm (2108 words)

	James Callahan
		was inspired by the sounds of the early 60's Liverpool/Mersey scene, which I was studying, during the recording sessions.
		I tried to mix the Mersey artists stylization's with similar Baltimore Rock and Roll sounds from the same era (a la "The Buddy Dean Show" - most people are familiar with this from the John Water's film "Hair Spray").
		Mersey Beat was the name of the paper, so to call the sound Mersey Beat is an anachronism.
	www.solitairemusic.net /jim.htm (1050 words)

	Re: Merseyside
		The major bus terminal in town also originates in Pier Head; and on one side of the square was the nearly-open Mersey, at this point an expanse of water that stretched across to the Wirral, where Mr.
		Liverpool was the town from which the Beatles came forth, but their sound was Mersey Beat.
		It's definitely Marsden's vision---a statement of personal affection for his home town---yet notice that the direction of his "ferry 'cross the Mersey" is toward the city from another place...from the posh side of the world (the Birkenhead penninsula) and by extension its outer reaches, "back to the egg", as one might put it.
	www.recmusicbeatles.com /public/files/saki/mersey (1110 words)

	Sixties City - Mersey Beat - A Brief Musical History Tour
		The truth is that the emergence of the Liverpool sound that was to become known as 'Merseybeat' was virtually down to one man - his name was Bob Wooler.
		The Mersey Sound grew from a musical craze that was sweeping across the country and had converts in Liverpool too.
		As the sound spread outwards along the 'A' roads of the UK, bands in other cities heard and reacted to the call and the nation began a love affair with not only Liverpool's 'Fab Four' but also the musicial heritage that came with them and other Liverpool acts.
	www.tonmachine.velnet.com /merseybeat.htm (855 words)

	Rock And Pop Shop
		The Beatles were strongly featured from the very first issue and used to drop into the Mersey Beat office to help out, answering the phone, typing - with John Lennon contributing a column.
		Mersey Beat Founder, Bill Harry, started the publication 1961 and now, in 2006, he is behind the launch of Rock and Pop Shop an innovative new website specialising in rock and pop memorabilia which has been four years in the planning by a team with extensive experience in the field of popular music.
		Rock and Pop Shop now brings you the opportunity to own some of the most original and iconic images of the 60's when the Mersey Beat sound changed the World.
	www.rockandpopshop.com /products.php (161 words)

	The Mersey Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems by Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri first published in 1967, when it launched the poets into "considerable acclaim and critical fame".
		The Mersey Sound is number 10 in a series of slim paperbacks originally published in the 1960s by Penguin in a series called Penguin Modern Poets.
		The three poets in The Mersey Sound paved the way for later performance and "people's" poets, such as John Cooper Clark, Benjamin Zephaniah, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Attila the Stockbroker, John Hegley and others who "have pursued the goal of creating poetry for a wide audience".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mersey_Sound (1507 words)

	PBS - Austin City Limits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the Beatles and the Mersey sound first crossed the Atlantic, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyer and Johnny Perez saw their chance to break out the rough, Chicano-influenced rock they had been playing around San Antonio.
		As with The Sir Douglas Quintet, the mainstay of his sound is the incessant neh-neh-neh-neh of a nasal Farfisa organ played by Kris Cummings.
		Carrasco works all his songs around the sound and rhythm of the organ.
	www.pbs.org /klru/austin/artists/program375.html (460 words)

	The University of Mersey Sound - Jose McLaughlin - Mersey Beat
		My best friend lived near the Litherland Town Hall and we used to go and watch in amazement as a never ending procession of cool looking guys used to arrive in Bedford and Commer vans and unload their guitars and drums.
		Saturday nights were usually spent standing outside the Orrel Park Ballroom trying to catch the driving sounds of groups like the Undertakers or Faron's Flamingos (and in particular Trevor Morais' drumming).
		Again I would come across the name the Beatles in the window of the record store underneath the OPB, copies of their record with Tony Sheridan were proudly on display.
	triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/universityofmerseysound.shtml (417 words)

	British Invasion: Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mersey sound had become quite popular in Britain, and it was those who had been the pioneers of it who first followed the Beatles' footsteps.
		The other main Mersey group was the Searchers, formed in 1961 in Liverpool and performing as well at the Cavern before becoming the house band at the Iron Door.
		In April of 1964, two months after the Beatles' performance and one after Gerry and the Pacemakers', they performed on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and released their big American release, "Needles and Pins." The Liverpool sound was now famous, composed mainly of a lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_of_rock/22549 (560 words)

	Merseybeat - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And it was with Merseybeat (or the Mersey Sound, as it was originally known) that our world-leading position essentially began.
		The scene that grew up around the Cavern Club on Liverpool’s Mathew Street was to influence the sound of British, and to some extent American, pop for years to come.
		May also be termed the Mersey 'Era' (1958 to 1964) as not all performers were from Liverpool e.g.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/merseybeat (256 words)

	Amazon.com: Gerry Cross the Mersey: All the Hits of Gerry & the Pacemakers: Music: Gerry & the Pacemakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Where is the video to Ferry Cross the Mersey probably the key video that portrays this band and Liverpool from the early 60's.
		Gerry and the Pacemakers took the sweet Mersey Sound and brought it to its fullest depth and richness.
		Overshadowed by the Beatles, many Mersey groups never really got their due...Gerry and the Pacemakers was recognized but not nearly as much as they deserved.
	www.amazon.com /Gerry-Cross-Mersey-Hits-Pacemakers/dp/B000002Z9J (687 words)

	The History of Rock Music - The beginnings
		When the Liverpool bands replaced the instruments of skiffle with drums, bass and electric guitar, skiffle mutated into a new genre, that was renamed "Mersey sound" (or "Merseybeat") in 1963 (Mersey being Liverpool's river).
		The success of the Mersey Sound and of the girl-groups altered the panorama of pop music, forcing even the most conservative teen-idols to adopt a more lively style.
		The sound of Honky Tonk Women (1969) and Brown Sugar (1971) was the classic of the classics, exuberant and irreverent, visceral and incendiary, the ultimate bacchanal on Earth, while Sticky Fingers (1971) sounded like a pensive analysis of their blues roots and of their demonic mission.
	www.scaruffi.com /history/cpt14.html (2774 words)

	From the Mississippi to the Mersey
		Nobody accessing this web-site should be surprised at the back-drop of those two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Mersey.
		These are the voices of local Black musicians, past and present, and the music they made, whose influence on Mersey Beat has not just been ignored but to a large degree erased totally from the musical culture of Liverpool.
		Quite simply, the basic harmonic structure that the Beatles and other local bands employed was firmly rooted in the traditions of fl acappella/R'n'B. Furthermore, the sounds that sprang from the city in the early Sixties, Mersey-Sound, were predominantly cover versions of Black R'n'B artists, who had either gained little or no release in the UK.
	www.geocities.com /soulpooluk (536 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In an ever changing and volatile industry, MERSEY SOUND PRODUCTIONS has established itself as a leader in its field.
		The management and staff of MERSEY SOUND PRODUCTIONS have over 25 years experience in the audiovisual and production industry, The company has established a reputation and have accrued awards for excellence in professionalism and outstanding service as well as competitive pricing.
		It has always been important to us to develop partnerships with our clients, as we strongly believe that long-term relationships are the foundation for our company's future.
	www.merseysound.co.za /profile.htm (147 words)

	The Mojos
		Originally called The Nomads, they recorded a track for the ‘This Is Mersey Beat’ LP then discovered a London group had registered the name so changed it to The Mojos.
		While appearing at the Star Club, Hamburg, they recorded what is now considered one of the classics of the ‘Mersey Sound’, ‘Everythings Alright’ which entered the UK Top 10 charts.
		The next two releases were less distinguished and prompted Stu James to say, “We made our name in Liverpool as Blues specialists but were persuaded to do all sorts of lightweight pop stuff.
	www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk /html/the_mojos.html (152 words)

	Liverpool Gets Tate Branch - New York Times
		LEAD: TWENTY years ago the Beatles enlivened the world with their exuberant Mersey sound, born and bred in the northern England port of Liverpool.
		TWENTY years ago the Beatles enlivened the world with their exuberant Mersey sound, born and bred in the northern England port of Liverpool.
		The five stately brick blocks on the Mersey River provided over a million square feet of storage for incoming ships heavily laden with tobacco, sugar, wool, wines and, in particular, cotton from Confederate North America.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3D7163CF931A15756C0A96E948260&sec=travel&pagewanted=print (1219 words)

	Sixties City - The Story of Mersey Beat
		Presented here, in his own words, is the definitive story of one of the Sixties' seminal music newspapers - providing a fascinating and unique personal insight into the early days of the 'British Beat Boom' and the events, personalities, facts and legend surrounding the birth of the greatest musical revolution the world has ever known.
		was the founder of the Liverpool music paper which chronicled the groups and venues responsible for the 'Mersey Sound', the publication which was to give its name to the Sixties phenomenon and musical era that has since become almost universally known as 'Mersey Beat'.
		With John and Stuart also being in a group, together with Paul and George from Liverpool Institute next door to the art school, I was more and more intrigued by this exciting sound which didn’t seem to get much airplay on BBC radio.
	www.sixtiescity.co.uk /Mbeat/mb1.htm (782 words)

	All-Info About Poetry - Adrian Henri (1932-2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is most widely remembered for the role he played in 'Mersey Sound', a title given to Penguin Modern Poets 10 (1967), a highly popular paperback compilation of his (and his fellow poets) work, which went through an unprecedented two revisions (1974 & 1983), and continues to sell up to the present day.
		He was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool shortly before his death and received an honorary degree from the city's university.
		He was the oldest of the three Mersey beat poets and the only one of the trio who remained in Liverpool.
	poetry.allinfo-about.com /features/adrian-henri.html (509 words)

	Rico Bell
		Merging the country tinge that has infected The Mekons since 1985's Fear and Whiskey (the band's defining post-punk album) with hard-edged folk-rock approach (like the Byrds crossbred with the Pogues), Dark Side of the Mersey confirms that nearly anything crawling from the wreckage in camp Mekon is worth a serious listen.
		Bell joined the band in the mid-1980s, around the time the British miners' strike of 1984 was inspiring a resurgence in political rock.
		It's an observation that wouldn't sound out of place on a Mekons record, especially in the musical setting of raw, punky folk-rock, heavy beats and sudden rhythmic left turns.
	www.mekons.de /rico1.htm (1743 words)

	SA-CD.net - The Searchers: The Collection
		The sound quality is far superior to the now OOP collection on the Rhino label, more transparent and detailed.
		For those of you who don't remember the Searchers, they were a Mersey sound band (like the early Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas), etc. who also pioneered the use of the 12 string electric-according to the liner notes, they were a major influence on Roger McGuinn and the Byrds.
		There are times that they do sound like the Beatles in 63 and 64.
	www.sa-cd.net /showreviews/1685 (291 words)

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