• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    "laid the foundations" for the Beatles and Merseybeat music. John Lennon reportedly said of Richard that before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing...
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  • English descent and her father is from Nigeria. Dorgu has also appeared in Merseybeat, Loose Women, Casualty (2004), Doctors and Strictly African Dancing. Dorgu...
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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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    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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    Bush with "Wuthering Heights" in 1978). In 1963, Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers became the first act to get their first three hits at number...
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    Herman's Hermits". ClassicBands.com. McCoid, Sophie (22 February 2016). "Merseybeats bassist Chris Finley has died aged 67". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 6 April...
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    googly eyes.[citation needed] Some Gonks had outfits such as those of Merseybeat rockers and were marketed as collectibles. They were popular with children...
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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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  • 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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    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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    the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Merseybeats,...
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  • 1960s. The group consisted of Tony Crane (of The Merseybeats), Clem Curtis (of The Foundations), Mike Pender (of The Searchers), Brian Poole (of The Tremeloes)...
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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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  • 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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  • Leslie Ash (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
    six seasons. She subsequently acted in BBC police drama Merseybeat and the ITV drama Where the Heart Is. In 1996, during her time on Men Behaving Badly...
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  • Whole Life Through", which was featured on the Oriole Records This is Merseybeat compilation album, and the debut single "They Say". "They Say" achieved...
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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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  • 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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