Mersey Beat
The Mersey Beat or Mersey Sound or Liverpool Sound is the name for a type of music that came out in the city of Liverpool, England in the early 1960s.
Maybe the first group to be thought of as a part of genre were Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes. The most famous group of this genre were The Beatles. Other important groups include Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers and the female singer Cilla Black.
Other websites[change | change source]
- http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/ Archived 2008-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk/ Archived 2020-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.merseybeatabd.co.uk/ Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Newsreel footage of The Fourmost Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Short news story on Mersey Sound Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
