Brow Beat is following the Beatles in “real time,” 50 years later, from their first chart-topper to their final rooftop concert. 50 years ago this month, The Beatles played their first “Mersey Beat ...

For a while, Gerry & the Pacemakers were the Beatles’ main Liverpool rival in terms of popularity with fans and in sweaty clubs like the Cavern. But for the band – singer/guitarist Gerry Marsden, ...

WITH writers like John Lennon, Brian Epstein and Cilla Black, Bill Harry was a lucky editor. Now he is preparing to relaunch the legendary Mersey Beat.> ONCE there was a meeting of four dreamers in ...

My sister Cathy and I attended the 2013 Norwalk Oyster Festival, as we have for the past 10 + years because of the band Mersey Beat. Mersey Beat plays all the music we love, the music we grew up with, ...

Sixty years – almost to the day – since The Beatles took to a Leeds stage for the last time, a mini festival in the city this weekend aims to keep alive memories of the Fab Four and the Beat group ...

IT was 50 years ago . . . this month. Merseyside’s music-loving teenagers were beginning to move to a new beat – and one man wanted to spread the good news. And so Mersey Beat, Bill Harry’s incredibly ...

UNOFFICIAL Ooralea 1250m course record holder Mersey Beat has returned north to his old stomping ground for a crack at tomorrow's rich Mackay Newmarket (1250m). Mersey Beat set Mackay racing alight ...

Four lads from Liverpool, England, get together to play music. They spend a decade as the resident band at the world-famous Cavern Club in their hometown. It sounds like the beginning of a familiar ...

Episode one in the new series of Mersey Beat (BBC1) was called Love Is Not Love. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds..." one of the characters quoted. Having gone all Clint ...

Much of industrial Britain was blighted in the 1980s and 1990s, but in Liverpool, and across the Mersey in and around Birkenhead, the blight was harsher, the desperation more acute, than just about ...