Mersey Beat

Mersey Beat was a music magazine, which was edited by Bill Harry since 1961 and focused on the music scene in the early 1960s in Liverpool. Later the name was used as a synonym for this music scene that was originally called Liverpool Sound or Mersey Sound.

The name of Mersey Beat ( sometimes also written in one word, Merseybeat, ) is a part of the River Mersey ( mɜ: zi) back to the city of Liverpool is, while Beat is available for both the heartbeat as well as the beat of the music.

The late 1950s to Liverpool developed into a second, independent from London center of popular music in England. Basis for this development was the numerous dance halls where lording countless local bands.

The Mersey Beat called ( for bands from Liverpool beside the River Mersey ) also known as Mersey Sound, is like the Brumbeat ( for bands from Birmingham ), etc., beat music be added, so that a pop music genre, which in the early sixties years had formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The typical Mersey Sound had its roots in skiffle, R & B and rock and roll. Among the representatives of this music include the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Searchers, the Merseybeats, Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, Cilla Black, Billy Fury, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Peter & Gordon and the first girl group in the world, The Liver Birds, and many others.

As the main time of the Mersey Sound applies the period 1958-1964, the genre was not until 1963 with the first Beatles single that reached number 1 in the charts, Please Please Me, nationally known and commercially successful. After London again took over sole control of the English music market. But it also later were several well-known bands and musicians from Liverpool, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Others

• Merseybeat is also the name of a BBC television series.
• The Merseybeats were one of the popular bands of the Mersey Sound.