What is 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 (band)|The Searchers]] and the female [[singer]] [[Cilla Black]]. ==Other websites== *http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409222849/http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/ |date=2008-04-09 }} *http://www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827091147/http://www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk/ |date=2020-08-27 }} *http://www.merseybeatabd.co.uk/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008220732/http://www.merseybeatabd.co.uk/ |date=2007-10-08 }} *[http://www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?Search.x=0&Search.y=0&searchword=fourmost Newsreel footage of The Fourmost] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224244/http://www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?Search.x=0&Search.y=0&searchword=fourmost |date=2007-09-30 }} *[http://www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?Search.x=0&Search.y=0&searchword=cavern+mersey+sound Short news story on Mersey Sound] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224133/http://www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?Search.x=0&Search.y=0&searchword=cavern+mersey+sound |date=2007-09-30 }} {{music-stub}} [[Category:Music genres]] [[Category:Musical groups from Liverpool]]