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 ...

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 ...