A new studio album filled with music from icons of the 60s Merseybeat scene features the last song ever recorded by Gerry Marsden. 'Original 60s Merseybeat Legends' was launched by singer ...

It's an unlikely amalgamation of sounds -- half Merseybeat, half "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" -- and it's a testament to Simian's ingenuity that the album doesn't come off as a novelty ...

The two albums they subsequently released may as well have been by a new wave band from the period. By this time, Echo & the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes and their contemporaries were fashioning a new ...

On Merseyside, The Pool of Life' was written by Gary Murphy, and was part of the recording sessions for Gerry's final album, which also features a string of other famous Merseybeat names.

We became a four-piece called The Merseybeats and John Lennon said, ‘I like your new name.’ “The Beatles took us under their wings; they advised us about songs we should do and we appeared ...

The Merseybeats band, formed by Mike Pender and John McNally in 1957, have been playing with line-up changes continuously for 68 years since they became established as contemporaries of The Beatles.