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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Rising to fame as part of the Merseybeat scene in Liverpool during the early Sixties, The Searchers enjoyed hits with songs such as their Jackie DeShannon cover “When You Walk in the Room”, an ...