Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:53
Music Press: The Mersey Beat (1960 - 1964)
The Mersey Beat was a fortnightly newspaper started by Bill Harry and his partner in 1960. The purpose of the broadsheet was to cover the emerging beat scene of the sixties in Liverpool. An early “Gig Guide” the Mersey Beat was full of information about the groups, photographs and who was appearing and where.
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Monday, 06 November 2017 17:48
They Sold A Million - Badfinger BBC documentary
Badfinger were a British rock band that originally consisted of Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, Tom Evans and Joey Molland. The band evolved from an earlier group called The Iveys that was formed in 1961 by Ham, Ron Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales.
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Tuesday, 06 December 2016 14:36
Jimmie Nicol The Forgotten Beatle
Regardless of how talented a musician you are, luck plays an important part in climbing the greasy pole to success in the record business.
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Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:49
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Beatles, The Fab Four, The Mop Tops, John, Paul, George and Ringo, the band that doesn’t need any introduction.
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Monday, 14 December 2015 15:53
The Making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band may or may not still be the “greatest rock album of all time,” but—as the presenter in the documentary above remarks—it most certainly is “an extraordinary mirror of its age.
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Sunday, 17 March 2013 12:51
Pete Best Original Beatle Talks In- depth to ZANI
Pete Best (24th November 1941 Madras, India) is a name that has always been associated with The Beatles, and how his life drastically changed forever on 16th August 1962, when their manager, Brian Epstein, reluctantly fired Best as The Beatles’ drummer.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:56
Sixties Legend Billy J Kramer Talks to ZANI
Do you want to know a secret? Billy J Kramer is back and very soon it will be common knowledge, as he has been busy recording a comeback album, which has spawned a single To Liverpool with Love. A native of Merseyside and now happily residing in New York, yet it seems he has never forgotten his roots, and why should he as he was at the centre of the Merseybeat in the early sixties? Young northern teenagers inspired by American rock ‘n’ roll artists like Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and of course Elvis, making music.
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Sunday, 16 September 2012 14:14
When Bournemouth Welcomed The Beatles
When most people think of Bournemouth on the south coast of England, it is probably as a popular holiday resort: a peaceful place of pleasure gardens, guest houses and golden sands. The town is a wonderful destination for those seeking a bit of summertime rest and refreshment, but during the 1960s,
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:19
Butterfly On A Wheel ZANI The Imprisonment of Richards & Jagger
This is an extract from Simon Wells’ new book on the historic arrest and imprisonment of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1967. “Butterfly On A Wheel” charts the extraordinary timeline of events that ultimately led to two of the Rolling Stones finding themselves behind bars. This act would spark a chain of events that would lead to public outrage, questions in the House of Commons, and the editor of The Times newspaper likening Mick Jagger to a ‘butterfly on a wheel’.
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:05
Revolver- A Classic Beatles' Album
© Words Alan McGee
I was driving to London recently from Wales with my daughter. As is usual these days she was hooked into her i pod world. And while sound splashed into her ears there was silence in the rest of the car as I stared eastward willing London ever closer. She suddenly began to sing.
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A Crafty Cigarette
