Mersey beat

noun

1. 1. the characteristic pop music of the Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s

   2. ( as modifier )

      the Merseybeat years

Example Sentences

Whether he's trying out the family's Kodak Brownie box camera or experimenting with his Rollei Magic camera in later years, Mike's photographs capture the Mersey Beat scene in all its glory.

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In a humorous story for Mersey Beat, he famously claimed that the word had come to him "in a vision—a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'from this day on you are Beatles with an A.'"

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DJ Fresh is an Arsenal fan who grew up idolising Ian Wright, while Adam F is a Liverpool fan who is the nephew of Rory Storm, who was part of the Mersey Beat scene in the 1950s and 60s.

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He created a handmade magazine, “The Daily Howl,” during his elementary school years, and during the first flush of the Beatles’ success in Liverpool, he wrote several articles for a local music magazine, Mersey Beat.

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And, of course, Liverpool also produced the four ingenuous teen-agers whose Mersey beat has circled the world, earned them a group fortune that now stands at $6,000,000 and won them medals from Queen Elizabeth.

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