Mersey beat

British

noun

1. the characteristic pop music of the Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s
2. ( as modifier )
  
  the Merseybeat years

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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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