Beat music, a musical genre also known as the Mersey Sound or Merseybeat, which refers to the unique creative rock music scene in Liverpool, England, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The area around Liverpool is known as Merseyside because the River Mersey flows through the area to the Irish Sea. Thus the Mersey Sound of rock music referred to hundreds of rock bands, with some of the more famous being Jerry and the Pacemakers (singers of "Ferry 'cross the Mersey," a reference to the River Mersey), the BlueJeans, Searchers, and eventually the Beatles.
Merseybeat "changed rock music forever." (Scaruffi.com/history, "History of Rock Music.") Mersey Sound took the work of Chuck Berry, the Big Bopper, Elvis Presley and other Americans and endowed it with a new driving power.
With other influences, this led to British rock music of the 1960s (Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, Yardbirds, the Kinks, the Animals, Led Zeppelin, many others) which found worldwide popularity and influence, and helped determine the course of pop or rock music for the remainder of the twentieth century.
Featuring Merseybeat acts The Beatles, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Gerry and the Pacemakers and The Searchers. Broadcast 18 September 1998.
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The New Mersey Sound!
A series using family trees compiled by music journalist Pete Frame to explore the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. Fifteen years after the original Mersey beat sound, Liverpool again became the breeding ground for many top bands, and they all started out in a damp basement club called Eric's. The bands include Echo and the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, OMD, the Lightning Seeds and the KLF.
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