Which Liverpool group was named after a John Wayne film?
"Ethan Wayne John Ethan Wayne (born February 22, 1962) is an American actor. The son of actor John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar Pallete, he grew up in Newport Beach, California, where he shared his father's love of the ocean and outdoors. His name was chosen in direct relation to John Wayne's character in ""The Searchers"" (""Ethan Edwards""). He played Little Jake, the grandson of his father's title character in ""Big Jake"". Ethan started doing stunt work after the death of his father in 1979. His first film was ""The Blues Brothers"". He then went back to work as"
"for the second group from Liverpool, after The Beatles, to have a hit in the US when their ""Needles and Pins"" and The Swinging Blue Jeans' ""Hippy Hippy Shake"" both reached the Hot 100 on 7 March 1964. Founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender, the band took their name from the 1956 John Ford western film ""The Searchers"". The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally in 1957, with his friends Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (bass – born Anthony West, in 1938, Waterloo, Liverpool, Lancashire"
"Cavern Club. Many sea shanties specifically refer to Liverpool, such as ""Heave Away"", ""Liverpool Judies"", and ""Maggie May"", which was later performed by The Beatles. In the 1960s, the city was home to the development of the Merseybeat style of pop music, popularised by artists including Gerry & The Pacemakers. However, even before Merseybeat Liverpool had successful acts such as Frankie Vaughan, Lita Roza and Billy Fury. In the late 1970s/early 1980s, Echo & the Bunnymen, A Flock of Seagulls, Teardrop Explodes, the Mighty Wah!, OMD, China Crisis, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Dead or Alive emerged. 1990s bands that"
"Liverpool on 2 February 2008, and another at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on 3 February 2008. The group remains particularly popular in France and Japan. Two compilations have been issued: ""Longshot For Your Love"" (Marina, 1998) and ""Something On My Mind"" (Crépuscule, 2013), the latter with a bonus live CD recorded in 1982. The Pale Fountains The Pale Fountains were an English band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head (vocalist/guitarist), Chris McCaffery (bassist), Thomas Whelan (drummer) and former Dislocation Dance trumpeter Andy Diagram (horns). Inspired by 1960s music such as Love, Burt Bacharach and"
"under drainpipe trousers. Cultural impact of the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as ""Beatlemania"", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles' continued commercial and critical"
"Liverpool Wall of Fame The Liverpool Wall of Fame on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, in front of the Cavern Club is a litany of, and a tribute to, the groups which played at the original Cavern Club, including acts from the city which have reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. The wall also features a disc for every Liverpool musical act that had a number one hit. It was unveiled on 14 March 2001 by Lita Roza, whose song ""(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"" was the first Liverpool based act's song to reach number one"
"Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire died 7 February 2001). Scragg's death from lung cancer in February 2001 ended all final attempts to relive former days. The Dennisons The Dennisons were an English Merseybeat band, that emerged from the Liverpool scene in the early 1960s. Despite their background, and a couple of minor hit singles, they failed to achieve more than a local following and were unable to find a footing on the British Invasion. However, in 1963, Bob Wooler stated that ""The Dennisons have created the biggest impact in Liverpool since the Beatles"". The band's drummer, Clive Hornby, later became the actor"
"The Beatles at The Cavern Club The Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool was the venue where the Beatles' (formerly known as the Quarrymen) UK popularity started. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best were first seen by Brian Epstein at the club. Epstein eventually became their manager, going on to secure them a record contract. Best was replaced by Ringo Starr on 16 August 1962, which upset many Beatles fans. After taunts of, ""Pete forever, Ringo never!"", one agitated fan headbutted Harrison in the club. The Cavern Club was the third club managed by Alan"
"Mathew Street Mathew Street is a street in Liverpool, England, notable as the location of the Cavern Club, where The Beatles played on numerous occasions in their early career. It is the centre of the Mathew Street Festival, which fills the streets of Liverpool every summer. Mathew Street is visited by thousands of tourists a year, who visit the Cavern Club and many surrounding attractions including a statue of John Lennon, a Beatles store and several pubs formerly frequented by The Beatles. A wall in Mathew Street is adorned by a sculpture by Arthur Dooley entitled ""Four Lads Who Shook"
"Liverpool Five The Liverpool Five were a beat group that was part of the British Invasion-era of the 1960s. The five members of the band came to the United States by way of Japan in 1965. Formed in England in 1963 as the Steve Laine Combo, the group comprised Steve Laine (lead vocals), Ken Cox (guitar and vocals), Dave Burgess (bass and vocals), Ron Henley (keyboards, sax and vocals) and Jimmy May (drums and vocals). Despite the name, none of the group members were from Liverpool; all were Londoners except Burgess, who hailed from Cumbria. The group played in many"
"starred with the Beatles in the film ""Help!"". ""Rigby"" came from the name of a store in Bristol, ""Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers"", which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time, Jane Asher, act in ""The Happiest Days of Your Life"". He recalled in 1984, ""I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. 'Eleanor Rigby' sounded natural."" It has been pointed out that the graveyard of St Peter's Church in Liverpool, where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met at the Woolton Village garden fete in the afternoon of"
"Hillsborough Families Support Group. Liverpool featured in the film ""The 51st State"" (also known as ""Formula 51""), in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United. The club was featured in a children's television show called ""Scully""; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to gain a trial match with Liverpool. The show featured prominent Liverpool players of the time such as Kenny Dalglish. Since the establishment of the club in 1892, 45 players have been club"
"The Mindbenders The Mindbenders were an English beat group from Manchester, England. Originally the backing group for Wayne Fontana, they were one of several acts that were successful in the mid-1960s British Invasion of the US charts, achieving major chart hits with ""Game of Love"" (a number-one single with Fontana) in 1965 and ""A Groovy Kind of Love"" in 1966. Wayne Fontana founded the band in 1963 with Bob Lang, Ric Rothwell, and Eric Stewart. The group was later joined by Grahame Foote. The name of the group was inspired by the title of a 1963 UK feature film, starring"
"wife-to-be, Virginia Sowry, at the club. Harry, Lennon, Sutcliffe and Rod Murray saw the poet Royston Ellis at Liverpool University in June 1960. Having been disappointed with Ellis' performance, Harry proposed the idea that they should call the assembled quartet of friends the Dissenters, and make Liverpool famous: Sutcliffe and Murray with their paintings, Harry's writing and Lennon's music. A fellow student, John Ashcroft, introduced Harry to rock 'n' roll records, and the members of Rory Storm & the Hurricanes and Cass & the Cassanovas. Harry carried notebooks with him, collecting information about the local groups, once writing to the"
"sold more singles in the UK than any other act. In 2008, the group topped ""Billboard"" magazine's list of the all-time most successful artists; , they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty. They have received seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. They were also collectively included in ""Time"" magazine's compilation of . In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing"
"River Mersey would burst its banks and flood the city of Liverpool. This is somewhat similar to the mating story. An all female rock group from Liverpool called The Liverbirds was active in the 60s. They moved to Hamburg in 1964, where they were billed as ""die weiblichen Beatles"" (the female Beatles). During the 1970s, ""The Liver Birds"" was the name of a popular British sitcom dealing with two young women in Liverpool, a play on the British slang term ""bird"" meaning a young woman. The crest of Sir Paul McCartney is a calling liver bird holding a guitar, in"
"The Vikings (British band) The Vikings, also known as Keith Powell & the Vikings or Carl Wayne & the Vikings, were an English rock group from Birmingham, notable for including at various times Carl Wayne, Chris 'Ace' Kefford and Bev Bevan, who would later become founders of The Move. The Vikings started as a skiffle group in the Nechells district of Birmingham in the spring of 1957, formed by Terry Wallace and his friends George Jenkins, John ""Bango"" Badrick,Allan Compton and Terry Smith, with their first gig being at the local Cromwell Street Working Men's Club. They released three singles"
"the name Casey Jones, worked as a disc jockey in Löhnberg, and recorded a solo album, ""Casey's Rock 'n' Roll Show"". In the 1990s, he formed a new version of Casey Jones and the Governors to play the oldies circuit in Germany, and in 2006 was reported to be living in Unna near Dortmund. Brian Casser Brian Casser (born 21 March 1936, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) is a British singer and guitarist. He led the first notable beat group in Liverpool, Cass & the Cassanovas, who were early rivals of The Beatles in the city. He later led another group, Casey Jones"
"referred to was actually a pop art poster by Guy Peellaert. The original group named ""Frankie Goes to Hollywood"" dates from 1980. The nucleus of the group emerged from the late 1970s Liverpool punk scene. Lead singer Johnson had played bass with Big in Japan and had also released two solo singles. Local musicians Peter Gill (drums), Jed O'Toole (bass), and O'Toole's cousin Brian Nash (guitar) initially joined Johnson, calling themselves the Sons of Egypt. This line-up secured a number of small local gigs before disbanding. The group was reprised when Johnson joined Mark O'Toole (bass) and Peter ""Ped"" Gill"
"on Pye in the mid-1960s, one of which – ""Your Loving Ways"" – was written by the group. The Vikings (British band) The Vikings, also known as Keith Powell & the Vikings or Carl Wayne & the Vikings, were an English rock group from Birmingham, notable for including at various times Carl Wayne, Chris 'Ace' Kefford and Bev Bevan, who would later become founders of The Move. The Vikings started as a skiffle group in the Nechells district of Birmingham in the spring of 1957, formed by Terry Wallace and his friends George Jenkins, John ""Bango"" Badrick,Allan Compton and Terry"
"in the UK. It features 54 Liverpool number 1 UK chart hits since 1952, and also incorporates an award winning musical themed seat. The wall is dominated by The Beatles, who have 17 discs thereon. Liverpool Wall of Fame The Liverpool Wall of Fame on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, in front of the Cavern Club is a litany of, and a tribute to, the groups which played at the original Cavern Club, including acts from the city which have reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. The wall also features a disc for every Liverpool musical act that had"
"new club, New Cabaret Artists' Club, that Philips and Williams opened in 1960, and he helped with their first visit to Hamburg in 1960. He was in favour of adding percussion to their four-guitar band and Pete Best joined John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe in August 1960. Philips drove the Beatles to Hamburg in a Volkswagen van. En route, they were photographed together at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. He performed as Lord Woodbine on the same stage as the Beatles at their first performance in Hamburg in August 1960. Philips became the manager of another Liverpool"
"The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history, integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the group later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. Led by"
"as in Liverpool´s Cavern Club. He was backed by the German musicians Manfred Jung (bass), Jürgen Pfingst (lead guitar), Dr.Joachim Wagner (rhythm guitar) and Raimund Jung (drums). The backing group from Cologne, Germany, still performs as Ian's Zodiacs and as The Roaring Fourties, and is also well known in Liverpool. In the 1990s, the band's albums were re-released by the Repertoire label. Five of the group's tracks, ""Beechwood"", ""It Ain't Necessarily So"", ""Secret Love"", ""Let's Turkey Trot"", and ""You Can Think Again"", have also appeared on the 1989 compilation album, ""This Is MerseyBeat"". A greatest hits album called ""Wade in"
"Carl Wayne Carl Wayne (born Colin David Tooley; 18 August 1943 - 31 August 2004) was an English singer and actor. He is best remembered as the lead singer of The Move in the 1960s. Born in Winson Green, Birmingham, England, Colin David Tooley grew up in the Hodge Hill district of the city. Inspired by the American rock'n'roll of Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, he formed the G-Men in the late 1950s, and joined local band the Vikings, where his powerful baritone and pink stage suit helped make them one of the leading rock groups in the"
"their 1997 reformation, the Quarrymen have recorded three albums, consisting mostly of covers of 1950s rock and skiffle. The Quarrymen The Quarrymen (also written as ""the Quarry Men"") were a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several schoolfriends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended. Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, taught her son to play the banjo and then showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their"
"of the 20th century and publicising his album, ""Run Devil Run"", with backing musicians David Gilmour, Mick Green, Ian Paice and Pete Wingfield. The Beatles at The Cavern Club The Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool was the venue where the Beatles' (formerly known as the Quarrymen) UK popularity started. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best were first seen by Brian Epstein at the club. Epstein eventually became their manager, going on to secure them a record contract. Best was replaced by Ringo Starr on 16 August 1962, which upset many Beatles fans. After taunts"
"often visited the Jacaranda club, its owner, Allan Williams, arranged for the photograph to be taken, subsequently taking over from Sutcliffe to book concerts for the group: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe. The Beatles' subsequent name change came during an afternoon in the Renshaw Hall bar when Sutcliffe, Lennon, and Lennon's girlfriend, Cynthia Powell, thought up names similar to Holly's band, the Crickets, and came up with Beetles. Lennon later changed the name because he thought it sounded French, suggesting ""Le Beat"" or ""Beat-less"". Sutcliffe's playing style was elementary, mostly sticking to root notes of chords. Harry—an art school friend"
"succession of other Liverpool groups. He played with and produced in the Pete Burns band Nightmares in Wax, recording one single ""Black Leather"", and worked with Factory Records to produce the single ""We Love The Moon"" and the album, ""The Project"" with The Royal Family and the Poor. In 1980, Reynolds formed a new band, Frankie Goes To Hollywood with Holly Johnson, BF Tin and Steve Lovell. The name is a matter of contention; Johnson wanted to call the band Hollycost, Reynolds disagreed, Johnson responded ""we could call it anything""; his eyes then drifted to a poster on the wall"
"Mob, a conceptual band named after a gang mentioned in William Burroughs' novel 'Nova Express'. Recruiting punk friend Pete Griffiths and future Siouxsie and the Banshees's drummer Budgie, the Nova Mob were goaded into headlining at Liverpool's top punk club, Eric's. The show was a disaster according to observers and Budgie left to join Big in Japan, at which point the band split up. Julian Cope briefly formed an experimental group called The Hungry Types, and then formed Uh? with Ian McCulloch and McCulloch's school friend Dave Pickett. McCulloch left after the band's first and only gig. Cope and McCulloch"
"John Coffey (band) John Coffey was a Dutch punk rock/post-hardcore band from Utrecht. John Coffey is influenced by bands such as Refused, Every Time I Die and The Ghost of a Thousand. The band name is a reference to the character John Coffey from the movie The Green Mile (1999) by Frank Darabont, based on the six-book series by Stephen King. The band gained a lot of interest when a video and gif went viral of the singer catching a beer while he was standing on the crowd. In the autumn of 2008 the band recorded its debut album ""Vanity"""
"Leagues' single largest league match attendance, with 33,079 against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 13 April 2009. Derby's celebrity supporters include actor Robert Lindsay, One Direction singer Niall Horan, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon The Gaslight Anthem guitarist Alex Rosamilia adult film star Keiran Lee and actor Jack O'Connell. It has been reported that O'Connell has persuaded other celebrities to support the club, including actors George Clooney and Angelina Jolie, and model Cara Delevingne. Derby's primary rival clubs are Nottingham Forest, Leicester City and Leeds United, with Forest, based in Nottingham, 14 miles east of Derby, being by far the fiercest rivals; a"
"their name from the building where they rehearsed – Deaf School. Deaf School became the spark that ignited a creative, musical explosion in Liverpool which had seen scant original musical output since The Beatles. During two years of tour management with Deaf School, Testi formed an alliance with Roger Eagle. The two first met in the 1960s at the Magic Village in Manchester. Together they established Eric's Club in Mathew Street, Liverpool in 1976. The first band to play was Deaf School, followed by many of the leading acts of the day: The Stranglers, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, The"