"World—And Listen To Everything in It: Brian Epstein of NEMS"". Epstein saw numerous posters around Liverpool advertising concerts by the Beatles as well as in the second issue of ""Mersey Beat"", which had ""Beatles sign Recording Contract!"" on the front cover, as the Beatles had recorded the ""My Bonnie"" single with Tony Sheridan in Germany. Some months after its release, Epstein supposedly (as stated in his biography), asked his assistant Alistair Taylor about the single, because a customer, one Raymond Jones, had asked Epstein for the single on 28 October 1961, which made Epstein curious about the group. Harry and"
"Mersey Beat Mersey Beat was a music publication in Liverpool, England in the early 1960s. It was founded by Bill Harry, who was one of John Lennon's classmates at Liverpool Art College. The paper carried news about all the local Liverpool bands, and stars who came to town to perform. The Beatles had a close association with ""Mersey Beat"", which carried many exclusive stories and photos of them. It also published several of Lennon's early writings, including a history of the band, and occasional comical classified advertisements by him as space filler. A fellow student, John Ashcroft, introduced Harry to"
"only wrote articles about current chart hits and artists. Photographer Dick Matthews, a friend from the Jacaranda, heard about Harry's problems with Leach and introduced Harry to a local civil servant, Jim Anderson, who lent Harry £50. This enabled Harry to found ""Mersey Beat"" in 1961. Harry decided to publish the newspaper every two weeks, covering the music scene in Liverpool, Wirral, Birkenhead, New Brighton, Crosby and Southport, as well as Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. He thought up the name ""Mersey Beat"" by thinking about a policeman's 'beat' (the area of duty), which had nothing to do with a musical"
"""Daily Mail"": ""Liverpool is like New Orleans at the turn of the century, but with rock 'n' roll instead of jazz"". He also wrote to the ""Liverpool Echo"" about the emerging Liverpool music scene, but neither paper was interested in stories about music that was popular with teenagers. The classified ads in the ""Liverpool Echo"" for local groups were always under the heading of ""Jazz"", but the paper refused to change this policy, despite pleas from the promoters and groups who actually paid for them. Harry planned to produce a jazz newspaper called ""Storyville/52nd Street"" and contacted Sam Leach, the"
"see what was really happening with the music scene, but not one record company sent an A&R representative to Liverpool. Journalist Nancy Spain once wrote an article for the ""News of the World"" newspaper, stating that ""Bill and Virginia Harry were Mr. & Mrs. Mersey Beat"", and when Bob Dylan visited Liverpool to appear at the Odeon, he specifically asked for Harry to act as his guide to the city. On 13 September 1964, Epstein approached Harry to create a national music paper, so Harry coined the name ""Music Echo"", and gradually merged ""Mersey Beat"" into it. Epstein had promised"
"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 Daily Mail"": ""Liverpool is like New Orleans at the turn of the century, but with rock ‘n’ roll instead of jazz"". He also wrote to ""The Liverpool Echo"" about the emerging Liverpool music scene, but neither paper was interested in stories about music that was popular with teenagers. The classified ads in ""The Liverpool Echo"" for local groups were always under the heading of ""Jazz"", but the"
"paid for classified ads, and arranged for Harry and his future wife's first photographs together. Splitting the price of the newspaper (three pence), with retailers, Harry arranged for three major wholesalers, W.H. Smith, Blackburn's, and Conlan's, to sell ""Mersey Beat"". Harry personally delivered copies to more than 20 newsagents as well as to local venues and musical instrument and record stores, such as Cramer & Lea, Rushworth & Draper, and Cranes. The paper released its first edition on 6 July 1961, selling out all 5,000 copies. The paper's circulation increased rapidly as Harry started featuring stories about groups in Manchester,"
"Harry (newspaper) Harry was an underground newspaper founded and edited by Michael Weiss, Doug Wanken, Michael Carliner and Tom D'Antoni and published biweekly in Baltimore, Maryland from 1969 to 1972. A total of at least 41 issues were published, with an average circulation of 6,000 to 8,000 copies. P. J. O'Rourke, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, was a regular contributor and one of its editors. The publication was named by Michael Weiss's son after his grandfather. 'Harry' seemed an appropriate verb for the paper's mission. The newspaper published in a 20-page black and white tabloid format, with news"
"Conlan's, to sell ""Mersey Beat"". Harry personally delivered copies to more than 20 newsagents as well as to local venues and musical instrument and record stores, such as Cramer & Lea, Rushworth & Draper and Cranes. The paper released its first edition on 6 July 1961, selling out all 5,000 copies. The paper's circulation increased rapidly as Harry started featuring stories about groups in Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle, with circulation growing to 75,000. As the newspaper's sales rose, it became known as the ""Teenagers Bible"". Local groups were soon being called ""beat groups"", and venues started advertising concerts as"
"Liverpool poets The Liverpool Poets are a number of influential 1960s poets from Liverpool, England, influenced by 1950s Beat poetry. They were involved in the 1960s Liverpool scene that gave rise to The Beatles. Their work is characterised by its directness of expression, simplicity of language, suitability for live performance and concern for contemporary subjects and references. There is often humour, but the full range of human experience and emotion is addressed. The poets most commonly associated with this label are Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. They were featured in a 1967 book ""The Liverpool Scene"" edited by"
"and its alumni eventually playing a pivotal role in the culture of both Australia and Britain. An important line of demarcation for ""Honi"" came in the 1960s with editors Richard Walsh and Peter Grose's premature resignation to found ""Oz"" magazine, a humorous publication in Australia and (later) Britain which came into conflict with legal authorities in both countries. However, ""Oz"" did play a strong role in defining the comedic and radical sensibilities of future generations of ""Honi"". ""Honi"" became intricately associated with the Sydney Push during the 1960s, turning its focus from arts to politics for the first time, and"
"University. In 1954, when he was still a 17-year-old sixth-form schoolboy, he landed his first regular freelance writing job as pop-rock record reviewer for the ""Liverpool Echo"", the largest-selling provincial evening newspaper in the UK. At the beginning of the 1960s, while the Beatles worked in the Hamburg clubs, Barrow moved from Crosby to London to work for the Decca Record Company where he wrote the liner notes that appeared on the back of LP album covers. From his new London base he continued to contribute his weekly record column to the ""Liverpool Echo"" and when Liverpool record retailer Brian"
"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"
"for 35 years. The beauty is its accessibility."" Liverpool poets The Liverpool Poets are a number of influential 1960s poets from Liverpool, England, influenced by 1950s Beat poetry. They were involved in the 1960s Liverpool scene that gave rise to The Beatles. Their work is characterised by its directness of expression, simplicity of language, suitability for live performance and concern for contemporary subjects and references. There is often humour, but the full range of human experience and emotion is addressed. The poets most commonly associated with this label are Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. They were featured in"
"Liverpool's College of Art at 68 Hope Street. After studying typography and page layouts, he borrowed the college's duplicating machine and published a newspaper called ""Jazz"" in 1958, which reported concerts at the Liverpool Jazz Society club, the Temple Jazz Club and the Cavern Club. He also worked as assistant editor on University of Liverpool's charity magazine, ""Pantosphinx"", and on a music newsletter for Frank Hessy's musical instruments store called ""Frank Comments"". The title was suggested by the owner, Frank Hesselberg, as a play on his own comments, but was abandoned after a few issues. Harry received a National Diploma"
"taking place in pop music in 1966-7. These were accompanied by significant changes in 1960s youth culture, with the fashion-led teenage consumerism of the mid-1960s Swinging London era being challenged by the more reflective, less materialistic outlook of the San Francisco hippies. Peel, having had first-hand experience of the emerging hippy scene - he had seen many of the new bands and performers in California - found himself in the right place at the right time, with a parallel movement developing in London under the influence of the Beatles. The period saw the emergence of the underground papers International Times"
"in 1972. Liverpool produced a number of nationally and internationally successful popular singers in the 1950s, including traditional pop stars Frankie Vaughan and Lita Roza, and one of the most successful British rock and roll stars in Billy Fury. Many Lancashire towns had vibrant skiffle scenes in the late 1950s, out of which by the early 1960s a flourishing culture of beat groups began to emerge, particularly around Liverpool and Manchester. It has been estimated that there were around 350 bands active in and around Liverpool in this era, often playing ballrooms, concert halls and clubs, among them the Beatles."
"Pops"" boxset alongside Mark Goodier, Miles Leonard and Malcolm McLaren. He writes weekly for ""The Guardian"" and periodically for the UK trade magazine ""InPublishing"". David Hepworth David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a music journalist, writer and publishing industry analyst who has launched several successful British magazines. He was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and with Mark Ellen turned the 1980s English pop magazine ""Smash Hits"" into one of the most popular magazines of its era. Hepworth co-presented the BBC broadcast of Live Aid on 13 July 1985,"
"German anthropologist and music critic Ernest Borneman, who lived in England from 1933 to 1960, claimed to have coined the term in a column in ""Melody Maker"" magazine to describe the British imitation of American Rock'n'Roll, Rhythm and Blues and Skiffle bands. The name ""Mersey Beat"" was used for a Liverpool music magazine founded in 1961 by Bill Harry. Harry claims to have coined the term ""based on a policeman's beat and not that of the music"". The band the Pacifics were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler, MC at the Cavern Club, and in April"
"working as a press officer, Harry started a monthly magazine called ""Tracks"", which reported the latest album releases, and another magazine, ""Idols: 20th Century Legends"", which ran for 37 issues, from 1988 to 1991. Harry also compiled a 34-track compilation, ""Mersey Beat"", for Parlophone records, which was released on 31 October 1983. Harry was presented with a gold award for a 'Lifetime Achievement in Music' by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) in 1994, has taken part in over 350 international television/radio shows, and was hired by Rediffusion to be programme assistant for the documentary ""Beat City""."
"paper refused to change this policy, despite pleas from the promoters and groups who actually paid for them. Harry planned to produce a jazz newspaper called ""Storyville/52nd Street"" and contacted Sam Leach, the owner of a club called Storyville. Leach promised to fund the newspaper, but failed to turn up for three meetings with Harry, leaving him no other option but to find another investor. Harry thought starting a fortnightly newspaper covering Liverpool's rock 'n' roll music scene would be more successful, and would differ from national music newspapers such as the ""New Musical Express"" and the ""Melody Maker"", which"
"1960, followed by ""Lenny's Den"" in 1959 to 1961, and the pop music show ""Pops and Lenny"" in 1962 to 1963. In 1958 Bill Mevin created a comic strip based on ""Lenny the Lion"". Hall visited the United States in 1958, making his debut on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" with Lenny that year. Throughout the 1960s, Hall and Lenny appeared on stage in Blackpool and on television. The Beatles made one of their early TV appearances in a 1963 episode of ""Pops and Lenny"", singing ""From Me to You"" and ""Please, Please Me."" David Bowie's father, Hayward Jones, worked on"
"owner of a club called Storyville. Leach promised to fund the newspaper, but failed to turn up for three meetings with Harry, leaving him no other option but to find another investor. Harry thought starting a fortnightly newspaper covering Liverpool's rock 'n' roll music scene would be more successful, and would differ from national music newspapers such as the ""New Musical Express"" and the ""Melody Maker"", which only wrote articles about current chart hits and artists. Photographer Dick Matthews, a friend from the Jacaranda, heard about Harry's problems with Leach and introduced Harry to a local civil servant, Jim Anderson,"
"He was brought up in the Welsh town of Mold in Flintshire and went to The King's School, Chester in 1951, and then Liverpool University from 1958–61, where he obtained a degree in economics. He was a student journalist and edited the literary magazine ""Sphinx"". The magazine's covers were designed by Bill Harry who later edited ""Mersey Beat"". In Liverpool, thanks to a friendship with the London teenage pop poet Royston Ellis, he met George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatle who was a promising young artist but died of a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg in 1962. Barrell moved to"
"the first British rap and hip hop records. He managed the RAH Band and gave the first production jobs to noted DJs Paul Oakenfold and Ian Levine. In 1976, was the organiser of the first UK music industry pop quiz. He has also co-written books including ""The NME Rock ’n’ Roll Years"", ""The Guinness Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music"", ""The NME Who’s Who of Rock"", ""Guinness Rockopedia"", ""The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music"", ""The Virgin Ultimate Rock Encyclopedia"", ""This Day in Rock"", ""The Virgin Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music"". In addition he has compiled/sequenced/written sleeve notes"
"had a circulation of 250,000, and for the majority of the 1960s had the biggest market share of its type. An innovation in the magazine's early years was celebrity guest editors, including Donovan, Cat Stevens, Gerry Marsden, The Kinks and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Although its focus was pop music, ""Fabulous 208"" was the first magazine of its type to cover other pop culture genres: fashion, films and television, and this later extended beyond the media to celebrity footballers such as George Best - a trend which was widely emulated in the late 60s and beyond, most"
"entertainment. Staff reporters such as Chris Welch and Ray Coleman applied a perspective previously reserved for jazz artists to the rise of American-influenced local rock and pop groups, anticipating the advent of rock critics. Among Britain's broadsheet newspapers, pop music gained exposure in the arts section of ""The Times"" when William Mann, the paper's classical music critic, wrote an appreciation of the Beatles in December 1963. In early 1965, ""The Observer"", the country's highbrow Sunday newspaper, signalled a reversal of the establishment's cultural snobbery towards pop music by appointing George Melly as its ""critic of pop culture"". Following Tony Palmer's"
"in newspaper fashion pages. Boyd and Harrison were among the leading couples in the Swinging London era, when, according to a 1966 article in the ""Daily Express"", ""actors, pop singers, hairdressers, and models"" were London's new ""privileged class"". UK underground writer Barry Miles later described her as ""by far the most glamorous"" of all the Beatles' wives and girlfriends, while author Shawn Levy writes that, even more so than Jane Asher, the London-born stage actress who was Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the 1960s, Boyd epitomised what ""sixties stardom was meant to confer upon its chosen"". Writing in 1966,"
"Bull"" was a weekly magazine, originally published in the UK from the late 1940s to the early 1960s by Odhams Press, with cover illustrations which epitomized middle-class English life of the time. In many ways it mirrored the iconic cover artwork of its American equivalent, ""The Saturday Evening Post"". All of the iconic 20th century brands are represented in the collection including Coca-Cola, Heinz, Nike, Apple, Cadillac, and Chanel as well as thousands of lesser known brands and marketing failures. The collection also features magazine cover artwork and includes the work of famous illustrators such as Norman Rockwell and J."
"The Saturday Press (literary newspaper) The Saturday Press was the name of a literary weekly newspaper, published in New York from 1858 to 1860 and again from 1865 to 1866, edited by Henry Clapp, Jr. Clapp, nicknamed the ""King of Bohemia"" and credited with importing the term ""bohemianism"" to the U.S, was a central part of the antebellum New York literary and art scene. Today he is perhaps best known for his spotlighting of Walt Whitman, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Ada Clare – all habitués of the bohemian watering hole named Pfaff's beer cellar – in ""The Saturday Press"". Clapp intended"
"to publish whatever he liked (under the pseudonym of ""Beatcomber"", which was appropriated from a ""Daily Express"" column, ""Beachcomber""). Harry convinced Epstein to sell 12 copies of the first ""Mersey Beat"" newspaper at his North End Music Stores (NEMS), which sold out in one day, resulting in Epstein having to order more copies. After ordering and selling 144 copies of the second issue, Epstein invited Harry to his office for a glass of sherry, proposing the idea that he (Epstein), should write a record review column. It was published in the third issue on 3 August 1961, entitled ""Stop the"
"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"
"1966 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"