The one-hour documentary - which was shown at the city centre venue yesterday evening - chronicles the story of the Liverpool men who introduced the music and fashions of America that became the basis of the
Mersey Beat era.
He went on to act in The Bill and
Mersey Beat TV shows - and starred with Robin Askwith in 1974 sex comedy film Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
The boys are currently in the studio laying down their first EP, and are filling the summer with festival bookings , live dates, plus appearance at Madness's 'House of fun weekender' in the bag for November, things are moving in the right direction for this
Mersey beat four.
(ANGEL AIR) JACKIE Lomax was the lead vocalist and bass player in The Undertakers, the rockingest, stompingest
Mersey Beat band of them all from the early Sixties.
We both felt the time was right to launch a night of this type, as soul music is ubiquitous with the city, with the famous
Mersey Beat sound having its roots firmly planted in the early R&B and Tamla Motown scenes."
"This is totally out of order and will be depressing millions of Lennon fans," the Daily Star quoted Bill Harry, founder of the
Mersey Beat newspaper in Liverpool, as saying.
In the official publication of the PFA, one of the lead articles is
Mersey Beat, charting John Barnes feeling right at home as the new manager of Tranmere.
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"I did three series of
Mersey Beat, three series of Casualty, and have done three series of Heartbeat, so three seems to be my lucky number."
The chance to spend a day on the set of
Mersey Beat and a day at Channel 4 with John Francome were among the prizes.
The
Mersey Beat actress, a target of ridicule since her lip-implant surgery last summer, had to use hand signals to explain the problem.
FORMER Hollyoaks star Joanna Taylor may not make the most gainly of entrances in
Mersey Beat, when her character gets involved in a car-park brawl with another woman.