'Mersey Beat', the Beginnings of the Beatles
Author : Bill Harry
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Rock groups
ISBN : 9780860014157
Author : Bill Harry
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Rock groups
ISBN : 9780860014157
Author : Michael Brogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
A different kind of police history, this book tells the story from below -- from the rank and file officers trapped between the authoritarian dictates of their superiors and a realistically distrustful public. Historically, the major police mission has been to keep the streets clean of any group (young people, vagrants, bookies) that challenged by their presence and demeanor the moral mandate of policing. According to this oral testimony, police work in Britain was traditionally one of "policing strangers by strangers." Recent accounts of "community policing" have no historical pedigree. This account of between-the-war policing dicusses the effects of the Police Strike of 1919 on its participants, considers the ramifications of policework on family life, and documents the tedium of lonely beat work. It discusses the relationship between City Police, industrial workers and ethnic minorities, and recounts in individual testimony police interaction with bookies and prostitutes and the pettiness of CID work. This in-depth study will be of interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, history, and police studies.
Author : Spencer Leigh.
Publisher : McNidder and Grace Limited
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857160982
This is the story of the Cavern Club - the most famous club in the world. The Cavern saw the birth of the Beatles and Merseybeat, and more. Respected author, music journalist and Merseybeat historian Spencer Leigh - with a little help from Sir Paul McCartney, who provides the Foreword - tells the Cavern's history by talking to the owners, hundreds of musicians who played at the club, the backroom staff and fans. Spencer paints a vivid picture of the Cavern, from its days as a jazz club, through the Beatles years to the present
Author : Anthony Hogan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1445656337
The complete inside story of one of the biggest bands of the Merseybeat era.
Author : Bill Harry
Publisher : Trinity Mirror Sport Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781906802042
Highly-respected author Bill Harry goes on the record with his unique inside knowledge of the Liverpool music scene.
Author : M. Kuhlmann
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781588502018
An updated and revised version of The sound with the pound.
Author : Derek Shelmerdine
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780993589409
Author : Marion Leonard
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 184631190X
In 2001 the Guinness Book of Records declared Liverpool the “City of Pop” for producing more hit records than any other city. The Beat Goes On is a historical account of popular music in Liverpool that explores the contextual, creative, and geographical factors that have contributed to the city’s status as a major center of musical creativity. With contributions from experts in popular music history, cultural geography, ethnography, and musicology, alongside essays and interviews with Liverpool musicians and rare archival images, this volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the city’s unique place in the realm of popular music.
Author : Roag Best
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312319267
Profiles the Casbah club and its owner, Mona Best. Looks at the Mersey beat music scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Author : Bill Harry
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive book about Paul McCartney ever written. By best-selling author and Beatles expert Bill Harry, this A-Z of over half a million words will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about one of the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century. What is the truth behind his relationship with Yoko Ono? What was George Harrison's attitude toward him? Why did he decide to dissolve the Beatles? Did he and John Lennon come to a reconciliation? What was his opinion about taking LSD? What was Paul's life like behind bars in Japan? Why has his former council house become a shrine? With almost 2000 entries covering his family history from birth, his many love affairs, his opinions about drugs, his songs, records, concerts and honours bestowed upon him over the years, together with a full discography and bibliogaphy, this book is packed with new material and unique insights into the life of Paul McCartney. Over 2000 seperate entries and 500,000 words make this the definitive book on Paul McCartney. Bill Harry is the leading authority on the Beatles and founder of the music paper Mersey Beat, that helped launch the Beatles.