Today's Beatles Browbeat over at Slate asks the question "
what the hell WAS the Merseybeat?":
But what was that sound? If you asked the Beatles and their
similarly-coiffed and -clad young friends at the time, they probably
wouldn’t have had a good answer. These bands might have shared outfits
and haircuts and an early affection for skiffle music,
but was their sound really so distinctive? After all, much of their
repertoire consisted of covers by rock, R&B, and doo-wop acts (their
harmonies were often inspired by the latter). Lennon himself would
later say, “We don’t think there is such a thing as the Mersey Sound. … It just so happened we came from Liverpool and they looked for the nearest river and named it.”
Previous Beatles in real-time 50 years ago stuff
HERE.
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