2 - Episode 2 - The Merseybeats

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2 - Episode 2 - The Merseybeats

Part 2 – The Merseybeats, Tuesday 26 July 1988 and repeated Wednesday I always enjoy seeing the Merseybeats on 60s tours: they have a good sound and good stage personalities with two original members, Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley, in the front line. Their ‘Live And Let Die’ with pyrotechnics is great fun but apparently they have to have the local fire officer around before they perform it. They are possibly the most Scouse of all Liverpool bands; just listen to “Wear your hair just for her” in ‘Wishin’ and Hopin’’. This brief programme shows how good they were – mastering the two-and-a-half minute single where you made your point and got out. They moved with the times and their first version of ‘Sorrow’, sadly unreleased, showed their progress towards a heavier sound. This show from 1988 also indicated that they were heading in a wrong direction but those megamixes, starting with Jive Bunny, were making the charts. Unreleased Merseybeat. ‘Goodbye’ – The Kinsleys Unreleased Merseybeat. ‘Sorrow’ – The Merseys (Original version with Jack Bruce, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Clem Cattini) On CD with OTB 0145, Part 1

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