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Mathew Street Festival Rocks On
The world famous Mathew Street Festival, coinciding with Liverpool's Beatles Week and the Cavern's 50th birthday, was threatened with cancellation. Now it's been saved.
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The Beatles: The Early Years in Europe
The Beatles group member's background and their success in England.
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The British Invasion in 1960s Pop Music
A look at some of the groups and singers, besides the Beatles, who comprised the British Invasion in America.
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Liverpool Poet Brian Patten
Liverpool born poet, performer and novelist Brian Patten has been producing award winning work for adults and children since the late 1960's.
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The Brits and rock: Rockers (1963-64, Part II)
We continue our look at rock in the United Kingdom this week with a look at the other side of England's youth: the Rockers. In essence, two groups of teens dominated the English rock industry, the Mods and the Rockers. Being distinct in nearly all of their nuances, these two also preferred distinctly different groups. The Rockers adopted the Teddy Boy styles that had captured the youth before them, and, for most Rockers, the music that they received from across the ocean, rock and roll.
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British Invasion: Part II
We continue the British Invasion this week with a look at who followed the Beatles into America. The American market was one of the hardest to break into, but once the Beatles had landed, the doors were open for those who had become famous in the UK to enter rock's home grounds. "The biggest thing the Beatles did was to open the American market to all British artists," said Arthur Howes, planner of the early Beatles' tours of England. "Nobody had been able to get in before the Beatles. They alone did it. I had brought over lots of American stars, but nobody had gone over there." The All-American sound of local radio stations dissapated to reveal a new force, primarily guitar bands that wrote, sang, and played all their own pieces. The mass-production of bubble-gum pop songs was to nearly come to an end, and certainly was over in the hearts of the teens.
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