Bill Harry
Bill Harry founded the legendary Mersey Beat and later worked as a press officer for acts such as Led Zeppelin.
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The Yardbirds: Bill Harry's Pop Talk: The Yardbirds
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 20 May 1967
KEITH RELF, Chris Dreja and Jimmy Page are quite angry about the continuous, almost hysterical attacks the pop world has been receiving from all directions ...
The Rascals: The Young Rascals' Peace Tour...
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
HAD A CALL from Felix Cavaliere, organist with The Young Rascals during his recent short visit here. He told me: "I'm only here for forty-eight ...
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 11 February 1967
A peep into the studio where The Easybeats are cutting the follow-up to 'Friday On My Mind' ...
Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett: Atlantic '67
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 24 December 1966
FRANK FENTER is a tall, tanned, talkative South African who has a way of expression with his hands that would do credit to an Italian. ...
Bonzo Dog Band: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: The Bonzo's Humanoid Machines
Profile and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 11 November 1967
THE HUGE starship from Alpha Centuri entered the Solar System and Computer XII directed it to the third planet from the sun. The expedition scanned ...
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 14 October 1967
AT THE moment Cat Stevens could no doubt walk around the West End for hours and not be recognised. Not that he doesn't have a ...
Don Covay: Quotes by Don Covay
Profile and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 21 January 1967
DON COVAY burst on the music scene as a singer in the U.S. in 1964 with a self-penned smash hit called 'Mercy Mercy'. As a ...
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 16 July 1966
AS FAR AS I'm concerned, JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE and RINGO are friends of mine. We've worked together and helped each other in the past and ...
The Animals: Insight: Chas Chandler
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 16 July 1966
I TRY TO be as basically honest as I can be... but because of the business I have to tell some lies and I always ...
Billy Fury: Billy Meets Billy – And Fury's Still A Liverpool Boy At Heart!
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 1 November 1962
BILLY HATTON, bass guitarist with the Four Mosts, was re-united with a friend whom he had not seen for two years. The meeting took place ...
Live Review by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
Beatles in Action ...
Freddie Starr & the Midnighters: Joe Meek and Merseybeat
Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 23 May 1963
Meek Records Midnighters First Disc ...
Mary Wells: A Beatle Number for Mary?
Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
WITH A Jackie Wilson album on her portable record player, Mary Wells was relaxing in her dressing room when we visited her. ...
Inez & Charlie Foxx, The Mojos, The Rolling Stones: Four Days in Liverpool For the Stones
Report by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 24 September 1964
LAST WEEK the Rolling Stones were in Liverpool for four days. With a show in Liverpool, Chester, Manchester and Wigan. They based themselves at the ...
Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
BRAND NEW Searcher Frank Allen described to us some of the excitement he felt on his first worldwide trip with the group shortly before he ...
Profile by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 February 1962
IT IS A well known fact that the Dominos were the first rock group to appear on Merseyside (at least this is the view shared ...
The Beatles: Beatles' Triumphant Return Home
Report by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 16 July 1964
Liverpool Airport — 5pm ...
The Beatles: Pete Best: The Other Beatle
Profile by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 1 August 1963
'Moody and Magnificent' they said — 'He was the Great Attraction'. Fans went wild over him. He was... The Other Beatle ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Bag O'Nails, London
Live Review by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 21 January 1967
Club scene ...
The Action, The Koobas, Sharon Tandy: Bill Harry's Pop Talk: Sharon Tandy, the Action and the Koobas
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 5 August 1967
SHARON TANDY SOUTH AFRICAN female artiste SHARON TANDY had been singing with a band in S.A. for a few years when she was discovered by FRANK ...
Report by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 20 April 1963
By BILL HARRY, Editor of MERSEY BEAT ...
Dave Berry: Dave in the lion's cage
Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 12 March 1966
THE HUGE roar was not the sound of the Spion Kop, it was the sound of Stevie Winwood tearing his way through a crowd of ...
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