Spencer Leigh

Spencer Leigh was born in Liverpool in 1945. He has written regularly for Country Music People, In Tune, Now Dig This, Record Collector and hundreds of obituaries for The Independent.  He has been writing books regularly since 1974, most recently a series of rock biographies for McNidder and Green including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Buddy Holly and next, Little Richard.

His most recent book, The Road To Love Me Do, was written with Mike Jones and is the first book to have QR codes for all the music. It tells the story of Merseybeat up to October 1962.

He presented "On The Beat" on BBC Radio Merseyside for 37 years. His special series include Let’s Go Down The Cavern (1981) a 12-parter which told the stories of the other Mersey groups.

He has written the notes for over 500 albums and CDs, getting to No.1 with The Best Of Heartbeat, although of course nobody bought it for the sleeve notes.

Many of his programmes can be heard through the British Library and Liverpool Central Libraries websites.