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.
5 articles
List of articles in the library
The Beatles: My City: Keith's Wine Bar
Memoir by Spencer Leigh, Liverpool Echo, March 2023
IN THE LATE 1990s Bob Wooler, the former Cavern DJ, used to live off Lark Lane, and I would meet him every Saturday at Keith's ...
The Beatles, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Hello Me Ol' Mateys: the BBC's Saturday Club
Retrospective by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, March 2006
Spencer Leigh returns to the BBC Written Archives for an appraisal of Saturday Club. ...
Lee Hazlewood: "Compared To My Dad, I'm A Soprano"
Retrospective and Interview by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, February 2005
"I don't have to run if I want to stay, I don't have to do what the people say, I found my place ...
Jack Jackson: Ooh… It's Saturday!
Retrospective by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, December 2014
Spencer Leigh on a forgotten hero, the radio DJ, Jack Jackson ...
Obituary by Spencer Leigh, The Guardian, 11 January 2023
Singer and guitarist with the Dominoes, Merseybeat rivals to the Beatles in the early 1960s ...
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