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Liverpool Sunset: The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969
âWaterloo Sunsetâ is now regarded as the greatest song about London. It comes as a shock, then, to discover it was originally about another city altogether. Watching acts who had been huge stars just three years earlier but now couldnât buy a hit â the Searchers, Billy J Kramer, Gerry and the Pacemakers â the Kinksâ Ray Davies wrote âLiverpool Sunsetâ in sympathy.
Compiled by Saint Etienneâs Bob Stanley, with comprehensive sleeve-notes, âLiverpool Sunsetâ investigates a thrilling but overlooked era in the cityâs musical history, covering soul, R&B, psychedelia and freakbeat.
As this collection makes clear, the city was still producing new acts in the late 60s, and still making great records, it was just that the world had started looking elsewhere for its musical fix.
By 1965 the Iron Door club, once the Searchersâ Merseybeat home, was beginning to host soul all-nighters where local band the Chants were often on the bill. The Cavern was by now hosting the likes of Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder and Ben E King.
All of this music was an inspiration to the next wave of Liverpool acts such as Just Four Men, Tiffanyâs Thoughts and the Clayton Squares. The latter were so highly regarded that breaking out nationally seemed a formality: they had two singles released on Decca, a six-week stint in Hamburg, a Ready Steady Go performance, and management by both the Cavernâs owner Bob Wooler and London tough-nut Don Arden.
âLiverpool Sunsetâ also includes overlooked tracks by some of the original Merseybeat stars: Billy J Kramerâs soulful âWeâre Doing Fineâ deserves to be better known, and Cilla Blackâs
wildly odd âAbyssinian Secretâ in 1968 was considered too outrĂ© by Parlophone and ended up buried on an EP.
Adventurousness wasnât an issue. Joe Meek produced both
the Cryinâ Shames and Billy Furyâs brother Jason Eddie, while McGough and McGear had Jimi Hendrix helping out on the terrific psych-pop So âMuch To Loveâ.
Here are two dozen lost gems; 60s Liverpool classics once hidden now uncoveredâŠ
Compiled by Saint Etienneâs Bob Stanley, with comprehensive sleeve-notes, âLiverpool Sunsetâ investigates a thrilling but overlooked era in the cityâs musical history, covering soul, R&B, psychedelia and freakbeat.
As this collection makes clear, the city was still producing new acts in the late 60s, and still making great records, it was just that the world had started looking elsewhere for its musical fix.
By 1965 the Iron Door club, once the Searchersâ Merseybeat home, was beginning to host soul all-nighters where local band the Chants were often on the bill. The Cavern was by now hosting the likes of Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder and Ben E King.
All of this music was an inspiration to the next wave of Liverpool acts such as Just Four Men, Tiffanyâs Thoughts and the Clayton Squares. The latter were so highly regarded that breaking out nationally seemed a formality: they had two singles released on Decca, a six-week stint in Hamburg, a Ready Steady Go performance, and management by both the Cavernâs owner Bob Wooler and London tough-nut Don Arden.
âLiverpool Sunsetâ also includes overlooked tracks by some of the original Merseybeat stars: Billy J Kramerâs soulful âWeâre Doing Fineâ deserves to be better known, and Cilla Blackâs
wildly odd âAbyssinian Secretâ in 1968 was considered too outrĂ© by Parlophone and ended up buried on an EP.
Adventurousness wasnât an issue. Joe Meek produced both
the Cryinâ Shames and Billy Furyâs brother Jason Eddie, while McGough and McGear had Jimi Hendrix helping out on the terrific psych-pop So âMuch To Loveâ.
Here are two dozen lost gems; 60s Liverpool classics once hidden now uncoveredâŠ
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âWaterloo Sunsetâ is now regarded as the greatest song about London. It comes as a shock, then, to discover it was originally about another city altogether. Watching acts who had been huge stars just three years earlier but now couldnât buy a hit â the Searchers, Billy J Kramer, Gerry and the Pacemakers â the Kinksâ Ray Davies wrote âLiverpool Sunsetâ in sympathy.
Compiled by Saint Etienneâs Bob Stanley, with comprehensive sleeve-notes, âLiverpool Sunsetâ investigates a thrilling but overlooked era in the cityâs musical history, covering soul, R&B, psychedelia and freakbeat.
As this collection makes clear, the city was still producing new acts in the late 60s, and still making great records, it was just that the world had started looking elsewhere for its musical fix.
By 1965 the Iron Door club, once the Searchersâ Merseybeat home, was beginning to host soul all-nighters where local band the Chants were often on the bill. The Cavern was by now hosting the likes of Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder and Ben E King.
All of this music was an inspiration to the next wave of Liverpool acts such as Just Four Men, Tiffanyâs Thoughts and the Clayton Squares. The latter were so highly regarded that breaking out nationally seemed a formality: they had two singles released on Decca, a six-week stint in Hamburg, a Ready Steady Go performance, and management by both the Cavernâs owner Bob Wooler and London tough-nut Don Arden.
âLiverpool Sunsetâ also includes overlooked tracks by some of the original Merseybeat stars: Billy J Kramerâs soulful âWeâre Doing Fineâ deserves to be better known, and Cilla Blackâs
wildly odd âAbyssinian Secretâ in 1968 was considered too outrĂ© by Parlophone and ended up buried on an EP.
Adventurousness wasnât an issue. Joe Meek produced both
the Cryinâ Shames and Billy Furyâs brother Jason Eddie, while McGough and McGear had Jimi Hendrix helping out on the terrific psych-pop So âMuch To Loveâ.
Here are two dozen lost gems; 60s Liverpool classics once hidden now uncoveredâŠ
Compiled by Saint Etienneâs Bob Stanley, with comprehensive sleeve-notes, âLiverpool Sunsetâ investigates a thrilling but overlooked era in the cityâs musical history, covering soul, R&B, psychedelia and freakbeat.
As this collection makes clear, the city was still producing new acts in the late 60s, and still making great records, it was just that the world had started looking elsewhere for its musical fix.
By 1965 the Iron Door club, once the Searchersâ Merseybeat home, was beginning to host soul all-nighters where local band the Chants were often on the bill. The Cavern was by now hosting the likes of Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder and Ben E King.
All of this music was an inspiration to the next wave of Liverpool acts such as Just Four Men, Tiffanyâs Thoughts and the Clayton Squares. The latter were so highly regarded that breaking out nationally seemed a formality: they had two singles released on Decca, a six-week stint in Hamburg, a Ready Steady Go performance, and management by both the Cavernâs owner Bob Wooler and London tough-nut Don Arden.
âLiverpool Sunsetâ also includes overlooked tracks by some of the original Merseybeat stars: Billy J Kramerâs soulful âWeâre Doing Fineâ deserves to be better known, and Cilla Blackâs
wildly odd âAbyssinian Secretâ in 1968 was considered too outrĂ© by Parlophone and ended up buried on an EP.
Adventurousness wasnât an issue. Joe Meek produced both
the Cryinâ Shames and Billy Furyâs brother Jason Eddie, while McGough and McGear had Jimi Hendrix helping out on the terrific psych-pop So âMuch To Loveâ.
Here are two dozen lost gems; 60s Liverpool classics once hidden now uncoveredâŠ
