Sixties City - Bill Harry's Sixties - articles from the creator of iconic 60s music paper Mersey Beat


Sixties City presents a wide-ranging series of articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic 60s music paper Mersey Beat

Sixties City is very pleased to be able to bring you this wonderful and widely varied series of Sixties and early Seventies-related articles penned by Bill Harry, creator of the iconic Sixties music newspaper 'Mersey Beat', from the point of view of a person who was at the epicentre of the Sixties music scene. In addition to the fascinating story of the birth of his own publication, currently for viewing are the following articles, written by Bill with supporting graphics by Sixties City, providing information from his unique insight into all aspects of Sixties people, events, media and music. latest article added 31st October 2024

Due to the large number of articles (244) available, these have now been grouped
into various general 'categories' for your convenience.

Films, Film People, Places, Events, Musicals, Fashion, Politics, Art, Printed Media, The Music Industry, Pop Groups, The Story Behind The Song, Elvis Presley, Television Productions, Solo Pop Artists, Television Music, Elvis Films, Interviews and Book Reviews

FILMS	FILM PEOPLE (contd)	POP GROUPS	ELVIS PRESLEY	ELVIS PRESLEY FILMS
The Magic Christian	Barbara Steele	Rory Storm & The Hurricanes	Elvis - Elvis and Pets	Love Me Tender
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush	Sean Connery as 007	Joey Dee and The Starliters	Elvis - Elvis and Women	Loving You
Blindman (1971)	Brigitte Bardot	Billy J.Kramer and The Dakotas		Jailhouse Rock
Born To Boogie (1972)	Carol White	Mersey Groups of The 1960s		King Creole
Lisztomania (1975)	Elizabeth Montgomery	The Doors	TELEVISION NON-MUSIC PRODUCTIONS	G.I. Blues
The Films of Roger Corman	Marilyn Monroe	The Undertakers	The Champions	Flaming Star
The Top 80 Sixties Films	Shirley Eaton	The Remo Four	A for Andromeda	Wild In The Country
Hammer Horror	MISCELLANEOUS PEOPLE	The Spinners	The Andromeda Breakthrough	Change of Habit
Hammer Scream Queens	Lobsang Rampa	Johnny Kidd and The Pirates	That Was The Week That Was	The Trouble With Girls
Repulsion		Ian and The Zodiacs	Cathy Come Home	Follow That Dream
Alphaville	PLACES	The Monkees	All My Loving	Kid Galahad
Some People	The Blue Angel Club	The Dennisons	The Avengers	Girls! Girls! Girls!
A Hard Day's Night	Lathom Hall, Seaforth	The Mojos	The Time Tunnel	It Happened at The Worlds Fair
Performance	EVENTS	The Fourmost	Man In A Suitcase	Fun in Acapulco
Wonderwall	Altamont 1969	The Searchers	Land Of The Giants	Kissin' Cousins
Help!	The Concert for Bangla Desh (1971)	Badfinger	Bewitched	Viva Las Vegas!
The Young Ones	Summer Of Love 1967	Too Morrow	Batman	Girl Happy
Let It Be	The Birth of 'The Twist'	Gerry and The Pacemakers	Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons	Tickle Me
How I Won The War	Bed - Ins For Peace	The Vernons Girls	The Fugitive	Harum Scarum
Tonite, Let's All Make Love In London		The Big Three	Adam Adamant Lives!	Frankie & Johnny
Expresso Bongo	MUSICALS	The Chants	Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In	Easy Come, Easy Go
Privilege	Maggie May - The Musical	The Swinging Blue Jeans	SOLO POP ARTISTS	Double Trouble
I've Gotta Horse	Hair - The Musical	The Shangri-Las	Frankie Vaughan	Clambake
Doctor Zhivago	FASHION	The Mersey Beats	Kathy Kirby	Live A Little, Love A Little
Cleopatra	Rudi Gernreich	Faron's Flamingos	John Leyton	Charro!
The Misfits	Twiggy	The Shadows and The Beatles	Jim Reeves	Elvis - That's The Way It Is
It's Trad, Dad!	Jean Shrimpton	Arrival	Marianne Faithfull	Elvis - Elvis On Tour
Bye Bye Birdie	Jane Asher	Deaf School (1974)	Janie Jones	Elvis - The Movie
Ferry Cross The Mersey	Biba	Freddie and The Dreamers	Bobby Darin	MISCELLANEOUS INTERVIEWS AND BOOK REVIEWS
The Girl Can't Help It	POLITICS		David Garrick	Steve Marriott Interview
Candy	Francis Gary Powers		Adam Faith	Barry Gibb Interview 1967
To Sir With Love	Alexander Dubcek	THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG	Dion	Keith West Interview - King of Kings Road
Groupie Girl	Che Guevara	Unchained Melody	Cilla Black	Beatleness - Candy Leonard
Alice's Restaurant		It's Now Or Never	Billy Fury	Reincarnation with John
Across The Universe (2007)	ART	Waterloo Sunset	Del Shannon	The Cutting Edge - Leslie Cavendish
Tommy - The Movie (1975)	Andy Warhol	Electric Ladyland	Petula Clark	Chris Farlowe interview
Caveman (Ringo Starr - 1981)	Vladimir Tretchikoff - 'The Chinese Girl'	All Things Must Pass	Ken Dodd	A Gallery To Play To - Phil Bowen
The Sound Of Music	Peter Blake	Magical Mystery Tour	Dusty Springfield	Teenagers Guide To The Beatles - Zane Lalani
2001 : A Space Odyssey	David Bailey	Penny Lane	Jet Harris	Shake It Up Baby! - Norman Jopling
FILM PEOPLE		Blue Suede Shoes	Cliff Richard	Break Every Rule - Tina Turner interview
Linda Thorson	PRINTED MEDIA	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Sandie Shaw	Scott Walker interview 1968
Gabrielle Drake	Nell Dunn	Telstar	Johnny Gentle	Dave Davies interview 1967
Sidney James	Dennis Wheatley	Annie's Song (1974)	Frankie Laine	Nowhere Man - Author Robert Rosen interview
Terence Stamp	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Peggy Sue	Lynne Randell	Before The Beatles Were Famous - Alan Graham
Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee	Adam Diment	Apache	TELEVISION MUSIC PRODUCTIONS	Last Days Of The Beatles - Ken McNab
Clint Eastwood - The Man With No Name	The Story of 'Mersey Beat'	Love Me Do - What If?	Around The Beatles	Cradle Of Rock - Neil Foster interview
Ann-Margret	Hank Janson	Layla (1970)	Six-Five Special	Ticket To Ride - Graham Sclater
Bruce Lee	Jackie Magazine	My Sweet Lord (1971)	Lift Off! Pop TV Series	Saint John Lennon - Daniel Hartwell interview
Jane Fonda	Girl Magazine	Move It! (1958)	Pop Go The Sixties	Lionel Ritchie interview - Dancing on the Ceiling
Diana Rigg		When The Saints Go Marching In	Pan's People	Paddy Shennan - The Talk of Liverpool
Judy Geeson	THE MUSIC INDUSTRY	You'll Never Walk Alone	Gadzooks! Its All Happening	Alan Price Talks of Death and Religion
Suzy Kendall	Jack Good		The Music of Lennon & McCartney	Dave Dee Interview 1966
Frankie Avalon	Alan Freed			Roy Adams - Hard Nights - My Life In Liverpool Clubland
Sophia Loren	Larry Parnes			Bill Harry - The John Lennon Encyclopaedia
Ingrid Pitt	Brian Epstein			Here Comes The Sun - Joshua M. Greene

Bill Harry attended the Liverpool College of Art with Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon and made the arrangements for Brian Epstein to visit The Cavern, where he saw The Beatles for the first time. Bill was a member of 'The Dissenters' and the founder and editor of 'Mersey Beat', the iconic weekly music newspaper that documented the early Sixties music scene in the Liverpool area and is possibly best known for being the first periodical to feature a local band called 'The Beatles'. He has worked as a high powered publicist, doing PR for acts such as Suzi Quatro, Free, The Arrows and Hot Chocolate and has managed press campaigns for record labels such as CBS, EMI, Polydor. Bill is the critically acclaimed author of a large number of books about The Beatles and the 60s era including 'The Beatles Who's Who', 'The Best Years of the Beatles' and the Fab Four's 'Encyclopedia' series. He has appeared on 'Good Morning America' and has received a Gold Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

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