Music from the Mersey | The story of pop music in Liverpool
Dancing in the Rubble
Mersey Beat is dead: so says Liverpool's new generation of musicians.
CHANNEL | Radio 4
FIRST BROADCAST | 29 October 1982
DURATION | 43 minutes 45 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1982
Synopsis
Pete Fulwell, co-founder of Eric's nightclub, documents the second wave of Liverpool music and the cultural, political and social influences of the early 1980s that fuelled it. The story includes major and minor artists of the time, from Echo and the Bunnymen and Wah! to Cook Da Books and Send No Flowers, and illustrates how this second generation's music rejected the legacy of The Beatles.
Did you know?
Peter Hooton, who is interviewed here as co-editor of fanzine 'The End', later formed pop band The Farm, whose biggest hit, 'All Together Now', featured backing vocals from Pete Wylie.
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1960s | 1980s | Entertainment | Liverpool | Merseyside | Music | Urban Life | Youth
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