Links
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Merseybeat
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50s/60s legends
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The local scene (Italy)
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Vintage gear
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50s/60s culture
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Internet radio
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Record labels
Merseybeat
(or thereabouts)
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THE
BEATLES by Salvatore Libertino is a Beatles site with a difference...not
least because it features a huge section dedicated to Merseybeat, in addition to
stacks of info about the Fab Four.
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The first Merseybeat group to top the British
charts: Gerry
and the Pacemakers
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The Searchers,
perhaps the classiest act on sixties Merseyside.
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Jackie
Lomax and the Undertakers...nobody could belt out those R&B covers quite
like these fellows!
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"For goodness sake..." ...it's the Swinging
Blues Jeans!
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Remember the Mojos? Guitarist Nicky Crouch,
also a founding member of Faron's Flamingos, now has his own website.
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The Merseycats are a
charity association, consisting largely of members of sixties Merseybeat groups.
The association raises cash for childrens' charities.
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Carrying on the wild and rowdy traditions of sixties Merseybeat...the
Kaisers
from Edinburgh in Scotland.
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If you like early British rock & roll, you'll LOVE the Rapiers! Greg
Ogarrio,the webmaster of this excellent site,
is also
responsible for the Rapiers mailing list.
50s/60s Legends
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A wonderful site dedicated to the bucaneers of British rock & roll: Johnny
Kidd & the Pirates
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Link
Wray, the man who invented fuzztone back in the fifties?
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The Shadows, Britain's answer to the
Ventures...and every bit as prolific too!
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He's been described as "the rocker the British still pray
to on Saturday nights": the great Gene
Vincent and his Blue Caps.
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Visit the Fats Domino Pages
for the lowdown on the man who brought New Orleans R&B to popularity.
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Telstarweb
- The Joe Meek/RGM Website: everything you ever wanted to know about the
most ingenious record producer of them all.
The Local Scene (Italy)
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Italy's top Beatles tribute band: the Apple Pies
from Rome.
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The Starliters
- rockabilly/hillbilly from Milan in Northern Italy...but you'd think they were from Kentucky or Tennessee!
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Old Woogies: a
fascinating look at the neo-fifties scene in Italy.
Vintage Gear
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The
VOX Showroom: home of the Vox AC30, surely THE icon of the whole Merseybeat scene.
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Selmer
Truevoice Amplifiers - another great lesser-known British amp from the sixties.
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Here's a wonderful fan site dedicated to Hofner
guitars from Germany, a great favorite with sixties beat groups.
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Well, if Gretsch
guitars were good enough for Eddie Cochran and Duane Eddy...
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John Lennon and John Lee Hooker are two of the more famous
names associated with
Epiphone guitars.
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Burns:
legendary British guitars from the early 1960s, made popular by Hank B.
Marvin.
50s/60s Culture
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The Penny Farthing Web Page:
an in-depth
look at the
superb sixties TV series,"The Prisoner".
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The Garage:
garage bands past and present (everything from the Kinks to Man Or Astroman), e-zines, record labels, online record stores, radio stations, clubs, newsgroups, research tools, all brilliantly maintained by Steve Coleman.
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British Pop Culture in the 1960s
- British music, cinema and TV from the sixties...an essential stopping-off
point for nostalgia buffs!
Internet Radio
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"If it's got twang or fuzz or reverb...we play it"! One of
the longest-lasting Internet radio shows:
Radio
Rumpus Room, presented by Ron and Jean on KFAI Fresh Air
Radio.
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Dave The Spazz:
zany but brilliant. Dave'll spin anything from Hank Williams to the Ramones to
Laverne Baker to the Neatbeats.
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For your weekly two-hour dose of obscure (and very obscure!)
fifties R&B, blues, rock & roll, rockabilly,
hillbilly et al, go no further than
Fool's Paradise on WFMU.
Record Labels
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Larsen
Recordz: an independent label from France run by Denis Oliveres, and a real force on the
sixties/neo-sixties scene.
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Ace
- probably the finest reissue label in the world today.
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Norton:
authentic rock & roll/rockabilly (and much more besides) is the trademark of
this great label run by Bill Miller and Miriam Linna (editors of the legendary
"Kicks" magazine).
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Sundazed
offer a seemingly never-ending stream of sixties reissues. Mainly beat, surf
and psychedelia, but in recent times they've branched out to R&B and even
country.