FAQs for Mersey Beat Official Website

1	I watch MTV™ all the time and I've never heard of Mersey Beat? Believe it or not, the music business didn't begin on video and the Golden Age of popular music preceded MTV by more than a decade! Incidentally, MTV's sister channel, VH1™, has featured the documentary The Story Of Mersey Beat several times and Bill Harry has been the subject of a number of VH1 interviews. The Guinness Book Of Records has also officially recognized Liverpool as the 'Capitol City Of Music', with more No. 1 records than any other city in the world.
2	Who is Bill Harry and what is his relationship to Liverpool, the Beatles and the music scene? Bill Harry attended the Liverpool College of Art with John Lennon, and founded Mersey Beat, the seminal music paper that helped launch the Beatles in the early sixties. He has been the publicist for a host of groups and artists, including Pink Floyd, the Beach Boys, Led Zepplin, Jethro Tull, and David Bowie. He is the author of thirteen books on the Beatles, and has compiled an archive on the Beatles that spans more than thirty years.
3	Don't you have to be a senior citizen to appreciate Mersey Beat? No.
4	I see a lot of the same material on Mersey Beat that I see on other websites or in books? Why? Mersey Beat is one of the most respected sources for information on the Beatles and many other Liverpool groups. The majority of the material is original and cannot be found elsewhere.
5	Can I borrow content from Mersey Beat? All content on Mersey Beat is protected by international copyrights and cannot be used elsewhere without the express written permission of Mersey Beat Ltd. However, you are welcome to use the simple copy/paste code in our Thinking of Linking? section to link to us.
6	What happened to the original Mersey Beat newspaper? It ceased publication in 1965.
7	Can I purchase original Mersey Beat cover pages featuring the Beatles and other Liverpool groups? Covers of Mersey Beat will soon be available on souvenir plaques and art prints. Plans are also underway for limited edition runs of the original editions. Please e-mail us for details.
8	Does Mersey Beat publish original work? Yes, there will be numerous specially written features in addition to the exclusive articles by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Brian Epstein and various exponents of the Liverpool Sound.
9	Is there a newsletter I can sign up for? Coming soon!
10	Where can I find out more about the Beatles and other Liverpool artists? To paraphrase John Lennon, you've got all the old records if you wanna reminisce. There are also scads of good books about the Beatles and other Liverpool groups written by Bill Harry and others who were there in the midst of it all. Additionally, there are a number of entertaining sites on the Web that offer a wealth of pictures and information.
11	How can I contact you? Contact information is available on our E-mail page.

Mersey Beat is Merseyside's own entertainment paper.